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Jane Eyre, Dreams and a meme
On wishtheworst's recommendation, I read Jane Eyre. The first thing I want to say is that there was nothing wrong with it. It's well written, and it's not the language that the problem. Nor is it the characters. I loved Jane, I like that she's not perfect, she's tempted by things and that she's got a judgemental streak. Quite frankly I want to take her out to tea and cakes. And I like Rochester. He's the kind of decent rotter who resembles many of my friends. I adored Adele and her pretty pink princessiness. I felt vaguely disturbed by St. John, which I'm reasonably sure is what I'm supposed to feel (matters not helped by him looking excessively like Kim Newman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Newman) in my head). So yes, solid, well written, interesting characters. It didn't do anything for me though. My collegue V saw me reading it and we got talking and he feels the same way. There's nothing wrong with the book, but we're just out of sympathy with it.
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I've always had lucid dreams, which creates confusion when I can't tell the difference between things that have happened in the real world, and things that have happened in a dream. They've been getting worse recently. Last Wednesday, I thought my Mum was trying to shake me away. Thankfully I was with it enough to know that she was in a different part of the country so I told not-real Mum to go away. She didn't and continued to try and shake me awake, much to my annoyance.
Last night, I had a what I assume to be entirely imaginary housemate do the same thing.
Dear sub-concious - STOP IT.
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The first sentences of the last 20 fics I've finished
( Under here )
Overall average word count = 16
Average for the oldest 10 = 18.6
Average for the newest 10 = 13.4
However that includes one massive outlier (105 words), if that's removed it becomes:
Overall average = 12
Average for the oldest 10 = 9
Average for the newest 10 = 13.4
So I might be getting longer but not by much.
2 of the longest 4 are smut. 3 of the shortest 4 are gen-fics. I don't think there's a pattern though.
More English-y stuff. Well, I everything I write is third person limited. One of these days I'll try omniscient narrator, but I fear it's an experiment that will end badly. The two most verbose starts are from limited POV of Randy Orton and Shakespeare. Not a traditional combination. 4 out of the 20 start with speech. Most of them use something in the in media res end of things. There is a situation, and it will be explained, probably in the opening paragraph, but not in the first sentance. I write in the just past quite a lot.
Hideous errors spotted that I now wish to correct = 1.
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I've always had lucid dreams, which creates confusion when I can't tell the difference between things that have happened in the real world, and things that have happened in a dream. They've been getting worse recently. Last Wednesday, I thought my Mum was trying to shake me away. Thankfully I was with it enough to know that she was in a different part of the country so I told not-real Mum to go away. She didn't and continued to try and shake me awake, much to my annoyance.
Last night, I had a what I assume to be entirely imaginary housemate do the same thing.
Dear sub-concious - STOP IT.
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The first sentences of the last 20 fics I've finished
( Under here )
Overall average word count = 16
Average for the oldest 10 = 18.6
Average for the newest 10 = 13.4
However that includes one massive outlier (105 words), if that's removed it becomes:
Overall average = 12
Average for the oldest 10 = 9
Average for the newest 10 = 13.4
So I might be getting longer but not by much.
2 of the longest 4 are smut. 3 of the shortest 4 are gen-fics. I don't think there's a pattern though.
More English-y stuff. Well, I everything I write is third person limited. One of these days I'll try omniscient narrator, but I fear it's an experiment that will end badly. The two most verbose starts are from limited POV of Randy Orton and Shakespeare. Not a traditional combination. 4 out of the 20 start with speech. Most of them use something in the in media res end of things. There is a situation, and it will be explained, probably in the opening paragraph, but not in the first sentance. I write in the just past quite a lot.
Hideous errors spotted that I now wish to correct = 1.