the ramble dump
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Snakes And
amelia: it's pretty slow around here, mostly
a barely alive library, it is.
Chris: do you get sliding ladders?
amelia: no...
Chris: oh
amelia: but we have the best view in the world
Chris: but not sliding ladders.
amelia: two long stretching walls of picture windows from the second floor...
and we can see the whole valley to the east and the south
and all the frothy bathwater clouds.
there was a rainbow a few minutes ago
stabbed right in the middle of it all
Chris: but yo' ladders don't slide
amelia: we don't need ladders
we have stepstools.
Chris: don't try to rationalise your way out of this
Labels: alien conversations, ladders
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Things Going Down In Ol' Jesnailstown...
So ever since we conceived the timetraveling Jesnails project back in April 2006, we've had a lot of problems getting much of it out there, and (in my case) being unsatisfied with it even when some tortured piece of something or other is finally ground out. Despite attempts to shift the format from overinvolved related episodes to a more spontaneous montage last year, things still haven't been working out on the inspiration front.
There have been numerous times, pretty much every time I consider it, in fact, where I think about packing it in and leaving Jesnails to gather dust in the memory of her better, albeit shortlived, days; thinking, despite a few flashes of inspiration, that Jesnails has been stretched past her limit as a concept; thinking that the work of dragging this thing out solo, as has been the case for a while now, is without much point. And I'm well aware that I'm here again making yet another post about it.
As a result, one thing has become clear to me. I realise that I can no longer consider myself deserving of official authorship where Jesnails is concerned. Therefore, in an astounding manouevre that rivals, almost, the moves of Jesnails herself, the Jesnailsy stuff on this site will be receiving a new, exciting designation. That designation is to be FANFICTION.
Why but why? you ask, taken aback by this shocking, ingenious decision. Well, there are several reasons for choosing to go along this particular route.
I will be producing an uneven mix of miniseries, one-shots and fragments. And I can promise, saving extreme circumstances, that there will be something fairly big appearing before the year is out, with a little something else before that.
Stay tunizzled.
There have been numerous times, pretty much every time I consider it, in fact, where I think about packing it in and leaving Jesnails to gather dust in the memory of her better, albeit shortlived, days; thinking, despite a few flashes of inspiration, that Jesnails has been stretched past her limit as a concept; thinking that the work of dragging this thing out solo, as has been the case for a while now, is without much point. And I'm well aware that I'm here again making yet another post about it.
As a result, one thing has become clear to me. I realise that I can no longer consider myself deserving of official authorship where Jesnails is concerned. Therefore, in an astounding manouevre that rivals, almost, the moves of Jesnails herself, the Jesnailsy stuff on this site will be receiving a new, exciting designation. That designation is to be FANFICTION.
Why but why? you ask, taken aback by this shocking, ingenious decision. Well, there are several reasons for choosing to go along this particular route.
- I will be free. Free of the crushing responsibility of good quality writing, and free of the need for character consistency. Free of the bounds of continuity. Free of the nagging, gnawing guilt of continuing it all without my absent (and possibly indifferent) co-author of instalments past, for between such a combined entity of authorship and my own lonely self there is the same difference as that between time and spacetime.
- It's one way, I guess, of getting unstuck from the timetravel premise. That bastard really did not want to work.
- Jesnails deserves fanfiction. Many other, far less groovy messianic figures already have it. It's a very prestigious art form.
I will be producing an uneven mix of miniseries, one-shots and fragments. And I can promise, saving extreme circumstances, that there will be something fairly big appearing before the year is out, with a little something else before that.
Stay tunizzled.
Labels: jesnails
