"You've been seeing SOS when it's just your clock reading 5:05"

[eye_of_a_cat]

(None-too-cheerful song lyrics in title don't have anything to do with the rest of the post, although I am getting fed up with still being wide awake at sunrise (about half-past four) every day. Yay for a combination of noisy neighbours, noisy wildlife and being miserable about stuff I should have got over a long time ago.)

Sample sentence from the book I'm reading at the moment, which has made me feel immensely better about my writing style:

"So much of Derrida's writing depends upon multiple reading heads, and although he has not, on the face of it, engaged in co-authorship, narrowly conceived, if we think in broader terms, in terms of interviews, dialogues, translations, examples, citations, iterability, double bands like those in Glas, or 'Living On/Borderlines', the heat-seeking missives of The Post Card, or simply in terms of the medley of styles that he adopts, not to mention his constant openness to the other, then we can say that Derrida only ever co-authors."

I can only assume he was being paid by the comma.

And I've been writing stuff, too, which is good. I actually kept to a self-imposed deadline, for the first time in - well, ever - and it's not a great piece of work, but at least now it's being mediocre on my supervisor's desk rather than mine. Fic is also going somewhere. Writing non-Minbari scenes is tricky, though; hopefully that's just Sheridan, because otherwise it's pretty pathetic that I can't even write my own species.

Comments

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

Fic is also going somewhere.

*bounce bounce*

Sheridan can be really fun to write if you treat him as comic relief. He can be a bit of a buffoon, especially in relation to the Minbari. And he has a voice which is very easy to imitate, because it's so colloquial. On the other hand, his voice is also very American (and so is his personality), which may be why he's hard for you to write.

But, Sheridan's principles in life are very simple: (although he'd never formulate them, because that would violate #2)
1) always act
2) never think twice
3) don't regret anything
4) always rely absolutely on your own moral compass
5) any problem can be solved by immediate, powerful action

These principles have done him well in life, but can get him in trouble as well. (Although not as often as I'd have liked to see, since they're principles that would be liable to land one in trouble.) And I suppose it is a peculiarly American code of ethics.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, his voice is also very American (and so is his personality), which may be why he's hard for you to write.

I think that is it - he's very American (well, very American-TV-character), and what's probably meant to look down-to-earth and human often just comes across as - well, confusing. But he does very much stick to those principles, though. I do wonder what he thought Delenn had done in the war, or who he thought she'd been back on Minbar - surely he'd have asked her more than one question about her parents? But maybe he wouldn't, after all.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, that quote has comforted me about my writing style a great deal, too. At least I have the excuse of writing on a third language.

Good luck with your writing. Sheridan is tricky to write, especially when someone doesn't like him (like myself). Minbari are so much more fun.

And I'm happy for you that you managed to do some work for school. It's always a good feeling, isn't it?

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

I don't like him much either. I'm okay with him in Season 2, when he was more of the angst-about-Anna rather than big-important-speeches type, but not later on. Minbari are far more fun to write.