All stories are autobiographical, even when they're clearly not

[capri0mni]

Telegram from my brain:

Still working on damned skrenzy script stop Not finished with the rough draft stop Strange philosophy of love revealed stop What does it all mean stop Please Advise stop

So yeah. In my script, a wicked witch* tries to use an ambitious military man as a pawn in her magic spell in order to give her daughter ultimate political power. The military man doesn't realize he's a pawn, and thinks that all the power will be his.

Meanwhile, the forces of Nature (animal, elemental, spiritual) unite to thwart their attempts at every turn. In thwarting the magic spell, Nature itself steers the paths of my protagonists toward each other, so that every single thing they think they're doing to assert their own free will (especially my heroine) actually draws them closer to a preordained fate.

Taking my story at face value it would appear that I believe a) free will is an illusion and b) The Universe may indeed have a soul-mate picked out for you, but you might not like the Universe's choice.

Not exactly your Hollywood Formula Rom-Com...

I'm not sure if I really believe that free will is an illusion, except in the sense that human minds are as integral to the Gaea Mind as every other living thing on Earth. And Gaea is bigger than us all.

I definitely believe b, though. At least, I don't trust "romance" as far as I could throw it... um, a sack of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Your standard Hollywood Rom-Com might cheer me up for an hour or two, after leaving the theater, but leave me depressed for a full two weeks, after that... the emo equivalent of Chinese Take-out. Love takes work, and time and then, more work. Acknowledging this seems far more romantic to me than indulging in cotton candy fantasiess.

But I'm also thinking that maybe this is one reason why every one of my attempts at on-line dating came up dry (excepting clamnebula. I did get friendship out of that). I just can't bring myself to play the romance game.

And now, a poll!
[Poll #1027963]

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*She's only a witch for the genre's sake. If this were a skiffy movie, her role would be the mad scientist: someone who tries to enslave nature against its will... Her hut is filled with anachronistic technology: electric light bulbs, gramophone, other stuff I haven't thought of yet. ...Hey, now that I think about it like that, you could say that my script is about Nature vs. the Military-Industrial Complex.

Comments

[brassfire.livejournal.com]

Wow I want to read this when you're done.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thsnks. Knowing that there's someone who wants to read it will help me finish it...

[brassfire.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you could call the witch an Alchemist without stretching the genre too far, possibly?

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, except that alchemists most often worksd within the court, with royal patronage, and her main motivation as a character is that she's an outsider who wants in.

Also, alchemists are most analogus to chemists, today. And my witch is more like the mad scientist in The Island of Doctor Moreau (I know I'm spelling that wrong).

[pedanther]

Which? "Moreau"? No, you got that right.

On the other hand, "analogus" is not spelt like that. (Not to mention "worksd"...)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I hate the fact that you can't go back and edit your comments to fix typos in the same way you can fix typos in your main entry, other than deleting the whole thing and starting over from scratch...