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felis_ultharusSo, first day of my vacation from school, I've taken it very easy. I've written about four and a half pages with more on the way, read a little Carl Jung. There's snow outside. Add a little green tea or white chocolate, and this day would be perfect ^_^
I'm a man of fairly simple pleasures.
Writing is going well. The runaway background-writing in my novel continues. I have about thirty pages on my main character's background which, unfortunately, is better written, more exciting, more poetic, and generally more interesting than the rest of the novel -- some of it is some of the best stuff I've read, much less written, and since I generally have a much lower opinion than others about my work, I have high hopes for it.
Weird thing was that dozens of characters stitched themselves perfectly together in hours, out of whole cloth, and one of them is one of the most interesting ever. And thing is, he's not based on anyone I've met.
Timothy Findley has compared writing to schizophrenia, because both involve listening to different voices. The difference between a hack writer and a good writer is that the hack creates characters, and the good writer's characters are born -- or summoned.
Election
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montrealais's journal probably have seen this, but it looks like the Libs are up to their usual dirty tricks. They have an election commercial where they have "average Canadians" explaining why they're voting Liberal. All of them work for the Liberal Party or Canada or have close ties to the party.
I'm a man of fairly simple pleasures.
Writing is going well. The runaway background-writing in my novel continues. I have about thirty pages on my main character's background which, unfortunately, is better written, more exciting, more poetic, and generally more interesting than the rest of the novel -- some of it is some of the best stuff I've read, much less written, and since I generally have a much lower opinion than others about my work, I have high hopes for it.
Weird thing was that dozens of characters stitched themselves perfectly together in hours, out of whole cloth, and one of them is one of the most interesting ever. And thing is, he's not based on anyone I've met.
Timothy Findley has compared writing to schizophrenia, because both involve listening to different voices. The difference between a hack writer and a good writer is that the hack creates characters, and the good writer's characters are born -- or summoned.
Election
Those of you who watch
montrealais's journal probably have seen this, but it looks like the Libs are up to their usual dirty tricks. They have an election commercial where they have "average Canadians" explaining why they're voting Liberal. All of them work for the Liberal Party or Canada or have close ties to the party.
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Date: 2005-12-13 12:35 pm (UTC)But you don't celebrate Christmas :/ oops. Maybe Shuichi does tho ^^;
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Date: 2005-12-13 02:31 pm (UTC)I celebrate Yule, which is basically Christmas re-paganized -- I'm sure if I looked it up, I'd find a pagan source even for the red hat :p
I used to resist Christmas when I first converted to Wicca. But in Montreal, it really has become a secular holiday, and I celebrate Yule with Pagan friends, and Christmas with everyone else :)
Shuichi probably would celebrate Christmas. In Japan, Christmas Eve is a secular holiday, a little like Valentine's Day here -- a day for boyfriends to prove how much they love their partners by taking them out on the most lavish date possible.
Since Shuichi's the uke, and the ukes are in all the traditional female roles, it'd be Yuki's job to plan and pay for the date. I wonder if I would?
*pleads on bended knee to steal the icon for the holiday season*
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Date: 2005-12-13 02:33 pm (UTC)By which I mean, I wonder if he would. Still a little tired. The idea of Yuki lavishing a wonderful date on Shuichi -- well, it's a tad out of character, unless K is playing sniper again :)
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Date: 2005-12-14 11:18 am (UTC)I recently heard about the UK's tradition of Christmas crackers and paper hats and Christmas being more like carnival here... I was amused. X3 I like Japan's take on it better though.
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Date: 2005-12-15 08:11 am (UTC)In Canada we do the crackers and paper hat thing, too :)