Comments on: "Is The Music Bad, Mommy?"

By: roughwighting

roughwighting — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:10:50 +0000

In reply to jamesr403. Thank you!

By: Lisa Ciarfella

Lisa Ciarfella — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 01:52:30 +0000

In reply to jamesr403. Great. It's up now! Let me know what you think!

By: Lisa Ciarfella

Lisa Ciarfella — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:21:13 +0000

In reply to jamesr403. Great. It's up now! Let me know what you think!

By: Lisa Ciarfella

Lisa Ciarfella — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 19:18:17 +0000

In reply to jamesr403. Terrific james! I will be checking them out now!

By: jody love's humanTriumphant

jody love's humanTriumphant — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:56:31 +0000

In reply to jamesr403. Love the type faster advice! Primo!!

By: jamesr403

jamesr403 — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:49:13 +0000

In reply to jody love's humanTriumphant. Jody, if the response to this essay is any indication, you are in good company. I did that with my heroine -- wrote the traumatic scene separately -- and then stopped and thought about it. I ended up distancing myself, and her, from it by revealing it in flashbacks and dreams. Reading what I just said, it sounds far more planned and thought out than it really was. It sort of just happened and there were times when I was not entirely sure that i could pull this off. And i lost sleep, too. Which caused me to fall asleep that afternoon, which meant I was up late that night, and so on, Pat yourself on the back for getting that scene done. Good luck and type faster!

By: jody love's humanTriumphant

jody love's humanTriumphant — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:33:57 +0000

Boy, could I relate to this one! I just had to (read that as "made myself") write out a traumatic scene to make meaning to my character's motivations and actions - and it was the force that would've caused her to be exactly where she was in life. I had to leave it out (I mean I just left a big empty section) and come back to it much later, after I had reconciled her issues, to be able to write it - just to assure myself that everything worked out okay in the end. I didn't sleep well the night before or after I wrote that segment. Thanks for assuring me that I'm not the only one who terrorizes myself that way. ;) -jody

By: jamesr403

jamesr403 — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:46:00 +0000

In reply to roughwighting. Thanks, Rough. Yep, it can be satisfying to really hose somebody who deserves it. I'm thinking of the end of Stephen King's Rose Madder, heh heh. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. BTW, I checked out you site -- very cool! I would encourage other WITS readers to do the same.

By: jamesr403

jamesr403 — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:58:09 +0000

In reply to Lisa Ciarfella. Lisa a quick Google shows that you are a CSULB student (grad? professor?) Very cool! My novellas Crashpad and Buzzkill are set at Long Beach in the sixties. And that's where I met my wife, Nancy. Very cool!

By: jamesr403

jamesr403 — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:53:53 +0000

In reply to Lisa Ciarfella. Lisa, Thanks a lot. Glad you liked it, and I'm really glad you plan on sharing some of it. Thanks! I will try to track down your "Monday morning muse."