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puppetmaker) wrote2010-02-15 04:43 pm
puppetmaker) wrote2010-02-15 04:43 pm
LJ Idol 6 Wk 14 The Place than can not be
Living with a writer can be interesting. You find yourself talking about the strangest things. The what-ifs or how would you do something are just part of the day. About a week ago Peter came out of his office and asked if I could help him with something. I said sure. He said turn around I need to figure out if I can strangle you from behind. I turned around and we worked for a bit figuring out how he might be able to strangle me from behind with his bare hands. I am sure if someone were to looking through the window, it would have looked like he was trying to kill me or at least domestic abuse. We sorted it out and he went down and wrote what he needed to write for the comic book he was working on.
I was a fan of Peter’s work before I met him. I liked his writing style. He amused me and made me laugh. I remember reading Supergirl and enjoyed it. I didn’t really notice who wrote it until a later but I knew that I eagerly awaited the next issue. Now I get to watch and read these things months before the rest of the world. On the one hand I don’t really take part with discussions of comic books that my husband writes any more but on the other I get to know what happens while fans speculate about it. I have a hard time remembering where we are in the story line on the newsstands and in the comic books shops since I read scripts and see pages as they come through the house.
Some of the most fun is being part of the planning process for a project. Figuring out how the story is going to work and how the characters are going to act and react to the situation being presented to them. There is a certain rush that I get when I know that my idea is going to be the one implemented in the story.
Our conversations to anyone outside of fandom must sound very weird. I can remember I was helping Peter sort out some story points for Fallen Angel and we were talking about whether a character was going to be murdered or die as an accident. We were going through the ways to make an accident look like murder and how to make murder look like an accident. Our waitress was use to overhearing this kind of talk from us so she didn’t bat an eyelash but there were a couple of women on their lunch break who apparently got a little alarmed at our conversation and told the hostess on the way out about what they had overheard. The hostess smiled and informed them that we were writers and were probably working on a book or something. Everyone who worked at the restaurant got a good laugh but in some ways we were lucky that we were in a friendly environment.
I can tell when Peter has gone off to some other place that doesn’t exist other than in his head. His eyes get a far away look and he purses his lips. When he returns to our realm, I ask him where he has been. He tells me what he is working on in his head. His head is full of stories that haven’t been told and even though he is typing as fast as he can, I don’t think that all the places he has seen will be seen by readers, which is a shame since I have enjoyed my visits there.
This has been my entry in the LJ Idol contest. My partner in crime this week is the every lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adpaz.
I was a fan of Peter’s work before I met him. I liked his writing style. He amused me and made me laugh. I remember reading Supergirl and enjoyed it. I didn’t really notice who wrote it until a later but I knew that I eagerly awaited the next issue. Now I get to watch and read these things months before the rest of the world. On the one hand I don’t really take part with discussions of comic books that my husband writes any more but on the other I get to know what happens while fans speculate about it. I have a hard time remembering where we are in the story line on the newsstands and in the comic books shops since I read scripts and see pages as they come through the house.
Some of the most fun is being part of the planning process for a project. Figuring out how the story is going to work and how the characters are going to act and react to the situation being presented to them. There is a certain rush that I get when I know that my idea is going to be the one implemented in the story.
Our conversations to anyone outside of fandom must sound very weird. I can remember I was helping Peter sort out some story points for Fallen Angel and we were talking about whether a character was going to be murdered or die as an accident. We were going through the ways to make an accident look like murder and how to make murder look like an accident. Our waitress was use to overhearing this kind of talk from us so she didn’t bat an eyelash but there were a couple of women on their lunch break who apparently got a little alarmed at our conversation and told the hostess on the way out about what they had overheard. The hostess smiled and informed them that we were writers and were probably working on a book or something. Everyone who worked at the restaurant got a good laugh but in some ways we were lucky that we were in a friendly environment.
I can tell when Peter has gone off to some other place that doesn’t exist other than in his head. His eyes get a far away look and he purses his lips. When he returns to our realm, I ask him where he has been. He tells me what he is working on in his head. His head is full of stories that haven’t been told and even though he is typing as fast as he can, I don’t think that all the places he has seen will be seen by readers, which is a shame since I have enjoyed my visits there.
This has been my entry in the LJ Idol contest. My partner in crime this week is the every lovely
adpaz.
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It is fun but it also can be frustrating where I could end debates that are getting mean with a simple answer.
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In which case it's probably just best to avoid the debates!