Personal Note: The late late show ...

[nebroadwe]

I'm hoping my subconscious is gearing up for another round of creativity (please, oh, please!) because for the past couple of nights I've been dreaming fanfiction. Yesterday evening, I was wandering through Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan series (and am now rereading Behemoth, whee!); t'other night, the mental drive-in fired up ... Neon Genesis Evangelion? Which I haven't even SEEN, for heaven's sake, except for the Rebuild movies and a trailer or two. Nothing makes you readier to face the day than the realization that it won't have Shinji in it, though.

I entertain the suspicion that my subconscious is in revolt against me reading the manga Cross Game, a slice-of-life baseball story, heavy on the slice of life. (If Princess Nine is baseball as melodrama and Big Windup is baseball as baseball, Cross Game is sort of in the middle: the baseball is there, but so are the human relationships, minus all the Sturm und Drang.) Mind you, my conscious mind loves Cross Game, so my subconscious can grump all it wants -- I'm not giving it up. Perhaps we can compromise on ATLA or something?

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well good luck with the creativity. subconsciouses are so weird

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

At least mine hasn't decided to become inspired by my work life. If I see one more Pope on a pig ...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahaha, I did have to take a pass on the open call from one of my more regular publishers, no halls of academia for me in my writing

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

[grin] Sometimes "Write what you know" is the worst mantra ever.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

indeed. it's like I live this, I don't wanna write it. For that matter I'm struggling with a vacation open call using the one I just took in B.C. it just doesn't capture the excitement

[kanja177.livejournal.com]

Maybe your subconscious *loves* Cross Game, and is trying to frighten you off of other, less salutary fictional pursuits.

(I actively dreamt in the Cross Game universe myself, last week. So another possibility is that this phenomenon is catching ...)

(Also, it kind of made me wish I'd been into team sports.)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind being in the Cross Game universe at night (though I'm not sure I'd want to be back in high school. Maybe I could just drop by for a game?). Last night I think I was in Diane Duane's Young Wizards universe, but of course I can't really remember much about it.

Is this when L and N and I ambush you and drag you off to a minor league baseball game? :-)

[kanja177.livejournal.com]

Do I get my crustacean hat?