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What do you do when EVERYTHING RHYMES?
I added around 5,000 words today, but I took out about 3,000 (hazards of thwacking; there might be field mice in the fields!), so the wordcount is only about 14,445. I also rewrote maybe another 1-2,000, so really I wrote over 6,000 words. Quite proud of myself, though now that I feel it's all sufficiently thwacked, I have to go back to the nose-to-the-grindstone stuff, making myself do it, which isn't nearly as fun as what I did today. Luckily, I'm way over where I need to be for the week, so even if I piddle around tomorrow, which I will, and don't do any on Sunday, which I'm planning on, I'll be set on Monday to torture myself afresh. This is really quite fun.
Here's a writing thing for today. I'm finding it really hard not to make things rhyme. I do it like, all the time. The problem is, there's usually a rhythm to my writing. It goes a certain kind of way, which is funny, because I have no rhythm. But once I get started, things just seem to come out, and if I notice that they rhyme, I'm all like, "Oh, that's cool! I can tease that out even more!" and then I go to town. The problem is, things get sort of sing-songy that way, like when I realized that "more" rhymed with Pandora, and they were speaking of "all the gifts". It turned into, like, this series of riffs, and I had to keep Prometheus from snarking, because he's the Noble Hero of the myth, while Hades is the snarking one. I mean, Prometheus could be snarky! Just not in this one. What is Prometheus doing in a Persephone myth anyway, you say? That's a story for another day . . .
And then what really gets me is the way everything fits together, so many words are part of some other word; is it so wrong to use the word "debacchate" in a mythic story when you're not actually talking about Bacchus? Yes, it is, Joy. Then I start punning, and everything goes downhill from there. I . . . I could not keep Zeus from calling Prometheus an "avuncular fellow". Omg *head desk* As long as Persephone doesn't call Hades avuncular I think it's okay. Except that Zeus is going to get involved again here shortly, and he's sort of a prick, I think he'd totally tell Demeter Hades is just a very avuncular fellow, just because it would humiliate Hades. Zeus: THAT GUY IS WRONG IN THE HEAD. I mean, he gave his daughter to Hades. I think that if this!Hades had been in Zeus's place he would have given everyone puppies, and there would be far too many flowers, and all the other gods would take hideous advantage of him, and he would lock Zeus forever and ever and ever in the deepest hell of Tartarus and never, ever, ever give him any girls. See, Zeus is just a jerk. Hades is the one who's really nasty, deep down.
Speaking of words, the best thesaurus is wordnik. I don't know what happened to wordie, which was a site that, and I quote, "Is like flikr, but without pictures". You could basically pick words you liked and favorite them, and then see words other people favorited, etc. But anyway, looks like wordie got absorbed by wordnik, which at first put me out because I don't know wordnik; I knew wordie. BUT. Wordnik is like wordie except also with a dictionary and thesaurus, and the thesaurus is REALLY good because it's really extensive. What I want is when Sherlock Holmes is calling someone stupid, I get something like "hebetudinous" unlike thesaurus.com, whose most elevated sounding word in response is puerile. Wordnik is still not giving me excerebrous, although the delightful thing is it looks like you might be able to add words? Which would be nice.
(Speaking of words being all alike. Instead of thesaurus.com I had written thesaurus don't come. I think I think phonetically; these things seem to happen quite a lot.)
The best dictionary is still Free Dictionary. I like wikirhymer for rhymes. You might be asking why I have a rhyming dictionary when I have this rhyming problem. Well, it wouldn't be such a problem if my rhymes were all more slanty like, and there are less straight forward rhymes on wikirhymer. I don't know what kinds of rhymes they are, for I have never learned the kinds of rhymes, but anyway, wikirhymer has a lot of them.
I read, oh, maybe 6 pages of Deerskin today? And that way why I was able to do so much rewriting. I knew I wanted to do something similar with this one piece, and Deerskin helped me figure out what it was, even though it was not the same thing, if you know what I mean. I love reading things to see how things were done, and using the how without the what; it feels like cheating and yet no one can tell. I LOVE CHEATING.
