tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37083420.post847996876322146562..comments2024-01-27T16:10:28.502-08:00Comments on Tara Maya's Tales: Full of Rape and AdverbsTara Mayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09095632631554776002noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37083420.post-49117416946907613002012-06-21T08:08:20.429-07:002012-06-21T08:08:20.429-07:00(This is actually a comment I wrote for your post ...(This is actually a comment I wrote for your post on What's Davin Eating, because my comment wouldn't stick there.) I was really enjoying the story about the scientists.<br /><br />I like your idea of HTU. I don't know how to do that. I tried it once with a sf story. The premise was going to be like Mad Men in space. This guy is recruited by a company to go work on another planet, and he finds that the humans have simply taken over quarters inside an alien city, which itself is like a huge, living thing. Miles of viscous, pulsating tunnels. So he has this weird sensation of living in the stomach of a beast, yet everyone around him treats it like suburbia. The aliens who belong there have lost the capacity to recognize the existence of others, so they assume that humans belong there too and ignore them. He realizes that he and the other humans are like parasites, like ringworm, living in the belly of the alien city, leaching its resources for their own purposes. <br /><br />This could have been the set-up for a standard space opera, where he becomes an Avatar-like hero and defies the Evil Megacorporation and defends the exploited aliens. Clearly that would have been the more salable plot. But I didn't want it to be resolved. I just wanted the story to revolve around this guy puttering away at his job, feeling bad, once in a while about being the ringworm in someone else's host, but most of the time just worried about the usual crap one is worried about at one's job, like whether his boss likes him, whether his wife is cheating on him, or whatever. As soon as you said "HTU" I thought of that story, and realized, "Oh,that's what I wanted to do."<br /><br />But I still have no idea how to do that. Like Scott, I found I couldn't even start the story without some notion of how it would end.Tara Mayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095632631554776002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37083420.post-18070182105655621632012-06-20T10:48:28.363-07:002012-06-20T10:48:28.363-07:00Tara Maya, I stumbled on that list a few days ago,...Tara Maya, I stumbled on that list a few days ago, and it was interesting. I really liked the item about dependent clauses because it made me see those clauses in a new way. I realized I was adding more of them to my own writing, and this list helped me to see why that was happening. <br /><br />Thanks for posting up your scene too! It was a great read! For what it's worth, I consider your writing to be literary.Davin Malasarnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09385823575081492949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37083420.post-38924629237795038892012-06-18T07:53:09.330-07:002012-06-18T07:53:09.330-07:00Yay! I love my Kindle Fire.
And thanks. :DYay! I love my Kindle Fire.<br /><br />And thanks. :DTara Mayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095632631554776002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37083420.post-18586678694478039892012-06-18T07:26:38.216-07:002012-06-18T07:26:38.216-07:00I have a Kindle Fire now !!! I need to go downloa...I have a Kindle Fire now !!! I need to go download the rest of your books !!! I'd forgotten how much I appreciated your 'rape and adverbs' - which is why I'll probably have to re-read #1 :DBanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15450115293974960761noreply@blogger.com