The Case of the Procrastinating Story Teller

[roxy]

Can a gun really fire silver bullets? What does a disemboweled body smell like? It's been an interesting evening. Looking up stuff for a story I'm playing with has taken me from Wu-Tang to the Home&Garden channel. Is it any wonder that writing takes me aaaaaaall day long? I mean, if the action in your story takes place in a bathroom, do you look up what is the most popular flooring material at the moment? Is this research or noodling? That little scene in EOTS I wrote about Clark in the bathroom took forever. But I learned a lot about bathrooms back in the day, and I found out that full baths with tubs and showers and stuff were being built into homes a lot earlier than I thought. Fascinating no? Of course! Guess what I'm doing this very moment? Blathering so I don't have to write! Yes! I do that! All the time!

I *love* story-telling!

Comments

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude! Do you remember the chapter I wrote in CFMWH that took place during Lex and Bruce's semester at Princeton? For that, I spent literally FOUR hours looking around all the various suburbs outside Princeton, NJ and finding their apt. and figuring the driving time. . . and then I went into Lex's "school" websites -- Princeton and Harvard -- and plotted out what Lex's friggin' course schedules would be, and when his finals were and what day of the week that would have fallen on (coz that chapter took place so long ago :). . .

yeah, I totally get it. *huff* Urrgh. And now, I'm going to have to look up all sorts of law stuff for when they start getting the case together. . . and all I know about that is what I learned a long time ago from my father and L&O episodes! *g* Ah, writing! Can't live with it, and. . .

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

omg...I think I love you....

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

. . . so what are you so afraid of? Are you afraid that you're not sure of a love there is no cure for? But isn't that what life is made of--

Oh, my God. I apologize for lapsing into song there. That was completely uncalled for. *G*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Mikey's singing with you!

[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

He totally would, too, is what's hilarious! I can almost picture him belting that out. Oh, you made my night! *G*