YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM. The LORD AND MASTER of all and his TWELVE INCH WAND is MINE!!! ALL MINE.
Yeah, writing together is definitely helpful in that regard. Guaranteed audience for flailing! And we're flailers.
But yeah, it's always interesting to find out what authors had in mind, which is so often different from what they produce. S'like the thing about magicians. I don't, actually, think it loses any of its enchantment when I find out how the trick is done. It's so impressive when they tell you what they're going to do, and even perhaps how they're going to do it, and then it looks like magic anyway. Unless it's a cheap trick, of course. And one of my favorite seats in a theatre has always been off to the side, on the balcony where you can see into the wings. That liminal moment of transition between character and actor, fictional and real world, is so compelling.
I just object to the god motif of writing; I have spoken and thus it shall be. Possibly I am just contrary.
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Date: 2008-12-27 10:00 am (UTC)Yeah, writing together is definitely helpful in that regard. Guaranteed audience for flailing! And we're flailers.
But yeah, it's always interesting to find out what authors had in mind, which is so often different from what they produce. S'like the thing about magicians. I don't, actually, think it loses any of its enchantment when I find out how the trick is done. It's so impressive when they tell you what they're going to do, and even perhaps how they're going to do it, and then it looks like magic anyway. Unless it's a cheap trick, of course. And one of my favorite seats in a theatre has always been off to the side, on the balcony where you can see into the wings. That liminal moment of transition between character and actor, fictional and real world, is so compelling.
I just object to the god motif of writing; I have spoken and thus it shall be. Possibly I am just contrary.