Yes, that does make me the nut in this nutshell

[mrissa]

How Carter Hall revisions are going, in a nutshell:

I knew there needed to be a prologue set on Lughnasa.

Carter was balking like a balky thing.

I had started the prologue five different wrong ways. They were wrong because they were boring. Boring, boring, boring. Boring is always wrong.

I knew I needed to write the prologue before I could do the rest of the revisions.

I panicked and put in a bear.

To quote Arlo Guthrie, "I'm not proud. Or tired." Except I still am a little bit tired. So mostly I'm not proud.

I think the prologue is going okay now, though, and I should have it done before I make myself eat lunch, and no, that doesn't mean I will not make myself eat if Carter starts balking again.

Comments

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

"I panicked and put in a bear" needs an icon.

[aedifica]

The bears know the best jokes. (That's the name of some elisem earrings I have, so it must be true!)

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the bear.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't really know what icon, though. It seems like the right icon might be key, not just any icon. Possibly I will make timprov take a picture of me next to the bear enclosure looking shell-shocked, but it seems like it would be difficult to get a good me-picture and a good bear-picture at once and then shrink it to icon-size and fit in text.

Icons are hard. Let's go shopping.

I didn't put in matociquala, I put in a bear bear, and I don't have a picture of the two of us, or I'd be tempted.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Errm. Thanks. I think.

Carter does not get eaten by the bear at this time.

Nor by eels. So.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Actually she is partly there so that there is something Carter can deal with better than everything else Carter has to deal with.

Which is maybe, y'know, indicative, when being chased by a bear to start out with is the least of your problems.

[rosefox]

oh shit bears

[skzbrust.livejournal.com]

Putting in a bear is often a much better idea than it first appears. This is also true of goats.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I should be careful, though, because last time I put in mice on the theory I could take them out later, they were completely inextricable mice, and I am now thinking the same is true of the bear.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

It would be an interesting sort of novel in which the narrator got eaten by a bear in the prologue. I kind of want to read that now.

[guppiecat]

You can use any of these if you want.

[aedifica]

Do you think it would all be a flashback, or would it be narrated from inside the bear?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That is quite a few bears! Thank you.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

I am somewhat disappointed that if the Large Hadron Collider destroys the world (preserving only the single server), the site will continue to insist that all is well.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

That seems like a potentially useful response to panic.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer the latter.

(Although having it all be a flashback leading up to being eaten by a bear would be an intriguing exercise as well. Maybe there would be intermittent breaks back to the present, with the narrator being slowly devoured?)

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Mice are generally very hard to extricate. You might consider Karelian bear dogs -- they're apparently quite successful when it comes to controlling difficult ursines.