Mar. 30th, 2007

alpharaposa: (white horse)
Thinking over this post by [livejournal.com profile] haikujaguar.

I was wondering why, since I, too, focus on characters, I haven't been able to get a novel length story finished since high school. (Don't ask to see it. It was written by hand in three notebooks and shown only to a friend who read it as I wrote it. Like most first works, it is embarassing in several ways. But I still have it, and portions are probably not too faded to read.)

And I thought about the way I read, and the way I RP, and even the way I watch TV shows with over arching plots.

And I realized, I use all these to try things out. I either like or dislike a character as if I met them, or I play or write or watch and try on the attitudes and thoughts and see if they fit. Does this philosophy work, or will it need letting out at the seams? What would happen if I tried this situation on? Even if I'm not actually RPing a character like that, I'll go to the mental fitting room for a while to see what it looks like.

All my gaming plots are character driven, because, internally, I guess I'm just offering people a chance to try things on, too. Here- this is the situation. Here is the great wardrobe, filled with roles to put on. Which one are you going to choose?
alpharaposa: (otaku)
By the way- Frankenstein? Good read. Go read it. Really.

And the Sherlock Holmes stuff? Go read that, too. It's fun stuff.

How many people watched Star Trek: First Contact? Remember the girl who compared Picard to Captain Ahab from Moby Dick? She spent time talking about how he was going after that white whale. And then, Picard quotes from the book, and she's lost. She'd never actually read the book, even though she knew vaguely what it was all about.

There are a lot of books I've never read. I've been slowly trying to fill in those gaps. Hence, the Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein. I read A Christmas Carol after this Christmas, just so I'd know. I'd also read Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days for the first time.

Let's see... who else? How many people have never actually read Through the Looking Glass or Alice in Wonderland? I've been wanting to reread them recently, but our library lacks a copy. What about the Oz books?

Maybe I'll even sit down sometime and read Moby Dick or Ivanhoe.

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