Monday, June 11, 2007

Scared...

Doctor Who on Saturday was extremely scary. So scary, in fact, that later that night, I trapped myself in a psychological prison, backed into the corner of my bedroom, phone in hand, scared that if I couldn’t see all of my room, if I turned my back for a minute, scary stone angels would come in and get me. The mind really does create its own prisons. I’m starting to think that perhaps there’s something wrong with me, I mean, I’m 26, I shouldn’t be getting so frightened by TV programmes that I can’t leave a corner of my bedroom for fear of being eaten by a monster. ‘Active imagination’ is one thing; this is just ridiculous.

I have a bit more written for Inter Vivos, though I’m still nowhere near my target word limit for my first draft (I have about 60,000 words to go!). It’s coming along though. I have a few nice character bits for Cyrus, and Nox isn’t as passive as I first thought she was. I’m still having problems moving my characters from one place to another, but I’m working through it, through gritted teeth a lot of the time. I really want to get this first draft finished now. Once it’s done, then I’m going to celebrate! Want to come? ;-)

4 comments:

Alex said...

That was a good episode wasnt it? I had to check the credits cos i convinced myself that the woman in it was theresa. Weird. Why would she be in Dr Who?

The angels moving in between the lights was great, like stopframe. I'm deifinately going to nick that technique!

Alex said...

...because it would look good on stage.

Alex said...

Clearly it turned out that she was not.

Remember what I said about Bill Burroughs and his traveling characters. Son't spend too much time planning their journeys if they don't plan them either.

Alex said...

IMO...As thay say.

Not IMHO, because I am rarely humble and my opinions aren't either.