Taking Eccentricity To New Levels
The Love You Withhold Is The Pain You Carry
In which I ramble
Posted on 2009.11.09 at 14:30Where am I?: the ghetto still
Feeling:
contemplative
Ear Tickle:: silence
I remember this day twenty years ago. Just having started maternity leave, I was at home and had been following the news quite avidly. There had been demonstrations and peaceful, passive rebellion all over Eastern Europe, but on November 9th, the Berlin wall finally, finally came down. I cried because I was unable to travel, but was happy--for the only time in my life--that I had a tv on which I could follow all the events. May today be the start of the journey on the road to true freedom for humanity.
A friend posted a rec somewhere for Harmonic, wondering whether music, mushrooms, astrophysics were part of my knowledge, whether I'd researched it, or whether I had friends who had the knowledge. I felt an incredible surge of affection for her when I read that because she was one of the very few who went beyond the pleasure-reading and wondered about those things. Which probably brings me to writing, but I'll start by answering those questions.
Mushrooms: I knew the names of mushrooms before I could even speak. And I could speak the names of chanterelle and cep in German before I could say the names of my closest relatives. I find mushrooms where nobody else finds them. I remember an occasion some years ago when I lived in Berlin and a couple of friends and I went for a walk in the woods in autumn. We returned home with a basket full of chanterrelles and ceps and other bolets, and those friends thought me weird for finding them; I'd simply dive into a space and pick them whenever the mushroom fairy whispered to me.
Music: I do have a decent foundation of knowledge, but I did do a lot of research with regard to the music of the spheres, for that particular knowledge was less than basic. But then, I love researching, getting really deep into a subject to enable me to view it from every possible angle. For me, that's part of the writing process.
Physics: Let's not go there, lol. When I lamented the fact that my knowledge of physics is non-existent, my friend told me that I didn't need to know about it as long as my character did. Uh, yes. Hermione surely knows a lot more about that than I do. When it comes to maths and physics, I seem to have a block, and even when I did make the effort to dive into it, the result was epic fail. So I'll just pretend I know something about it... :)
I do tend to write about the stuff I know, and most of the time, when I feel I don't know enough about it, then I learn about it until I do know.
I have various fics in various stages of writing, but at the moment, I'm concentrating on one that I'd like to see completed by Yule. One friend unleashed a monster when she mentioned something, and I've been scribbling away happily.
Being part of team Mercury in the Intergalactic Quidditch Cup is great fun, and the first poll, in which you areImperioedinvited to vote for your favourite first chapter, is posted on the potterplace community.
Before I started rambling here, I beta-read the final chapter of A Murder of Crows by![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
hogwarts_91. While I'm happy, very happy, that this story is completed, I'm feeling bereft. Kind of similar to the way I felt when little_beloved sent me the final chapter of Denial. I can only hope that Dani gets bitten by a rabid plot bunny that will produce another epic.
A friend posted a rec somewhere for Harmonic, wondering whether music, mushrooms, astrophysics were part of my knowledge, whether I'd researched it, or whether I had friends who had the knowledge. I felt an incredible surge of affection for her when I read that because she was one of the very few who went beyond the pleasure-reading and wondered about those things. Which probably brings me to writing, but I'll start by answering those questions.
Mushrooms: I knew the names of mushrooms before I could even speak. And I could speak the names of chanterelle and cep in German before I could say the names of my closest relatives. I find mushrooms where nobody else finds them. I remember an occasion some years ago when I lived in Berlin and a couple of friends and I went for a walk in the woods in autumn. We returned home with a basket full of chanterrelles and ceps and other bolets, and those friends thought me weird for finding them; I'd simply dive into a space and pick them whenever the mushroom fairy whispered to me.
Music: I do have a decent foundation of knowledge, but I did do a lot of research with regard to the music of the spheres, for that particular knowledge was less than basic. But then, I love researching, getting really deep into a subject to enable me to view it from every possible angle. For me, that's part of the writing process.
Physics: Let's not go there, lol. When I lamented the fact that my knowledge of physics is non-existent, my friend told me that I didn't need to know about it as long as my character did. Uh, yes. Hermione surely knows a lot more about that than I do. When it comes to maths and physics, I seem to have a block, and even when I did make the effort to dive into it, the result was epic fail. So I'll just pretend I know something about it... :)
I do tend to write about the stuff I know, and most of the time, when I feel I don't know enough about it, then I learn about it until I do know.
I have various fics in various stages of writing, but at the moment, I'm concentrating on one that I'd like to see completed by Yule. One friend unleashed a monster when she mentioned something, and I've been scribbling away happily.
Being part of team Mercury in the Intergalactic Quidditch Cup is great fun, and the first poll, in which you are
Before I started rambling here, I beta-read the final chapter of A Murder of Crows by
hogwarts_91. While I'm happy, very happy, that this story is completed, I'm feeling bereft. Kind of similar to the way I felt when little_beloved sent me the final chapter of Denial. I can only hope that Dani gets bitten by a rabid plot bunny that will produce another epic.
Feeling:
content
Ear Tickle:: Mozart Requiem