*somewhere on the planet venus, a group of oddly-dressed people - who had been in the middle of a strip poker game - suddenly perk their heads up at this announcement*
*and all go running back to their places, straightening their costumes self-consciously and trying to pretend that they've been there all along*
Hmmm. I don't have any "meds", so I suppose I will have to rely solely on coffee, and keep taking notes on the symbolism of the plot of my novel, character development, and then let the dialog flow out of my caffienated brain. Hopefully that will work. But most of the time, coffee makes me incredibly tired (go figure).
Well, to be certain, it's called Paradox, Then. It only vaguely touches on time travel, but it's generally about how all the people who might have changed the world have been assassinated (though there are much deeper messages and levels and intertextual things to it), and how they are "saved" in the "future". The main character is an ordinary person (but that is exactly what is needed, I think... kind of like when Gwen joins Torchwood kinda thing) who is accidentally assassinated, saved, and decides to travel back to the present to try to change things. Or, he might have really been killed in the first chapter of the book, and everything that happens in the rest of the novel is his afterlife. I'm not entirely certain how I want it to read. I like having it intentionally vague like that. Nevertheless, I have a definite structure to the novel, and an outline I am working with... I just have to write all these scenes that are in my head... and that I have written a lot of scenes and notes and things in various memo notebooks... and maybe everything in-between that is what I am having a problem with...
I remember when I went through that with Zoloft. Felt like my brain was all neat and dry-cleaned, or like trying on a new pair of glasses that had no scratches and an improved prescription. It lasted several months. Hope it's at least as good for you. :)
eta: love the post title - very apt. And that was one of the few stories to ever make me cry, IIR.
The clip was actually from 'Top of the Pops', which was also a BBC program and so easier to get a clip from.
But the clip was Plan B - Plan A was for that bit of the episode to depict a Beatles reunion in the 21st century, with the Beatles appearing as themselves in old-man makeup. Their manager said no - which, in retrospect, is probably just as well.
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Date: 2008-02-28 11:21 pm (UTC)*and all go running back to their places, straightening their costumes self-consciously and trying to pretend that they've been there all along*
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Date: 2008-02-29 12:09 am (UTC)Why, yes, I have consumed quite a bit of caffeine today, why do you ask?
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Date: 2008-02-28 11:36 pm (UTC)want to write it for me?what's your secret?no subject
Date: 2008-02-28 11:41 pm (UTC)Didja do my poll on writing, a few entries back? If you're making frustratingly slow progress, a regular writing time is probably your best bet.
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Date: 2008-02-29 02:55 am (UTC)Parts of Seeing I still make me squeemish.
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Date: 2008-02-29 03:10 am (UTC)eta: love the post title - very apt. And that was one of the few stories to ever make me cry, IIR.
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Date: 2008-03-04 02:30 am (UTC)But the clip was Plan B - Plan A was for that bit of the episode to depict a Beatles reunion in the 21st century, with the Beatles appearing as themselves in old-man makeup. Their manager said no - which, in retrospect, is probably just as well.