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October 25, 2004
STORY - plot- and phonelines
No actual work on the book, as I am beating out a short story idea at the moment. I'm hoping to hear back from the editor and be told that the deadline is a good ways off so I can let the character develop in the cookpot in my head, but I know my luck.... :)
My phoneline died last night, much to my imagination's shock and confusion. Discovering at 11 PM that your phoneline is dead is an invitation to wonder if the killer is already in the house.
I also watched The Hours on Saturday. It was a film with great period sets, fine actors, and very little soul, and I was fine with that -- until I watched the commentary by the director and the author of the book it was based on, and then I wanted to fling things at the television. It was the romantic notion that Virginia Woolfe was "completing" her life with her suicide that truly made me roll my eyes in derision.
She was clinically depressed, probably bipolar. She killed herself, and turned up a bloated corpse in a river. Wonder why you didn't show us that image, hm?
The tragedy is people who've convinced themselves that it was a beautiful thing. I call bullshit on that, and so speak my peace on the subject.
Posted by sdshaver at October 25, 2004 11:07 AM