Metafiction: 'The Blust'ring Winds'
This is quite possibly the longest it has ever taken to write something. I don't just mean for me; I mean ever. Seriously. I started this a while before my exams, enjoyed it, wrote a huge chunk of it over a few days, then stopped. Then went back to it again and drew a complete blank, and did so every other time I attempted to add to it. It wasn't till I was utterly bored on a trip to Cambridge a few weeks ago that I went back to it, wrote another few thousand words, then abandoned it again. I finally put the finishing touches to it a few days ago. I'm still not sure about some of it (read, waiting for Sanjay to get back to me with some advice about editing), particularly the ending, but overall I'm very proud of it. It represents the most structured and longest thing I have written to date. It also has the tightest plotting. As in, it actually has a plot.
Also, The Isley Brothers write the creepiest songs ever. 'Behind a Painted Smile' is really really threatening.
Tune of the moment: Nobody puts baby in the corner - Fall Out Boy
Jac
Also, The Isley Brothers write the creepiest songs ever. 'Behind a Painted Smile' is really really threatening.
Tune of the moment: Nobody puts baby in the corner - Fall Out Boy
Jac
Labels: fiction, magikal realism, Metafiction