I've gotten a good way through the novel and I've hit a bit of a block... which sucks but it gives me a chance to pen some new shorts right? I have several hundred ideas for shorts in my head so any chance to get them on paper should be a good one right? I suppose it would be if not for my obscene problem with making up names! it shouldn't be this difficult! I'm working on already established worlds, rules, and cultures. I have been working with these planets for the last five years give or take. It shouldn't be that difficult - even if at the moment I have the attention span of a gnat - I should be able to at least get some fragments down on paper. I want to. Really badly but it just isn't working for me today. So - this is my writing for the day - everything else I've touched today sucks.
Why was it so easy to come up with the maraph and the dromin and the mettiks (all animals related to the Strange Angel worlds) but on Wyalat right now I have the rfm - really fast mammals and the lsm - large slow mammals... that sucks. And the names of the characters for the particular short I'm attempting to work on are literally - C, N, R, D, - using the first letters I want until I can figure out thier names later. names are usually so damned easy for me! It must be everything else just piling up on me. Whatever it is... It sucks.
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I was watching the news last night and heard what has to be the greatest case for a sentance of mandatory sterilization. A woman left an infant (I did not catch how old) in a crib for three weeks - alone. The baby, miraculously, is not dead. A neighbor found him. The mother had told a friend that the baby was with a sitter. Instead, he was slowly starving to death. The baby is in the hospital now and I hope she has a creative judge - one willing to make an odd sentance. This woman should not be allowed to have children - not even allowed to create them. CPS has it's good points but, how many kids slip through the cracks, how many parents are so good at charming the agents? There has to be a point where these parents are just so bad that they get to be sterilized. When my son was a baby, I could barely leave him for three hours - and that was only if he was with relatives and had everything he could possibly need. I can't imagine a mother who could leave her child for three weeks. It just flat out makes me sick.
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