Argh!
I finished Rumspringa - for better or worse - and now have only the dark, kinda bleak, vaguely cyperpunk morality tale that is Dead Ringer rattling around my head.
I think my muse is bipolar, because now I'm getting this strong desire to write something that's more Lifetime-movie than SAW-movie.
I'm thinking something more along the lines of Rumspringa... maybe set in the late-1960s hippie era. That way I can bring the protagonist to the present and show how it all worked out.
I'm thinking "army brat" who loses a parent in Vietnam. Mom freaks and bails. Kid on the cusp of adulthood finds he's on his own. Then again, there was probably no better time to be a young person on your own than during the crest of the baby boom in the late 1960s.
I think this could go fun places. Lots of Forrest Gump-like brushes with pop icons of the past.
And no insidious cyberpunk badguys. The worst it could get would be Joe Friday-like FBI flatfoots.
Much lighter than "Dead Ringer"
Stupid Muse... why do you even OFFER me the Blue pill anymore?
...sigh...
I'm thinking of calling it "Summer of Love"
Will someone please distract this muse? I need to get some sleep!
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...a cousin and myself.
I listen to this song sometimes when I need to settle down and sometimes even when I need to sleep. It's a youtube vid of the song.
I have it downloaded as the original .xm format and play it on repeat in Winamp using the chipamp add on.
WDYL-WTN - Xara3D6ret
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I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Read "The Haight"
BC's Karin Bishop already beat your muse to it so if you read this your muse may wander in darker directions if that is your inclination
http://www.amazon.com/The-Haight-Karin-Bishop-ebook/dp/B006S...
Rhona McCloud
Not surprised....
I'd like to think I'm inadvertently walking in the footprints of giants who blazed the path.
I've read a lot of Karin Bishop. I really like her voice, and her characters really come alive for me.
I've kind of torn though way too many Kindle books from Karin, Tanya Allan, Katie Leone and a bunch of other gifted authors. I already "broke" one Kindle. Seriously. The e-ink screen just went all strange and the Amazon rep said it was a lost cause.
That didn't stop me. I just installed the Kindle Reader on my Lumia phone.
"Hi. My name is Katherine and I'm an e-book-holic."
I haven't read "The Haight" but now it's on my short list.
Still, I want to wait to read it until I've scratched my own 60s itch. If only on my desktop, and not to publish. Then I will read how a really talented writer approached the subject and compare and contrast. Then maybe I can learn something.
Thanks for putting "The Haight" on my radar. The urge to read is as strong as the urge to write. Maybe it will help distract the muse. :-)
Karin and Tanya were of my first TG reads Kat .....
- like you on Kindle (I have 3 including the first one whose screen is covered in lines but it has my audio books, the second with 3G which I got 2nd hand and my most recent baby my Paperwhite so I can read in the dark without disturbing others). I don't count my iPad/iPad mini/iPod kindle apps which are just there for convenience, like an alcoholic hiding bottles..
Although a classic baby-boomer The Haight was one of my last Karin Bishop reads, probably because the description put me off but it is good.
Good luck with your muse
Rhona
Rhona McCloud
One I enjoyed
That's it.
YES!
Someone else has problems with there muse, maybe mine has come to visit you, it was always causing me tons of trouble.
Have fun!
"Psst hey muse... Kat has LOTS AND LOTS of good food, err stories to feed you with"
Noooooooo!
The last thing anyone of us need is a Muse convention!
...I miss those scampy Shriners... give me mischievous middle aged guys in fezes and tiny cars over a room full of muses ANY day!
:-o
Ray Stevens
Well, they come down Main Street drums a-flailin' and sirens wailing, what a roar!
Bands are a-playin' and flags a-wavin' and the vanguard's a motorcycle corps.
Clowns are a-clownin' through the crowd and pinchin' every pretty girl who dares to smile;
It's a glorious mess, everybody wears a fez, the parade stretches out for a mile.
It's a typical American phenomenon
Where all the members have a fine old time;
It's the 43rd Annual Convention of the Grand Mystic Royal Order of the Nobles of, the Ali-Baba Temple of the Shrine.
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I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Muse help.
I find waiving bright shiny objects in her face gives me time to run. Look, a superhero story! Look there, a morality tale! *runs as if the hounds of hell were chasing*
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Distracting a muse,
will only give it more ideas.
*leaves a massive burst of pixie dust to stimulate any muses nearby*
*grins mischievously*
~Hypatia >i< ..:::
Sigh. I fear you are right.
Farewell sleep. You were my first, and I will always cherish what we had.
Alas. I am in the clutches of the muse now.
Where is my antique thesaurus? I need to find synonyms for ambivalence. :-)
..sigh..