morning

[owlmoose]

So when we got home from the movies last night, the DSL was down. We didn't get it back on until 11:30 this morning, so except for a couple of times I dialed in on T's computer to check my email and poke at LJ a little, I was completely offline all morning. It was a weird experience. It concerns me, actually, a little bit, the amount that I've come to depend on having access to email and AIM and LiveJournal.

Not like I didn't have anything to do this morning. I read some Gabaldon (almost halfway through now) and wrote a bit. I seem to have gone back to my old habit (broken somewhat, temporarily, while writing in the Confessional universe) of writing out of order. I write a little Zanarkand, then some Djose followed by a big section of Luca, poke a little at Bevelle (large sections of which I wrote months ago), then come back to Luca for awhile. I have written so little of AGL in a linear fashion. Whether this is good or not I can't say, but it seems to be the way this story is working for me.

So it could have been a productive morning, but it was just too strange, knowing that I couldn't poke someone via AIM if I felt like chatting, or browse LJ for an hour when I got stuck on a paragraph or after finishing a chapter. It's like I need the distractions in the background in order to focus on what I'm doing. Hmm.

Comments

I

[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

I have a practice of never believing any of these torture unless you renounce JC tales. One of the idiots in the thread calling himself 'Journalist'! said he believed it because such episodes were mentioned in the bible. He then proceeded to quote Revelations.

I courteously pointed out that no one who was a journalist would base a story on the poetic words of a raving maniac. That got some applause from the rational elements. LOL

Could you write a scene in which 16 men, not 15 nor 17, waved their penes at a 12 year old girl and threatened to impale her unless she changed her religion? I would not be able to control my hilarity. Sixteen waggling willies, .... Too much.

Re: I

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Ugh. "Because it might have happened two thousand years ago" is no reason to credit a story being told about recent events, whether one believes in biblical truth or not. I prefer my corroborating sources to be more recent, thanks.

I courteously pointed out that no one who was a journalist would base a story on the poetic words of a raving maniac. That got some applause from the rational elements.

And rightly so.

I agree, I don't think I could write such a scene in an even vaguely believable fashion. Things stranger than fiction do happen, of course, but this? I'd say not.