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Obcession

Not so long ago, JVM had a post about how ocs characters are flawed characters. Crazy. Insane.

Today, Jonathan Carroll had a post quoting Steve Almond about how writing is about obcessed characters and that is what is important. It isn't bad. It is necessary.

Tags: character, notetaking, ocd brain, writerly philosophy

Posted at 07:42 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

Cabals

After reading "Retrospect" by Miller in Feb's F&SF, thoughts.

There's always a cabal, a group of usually all men, usually all of a mature age, gathering together in a back room or a living room or a deserted library, discussing whatever it is that is related to the story. Maybe smoking, pipes or cigars, maybe drinking something from heavy glassware or heavy coffee cups, an elite community and where are the women? Maybe they're in a bookclub, or they're composed of shoppers, gathering together for lunch, or dinner, their makeup perfect, their purchases clustered like small animals at their feet, their voices animated, their expressions quick, fleeting, except for one, there is always one, maybe the same one every time, the one with the problem, the problems, and the problem/s are always socially related; a boss, a lover , her mother/father/demanding-dependent-sibling. Nothing about about the nature of the universe, although it is the universe on a macro scale, but nothing about ghosts or ghost stories (unless you count the ex-lovers, the deceased parents), nothing about the changing world or changing the world to change the situation. And, maybe, maybe, maybe there should be.

*note that with Miller's cabal there is a woman within the predominately male group.

Tags: fugue, notetaking, ocd brain

Posted at 01:47 pm | Link | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend