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Mythic Trials and Literary Tribulations
Dec. 27th, 2002 01:00 pmI've been known to write creatively at various times and think about writing creatively even more. Occasionally I'm even told I'm rather good, although you can never quite trust family judgment on this. I've also read what various authors have written about writing.
The reason for this wind-up? I'd like to announce, finally, the discovery of my muse.
And she's an evil little bitch.
Let's start with the project she's started out giving impetus to. It's not original fiction. It's not even from a well-established fandom, like Buffy, X-files or West Wing. It's bookfic and I don't even read book-fic (although I'm starting to be indoctrinated into the HP cult).
Not only is it book-fic, it is relatively obscure bookfic, and not only obscure, but a crossover as well.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to announce the instigation of a Sandman/Young Wizards fanfic! (YW, for the uninitiated, is a series by Diane Duane that takes the best of Susan Cooper and Madeline L'Engle and blows them both out of the water). Join Kit, Ponch and a newly bereaved Nita as they travel on errantry to Dream's castle and just happen, by convenient coincidence to run across all his relatives along the way. Many un-named cameos from popular culture also appear.
Am I crazy or what? (Don't answer that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ase)
Any Muse who would start their writer out on such an oddball project in the first place is obviously perverse. But that's not all.
Beyond the conceptual madness that is this fic, my dearest Muse has physically, late at night, gotten me out of bed to write it. Twice!! It's not "oh, there's a clever idea I don't want to forget overnight", it's being practically woken up with an entire scene, complete with dialogue, that won't be there in an hour if I don't get moving.
Rolling out of bed at home and typing some stuff out on my computer is one thing, but to be driven from the guest room at the Folks' house during Christmas and stumbling blinding through the halls in search of a legal pad is something else entirely. I've procured a website, I've gotten an LJ, I am now fully prepared for anything the muse might wish to have publicly displayed at some future date.
So why the hell can't she cut me any slack in the present?
I'm telling you, I've heard of a compulsion to write, but being driven like this, if only in fits and spurts, is downright scary.
Sometime during this next week, if you're all good, I'll post the various fragments that have gotten into text. They are surprisingly non-chronological. I've heard about writing scenes out of order, but I've always proceeded in a fairly linear fashion before.
Oh well...
If nothing else, I like to think I'm able to imitate Duane's style to a certain degree, and that makes me happy. As does the possibility of writing the first actually read-able (not necessarily good, just read-able) piece of YW fanfic. Books of this quality deserve a larger and more fanatical fanbase. ;-)
The reason for this wind-up? I'd like to announce, finally, the discovery of my muse.
And she's an evil little bitch.
Let's start with the project she's started out giving impetus to. It's not original fiction. It's not even from a well-established fandom, like Buffy, X-files or West Wing. It's bookfic and I don't even read book-fic (although I'm starting to be indoctrinated into the HP cult).
Not only is it book-fic, it is relatively obscure bookfic, and not only obscure, but a crossover as well.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to announce the instigation of a Sandman/Young Wizards fanfic! (YW, for the uninitiated, is a series by Diane Duane that takes the best of Susan Cooper and Madeline L'Engle and blows them both out of the water). Join Kit, Ponch and a newly bereaved Nita as they travel on errantry to Dream's castle and just happen, by convenient coincidence to run across all his relatives along the way. Many un-named cameos from popular culture also appear.
Am I crazy or what? (Don't answer that
ase)Any Muse who would start their writer out on such an oddball project in the first place is obviously perverse. But that's not all.
Beyond the conceptual madness that is this fic, my dearest Muse has physically, late at night, gotten me out of bed to write it. Twice!! It's not "oh, there's a clever idea I don't want to forget overnight", it's being practically woken up with an entire scene, complete with dialogue, that won't be there in an hour if I don't get moving.
Rolling out of bed at home and typing some stuff out on my computer is one thing, but to be driven from the guest room at the Folks' house during Christmas and stumbling blinding through the halls in search of a legal pad is something else entirely. I've procured a website, I've gotten an LJ, I am now fully prepared for anything the muse might wish to have publicly displayed at some future date.
So why the hell can't she cut me any slack in the present?
I'm telling you, I've heard of a compulsion to write, but being driven like this, if only in fits and spurts, is downright scary.
Sometime during this next week, if you're all good, I'll post the various fragments that have gotten into text. They are surprisingly non-chronological. I've heard about writing scenes out of order, but I've always proceeded in a fairly linear fashion before.
Oh well...
If nothing else, I like to think I'm able to imitate Duane's style to a certain degree, and that makes me happy. As does the possibility of writing the first actually read-able (not necessarily good, just read-able) piece of YW fanfic. Books of this quality deserve a larger and more fanatical fanbase. ;-)