I didn't get anything else done that I needed to do today, which included putting oil in my car. Maybe I'll get a milkshake and put it in me instead. What a charming plan! (wow, wordnik really didn't help with that one.)
Here's a writing thing for today. I'm finding it really hard not to make things rhyme. I do it like, all the time. The problem is, there's usually a rhythm to my writing. It goes a certain kind of way, which is funny, because I have no rhythm. But once I get started, things just seem to come out, and if I notice that they rhyme, I'm all like, "Oh, that's cool! I can tease that out even more!" and then I go to town. The problem is, things get sort of sing-songy that way, like when I realized that "more" rhymed with Pandora, and they were speaking of "all the gifts". It turned into, like, this series of riffs, and I had to keep Prometheus from snarking, because he's the Noble Hero of the myth, while Hades is the snarking one. I mean, Prometheus could be snarky! Just not in this one. What is Prometheus doing in a Persephone myth anyway, you say? That's a story for another day . . .
And then what really gets me is the way everything fits together, so many words are part of some other word; is it so wrong to use the word "debacchate" in a mythic story when you're not actually talking about Bacchus? Yes, it is, Joy. Then I start punning, and everything goes downhill from there. I . . . I could not keep Zeus from calling Prometheus an "avuncular fellow". Omg *head desk* As long as Persephone doesn't call Hades avuncular I think it's okay. Except that Zeus is going to get involved again here shortly, and he's sort of a prick, I think he'd totally tell Demeter Hades is just a very avuncular fellow, just because it would humiliate Hades. Zeus: THAT GUY IS WRONG IN THE HEAD. I mean, he gave his daughter to Hades. I think that if this!Hades had been in Zeus's place he would have given everyone puppies, and there would be far too many flowers, and all the other gods would take hideous advantage of him, and he would lock Zeus forever and ever and ever in the deepest hell of Tartarus and never, ever, ever give him any girls. See, Zeus is just a jerk. Hades is the one who's really nasty, deep down.
Speaking of words, the best thesaurus is wordnik. I don't know what happened to wordie, which was a site that, and I quote, "Is like flikr, but without pictures". You could basically pick words you liked and favorite them, and then see words other people favorited, etc. But anyway, looks like wordie got absorbed by wordnik, which at first put me out because I don't know wordnik; I knew wordie. BUT. Wordnik is like wordie except also with a dictionary and thesaurus, and the thesaurus is REALLY good because it's really extensive. What I want is when Sherlock Holmes is calling someone stupid, I get something like "hebetudinous" unlike thesaurus.com, whose most elevated sounding word in response is puerile. Wordnik is still not giving me excerebrous, although the delightful thing is it looks like you might be able to add words? Which would be nice.
(Speaking of words being all alike. Instead of thesaurus.com I had written thesaurus don't come. I think I think phonetically; these things seem to happen quite a lot.)
The best dictionary is still Free Dictionary. I like wikirhymer for rhymes. You might be asking why I have a rhyming dictionary when I have this rhyming problem. Well, it wouldn't be such a problem if my rhymes were all more slanty like, and there are less straight forward rhymes on wikirhymer. I don't know what kinds of rhymes they are, for I have never learned the kinds of rhymes, but anyway, wikirhymer has a lot of them.
I read, oh, maybe 6 pages of Deerskin today? And that way why I was able to do so much rewriting. I knew I wanted to do something similar with this one piece, and Deerskin helped me figure out what it was, even though it was not the same thing, if you know what I mean. I love reading things to see how things were done, and using the how without the what; it feels like cheating and yet no one can tell. I LOVE CHEATING.
I didn't get anything else done that I needed to do today, which included putting oil in my car. Maybe I'll get a milkshake and put it in me instead. What a charming plan! (wow, wordnik really didn't help with that one.)