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[rivendellrose]

Just finished reading Wicked. Still absorbing. It was... very interesting.

Also working on London: The Biography and will be starting The Kite Runner tomorrow, probably.

Totally stymied (again) on writing. No matter how I push, I just don't know where this stupid story is going anymore. Whenever I think I've had a break-through, a bit of writing at it puts me right up against a wall again. I'm ready to drop it and move on to something else, but I honestly don't have any other projects that feel a hell of a lot more steady, at the moment. Grrr. Hopefully I'll have an epiphany when I try to work on it tonight.

Made braised (sort of) baby bok choy and a black-pepper tuna steak for dinner. Ye gods, I love good tuna. It's soooo good.

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[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

I'll wish you good luck on the writing project if you wish me good luck on mine? ;D

Just kidding - I'm not that much of a Slytherin. Maybe leave it alone for a while, come back at it with some more perspective later?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

As a Ravenclaw, I heartily approve of that sort of sentiment. ;)

Good luck on your writing, and I think I might very well take your advice and take a brief break from mine. Or at least try to get a new perspective on it. Sometimes starting over fresh from a different point in the action is exactly what I need.

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

:grins: Innit?

I agree with that. I started this one just this morning, and I'm trying to outline the hell out of it before I've a chance to lose interest. Is yours something original? I' doing a multi-chapter fanfic one, just because I want to finish one, ONCE. Then I can move on.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Nope - this is also a multi-chapter fic, and also my first ever. Probably my last, too, all things considered. This one... it was supposed to be just a stupid little one-shot! I was trying to write something else, and it hijacked my brain, and then the two main characters decided to just kind of... take up residence in my head and refuse to leave. Which'd be fine if they'd be more conscientious about telling me what the hell I'm supposed to write. ;)

Damned pushy characters. *Pokes them*

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

You finished Wicked? That was quick, didn't you say yesterday that you had just read a few pages...it must be really good. *runs off to put on hold at library site*
Ummmm tuna. Yummy! I had copper river salmon. Also ummm, yummy!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yup. 406 pages in two days. Let it never be said that being an English major doesn't give you any useful skills. *g*

Funny thing, I haven't actually had any interest in salmon, recently. Not sure why, it just doesn't sound as good as other things, I guess.

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Who is the author of wicked?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Gregory Maquire. *g*

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[sigelphoenix.livejournal.com]

Just finished reading Wicked. Still absorbing. It was... very interesting.

That's how I feel about the book, too. It's well-written (he has some fantastic imagery, doesn't he?), and it pulls you along, but once I finished, I didn't know quite how to take it. I think that's part of Maguire's point -- if Elphaba can't understand why everything happened, or the answers to her basic questions about fate and evil, then we can't understand either. It's clever, and sort of maddening, but it works.

In that sense, the musical feels much more simplistic. But I still love it -- and we can see it next September! :D

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I think you're right about his intentions on the end of the book, and he succeeded at getting across a feeling of absolute confusion and resignation to a bizarre and twisted universe. I won't say too much more, since I know some people still haven't read it, but "maddening" was definitely a good word for it.

Listening to some of the music last night, after I'd finished the book, it really was clear that they'd simplified the plot quite a bit. I love the way they played Elphaba and Galinda's relationship, though, and I really sort of like how Elphaba is written as more idealistic and less jaded to begin with in the musical. Not quite as true to the theme of the book, but it certainly makes for better songs. ;) And yes - next September!!!