NaNo notes

[rivendellrose]

NaNo Count: 13,386

Still horribly behind, but I am back in the game of this whole NaNoWriMo thing! It suffered a lot of neglect in the past week, what with Depression Monday, I-Quit-My-Job Tuesday, Hey-Let's-Watch-Buffy-Again Wednesday, and We're-Going-Out-to-Dinner Friday, but I wrote more than 3,000 words today in between reading three graphic novels (how much does Joss Whedon own my soul? Soooo very much. His take on Astonishing X-Men is, as netspeak would have it, the win), so... I'm feeling pretty good.

Hell, I could probably get in another thousand before I go to bed, if I really pushed it... hmmm....

This is a totally random and weird book. But I'm trying not to think about anything except the fact that I think it might actually have some potential hidden under all the randomness and over-emphasis on dialogue.

Comments

[althenesanguis.livejournal.com]

Have you read the "Tales of the Slayer" graphic novel? Joss has one story in there that was just wonderful - told in his own chilling and disturbing fashion of course.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ooo... no, I haven't! I've seen it somewhere, I think, but I'm juuuuust finally starting to get through Buffy (I seem to get through TV shows about a decade behind everybody else in the world... alas), so I'll have to track it down at some point.

Hang on. Was this the one you had in the dorms? I'm starting to remember one of the stories, I think - slayer killed by the town she was protecting? For being a witch, or something similar to that? Or am I getting confused?

And hi, btw! Haven't heard from you in ages! *Hugs*

[althenesanguis.livejournal.com]

Hi. I guess it has been awhile, hasn't it?

You're right about that story. I've forgotten how many people that I subjected to my obsessions over the years. I think one of the things I liked most about that story, though, was they way Joss wrote it. Very rhythmic, almost sing-song in places with his rhyme scheme and rolling cadence. Which made what actually happened all the more creepy. For me at least. There was also a nice framing story at the beginning and end of the graphic novel dealing with the First Slayer.

Have you finished all seven seasons of Buffy yet? And then, you know, there's also Angel... He can be annoying, but if you watch the entire series, I believe it does contain the arc of one whom I believe is *the* most tortured character in all of the Jossverse.

I just watched the Buffy Musical a few times; I'm attending Orycon again this year, and there's going to be a Buffy Karaoke organized by the Portland Browncoats with the songs from that ep. Should be fun.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It has!

I'll really have to look that one up - I love the way Joss writes, he has such a beautiful knack with words. Especially dialogue, so it'd be really interesting to see him do something that, if memory serves, was mostly prose/exposition. That sounds just lovely in a disturbing sort of way.

Not in the slightest. *g* I'm kind of... bopping around through season 3 at the moment, not going in any particular order other than me going up to my housemate who has the DVDs and giving big puppy eyes with the "can we watch some, please?" and then telling her and the other housemates who've seen already to pick the episodes. It makes things a little messy in my head, especially since I'm spoiled on a lot of stuff, and since one of the earlier episodes I watched was actually from Angel - "Smile Time?" That was too much fun.

Most tortured... are we talking Angel, or Fred? Or someone else I've forgotten completely... I've heard enough about Fred to get a sense that she's fairly well tortured. Joss does love tormenting his self-insert characters.

Oooo. That'd be awesome! Those are such fun songs... they're always high on my playlist.

[althenesanguis.livejournal.com]

*nods* Joss has a way of taking words and making them bend to his every whim. I was reading an interview with him about the experience of writing a comic, and he talked about how he kept having to take out words because he wanted to just make with the talky-talky. Now I'm not really a comics-fangirl (fangirl, ohhh yes, just not so much comics), but pages and pages of Joss-written dialogue? I'm not seeing the bad. I was able to wait until the library got the other two Whedon graphic novels, but now I'm probably going to have to buy the third.

While I can see a case being made about Angel and Fred being tortured characters, neither is the one I alluded to. This character went through an incredible arc, starting a bit on Buffy, and went until the last ep of Angel.

Why is it I love broken characters so?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

He does. And that sounds so completely like Joss - I can just see him sitting there, writing.... and then rereading what he's written, getting frustrated, erasing a bunch because he went off on another dialogue tangent. XD I soooo much empathize with that - my NaNoWriMo novel at the moment is pretty much 75% dialogue. Alas, it is not Joss Whedon dialogue, and thus nothing anyone would be willing to read 50,000 words of. I'll have a lot of editing to do when I get done with the dratted thing.

Iiiinteresting. I can't wait to see, then - the broken characters are always the most fun, and Joss does them so very very well. ♥