Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[happy_terd]

Dont forget to take the pot plants inside.

[SneakySnake]

They can stay out there. Too big to bring in!

[nomesque]

SS - so THAT'S where all the helicopters went. I was wondering why it was so quiet round here today

I'm 3 pages into writing The Vampire Suicide Agency. I know I should be writing Maisy May 2, but this vampire story won't shut up, it insists I write it. So, there you go. Yes, a large number of writers are, technically, insane.

[SneakySnake]

Insanity always helps me keep sane. If that makes any sense.
plus jasmine tea

[recluse]

So, tell me, Nomesque.
Gift or curse?

SneakySnake, you rarely make sense.
This time, you did.

[nomesque]

Originally Posted by recluse

So, tell me, Nomesque.
Gift or curse?

Oh, gift. It may seem a curse occasionally, but I wouldn't trade being ME in all my instability for being one of the crowd. Ever.

Even if my children's teachers give me really weird looks once they read my stuff...

[recluse]

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest human battle ever and to never stop fighting."
e.e. cummings

Pretty much covers the curse part, right?
I admire your gift and your talent.

[nomesque]

Originally Posted by recluse

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest human battle ever and to never stop fighting."
e.e. cummings

Pretty much covers the curse part, right?
I admire your gift and your talent.

Thanks, my dear *mwah!* I appreciate the encouragement. I've been feeling a little blah about my writing lately - and knowing that this always happens to me when I release a new book hasn't been helping much!

I think the fight is sometimes against the taught desire to fit in and be liked and approved of. I probably have less (not none!) of that because my parents were in some ways staunch nonconformists. I didn't realise till I was in my 20s that most women my age were brought up completely differently... All dolls and frills and 'don't reach for the stars, they're for men'.

How are you feeling? You seem more cheerful, but I thought you might just be putting up a good front to avoid upsetting folks...

[recluse]

Sadly, my family was so conformist, they should have been issued uniforms. My mother once told me the police would view me as a serial killer suspect.
I'm doing good. I did initially put up a false front, but now I accept that I am an outsider. I think it gives me a better perspective of the world. Hell, right now, chatting with you, I'm happy!

[SneakySnake]

who wants to be normal or ordinary anyway? Certainly not me. I rather like the fact the people I know think I am weird. We should all embrace it.

[SneakySnake]

I have lambsy necks simmering on the stove for tonight's dinner. And I am looking at a photo of my sister in law with her new bionic arm. (she lost it in a mower accident earlier this year) Not enough stainless steel for me, but the claw looks useful.

[happy_terd]

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

who wants to be normal or ordinary anyway? Certainly not me. I rather like the fact the people I know think I am weird. We should all embrace it.

Being normal really depends on the company you keep.

You are pretty normal as far as lounge lizards go, but out in the real world I think I would lock my car doors real quick.

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

Being normal really depends on the company you keep.

You are pretty normal as far as lounge lizards go, but out in the real world I think I would lock my car doors real quick.

Hey I am not a robber!

[happy_terd]

WHY THE MASK THEN?>??

[nomesque]

Originally Posted by recluse

Sadly, my family was so conformist, they should have been issued uniforms. My mother once told me the police would view me as a serial killer suspect.
I'm doing good. I did initially put up a false front, but now I accept that I am an outsider. I think it gives me a better perspective of the world. Hell, right now, chatting with you, I'm happy!

We're all outsiders looking in at what we think is everyone else in the warm cozy room, toasting marshmallows... I don't know who the hell those folk are, I think they're actually figments of our collective imagination.

I think we're all serial killer suspects, too, in one way or another... so your mother was right. *snort*

I have another theory... that there are two basic types of people in the world. Those instinctively oriented toward community, and those instinctively oriented outward. That community-oriented folk will often focus on conformity as a means of promoting community (like a wolf pack driving out a weird-coloured member - does that actually happen or have I been reading too much ill-informed fiction?), whereas outward-oriented folk will often focus on 'doing their own thing'. The community-minded provide cohesiveness, the outward-minded provide the change and chaos required for growth. Both need the other - but lack of understanding between the two do a LOT of damage. (I doubt this theory is at all original, it sounds too plausible! )