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Shocking Realizations on November 7, 2009
Nov. 7th, 2009 02:21 pm1. The cupboard in our basement is exactly like the one Harry Potter lives in while he stays with the Dursleys. Americans would call it a "closet" or "pantry" but my parents and their British ways call it a "cupboard" too. Anyway, I feel weird having lived in my house for so long and not realizing that.
2. The supermarket by my house doesn't sell cigarettes. Yes, that's right. There's a supermarket in NYC that does not sell cigarettes. Not that I smoke, but someone needed a pack and I came back empty-handed.
3. I need to stop slacking actually write all the stuff for my fics. I have all the ideas and plots, I've just been finding other things to do rather than write them down while they're fresh.
4. I am incapable of writing a "happily ever after" story. I thought I could, but I did the sketch of Confessions of a Fairy Godmother and the ending was again one of those neither here nor there endings. I mean, I like the end and as far as I can tell, I'm keeping it. I've talked to my best friend and another friend about this, and they've both said it's probably because I'm realistic and don't believe in "happily ever after." It's not quite the same as 'I don't believe in Santa Claus, I can't write a Christmas story about him.' It has to do with my personal writing style and "happily ever after" is more a stylistic issue than storyline. Writers write based on how they imagine the world runs. I mean, it's not rocket science to write a "happily ever after" ending, and could have easily tied up the story that way. But this is pretty close -- it's that we make our own happy endings.
5. All those cliche romance stories where the guy and the girl are forced to be together due to circumstances beyond their control and pretend that they are a real couple while they secretly hate each other, but end up falling for one another? They have to fall for each other or the story doesn't work. I read one where they don't end up together and I realize that the entire point of reading was to see them get together, and if they don't, it's almost like cheating. (Of course, in the story I read, there were two parts so each of them found their significant other by the conclusions.) I remember learning this in Theory of Drama, but for some reason didn't visualize this as one of those situations.
2. The supermarket by my house doesn't sell cigarettes. Yes, that's right. There's a supermarket in NYC that does not sell cigarettes. Not that I smoke, but someone needed a pack and I came back empty-handed.
3. I need to stop slacking actually write all the stuff for my fics. I have all the ideas and plots, I've just been finding other things to do rather than write them down while they're fresh.
4. I am incapable of writing a "happily ever after" story. I thought I could, but I did the sketch of Confessions of a Fairy Godmother and the ending was again one of those neither here nor there endings. I mean, I like the end and as far as I can tell, I'm keeping it. I've talked to my best friend and another friend about this, and they've both said it's probably because I'm realistic and don't believe in "happily ever after." It's not quite the same as 'I don't believe in Santa Claus, I can't write a Christmas story about him.' It has to do with my personal writing style and "happily ever after" is more a stylistic issue than storyline. Writers write based on how they imagine the world runs. I mean, it's not rocket science to write a "happily ever after" ending, and could have easily tied up the story that way. But this is pretty close -- it's that we make our own happy endings.
5. All those cliche romance stories where the guy and the girl are forced to be together due to circumstances beyond their control and pretend that they are a real couple while they secretly hate each other, but end up falling for one another? They have to fall for each other or the story doesn't work. I read one where they don't end up together and I realize that the entire point of reading was to see them get together, and if they don't, it's almost like cheating. (Of course, in the story I read, there were two parts so each of them found their significant other by the conclusions.) I remember learning this in Theory of Drama, but for some reason didn't visualize this as one of those situations.