There have been times when stories appear in my brain fully formed and all I have to do is write them down. That’s how “Laughing Curse” has struck me; I dreamt the story last night and now it’s bouncing around in my brain.
The only thing I wish is that I hadn’t been woken up and I’d been able to see the whole thing. That would have made me so happy.
It shouldn’t be too long before I let you all meet Santiago and Edgar, man adventurers, or something.
I don’t even know what I was thinking when I started this 🙁
The first time he saw her, Jimi knew that she was the One. The Neo to his Trinity.
She was all lean muscle and leather, her body sleek and smooth as dolphin skin. She looked like a hard woman, and the idea of it had him squirming.
She was everything he’d been dreaming of.
“All right, let’s go,” he said, striding forward. At the same time he accessed his data node and sent a quick message: I accept. Your money is being transferred as we speak. Half now and half when I leave.
So yeah. There’s a reason why I like to write full notes when I come up with a story idea. That way when I’m flipping through my notebook later I can figure out what the heck I was thinking, especially if I was inebriated at the time.
This might possibly be an S&M piece, or some kind of true love story, or I don’t even know 🙁
I watch all these kdramas and they warp my notions of reality. I think that I sympathize more with straight forward characters like Dong Yi and Han Tae Yang because that’s pretty much how I am. Though I think they give themselves more trouble than they really need if they would just be honest with people; not about their more serious secret, but the smaller troubles they get into.
Half these dramas would simply fall apart if one character would turn to another and just lay all the facts out on the table. Instead, everyone has to hold everything all bottled up and creep around all over the place.
Sure, that kind of super melodrama is interesting for a number of episodes, then it just gets repetetive. You want the characters to quit moping around all the time and buck up. At the very least, you stop feeling sorry for the characters and you just think that they should totally cut contact with each other because they would be much better off.
“Bachelor’s Vegetable Store” is strangely compelling for a story about a guy selling vegetables, but I think that they’ve kind of lost track of the charm and have drifted into ridiculous territory. Also, they introduced some side stories for the supporting characters, then they don’t follow through with them. We just get a tiny taste at a time and it’s actually very frustrating.
I was willing to watch 60 episodes of “Dong Yi” because it was just that attention grabbing and entertaining. There were characters that I really cared about and wanted to see get a happy ending.
With “Bachelor’s Vegetable Store,” I’ve kind of gotten to the point where I think Han Tae Yang should just cut his losses and find some other girl to love, one that would actually appreciate him. I just think that she should face up to the fact that she’s more interested in comfort and money than she is in love, and cut the ties; it would be a kindness to just let him go. But there’s no way she’s ever going to do that because she’s selfish. She doesn’t even care enough for him to protect his life from a woman that has shown a willlingness to do horrible things to people.
I’m so disgusted by her, that I think I would appreciate it if there were longer scenes in the secondary characters’ lives to break the tension. Like I have my suspicious about Chan Sol’s situation, but I kind of want to have that proved; that or I would really like an interesting twist. And I’m kind of curious about the seemingly homeless bachelor with the angsty past.
Winners of ebooks:
Jean P
Mimi Rose
Shadow
Ashley (shadowestr)
Grand Prize winner:
Cristina C
All winners will be contacted by email shortly. Thanks for entering and I hope you all had a great time 🙂
P.S. Like I promised there’s something cool for everyone that entered. So for every other entrant, there’s a free copy of “Ersatz” in your future. Emails will be sent out soonish.
