This was a particularly rich journaling morning, but it’s mostly short snippets.
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Cognitive dissonance is one of the most terrifying things I know. I should make a monster out of it.
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[For men,] 50 = the year of the patriarch, where you have to come to grips with the fact that you’ll never be one. That’s the “middle aged crisis.”
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Can you even write a thriller pantsing? [A few names of authors I have heard that do so] do it. So it’s probably a function of internalizing so many [thriller] plots.
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Wanted: co-writer. You must be able to: make maps, edit, and plot. Worldbuilding a must. Me: Characters, dialogue, and filtering the scene through character POV. What we will fight over: plot. Fame and fortune await!
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[Playing with a plot idea, discovering that I’m injecting a lot more tropes in it than usual, probably because I’ve been studying tropes lately] Studying tropes is giving my subconscious permission to use them more. Cheesily? Hard to say. I can’t write fast enough to keep up with all my good ideas, and this trope thing is only making it worse.
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I’m not joking about the co-writer thing, by the way. It would be a BLAST to work with someone who handed me a juicy high-fantasy world to work in at this point. However, it’s gonna have to be 50-50 royalties deal…
If you enjoyed this morning’s post, look around for a good high-fantasy GM that you know that loves worldbuilding and hates having their players screw things up…and email me with their name 🙂