I'll Be Writing Night and Day

[rxelyn]

 
picture from elb_the_prof

A small room with one table and one chair,
This man who writes, then cancels what he writes
Tears up the sheets, runs fingers through his hair;
His violent longing makes a fiercer chill
Than the sensed tilting of his hemisphere
Towards the frozen solstice, and he fights
A strange, oncoming ice-age of the will.

For him love does not burn, but chains him so:
The unspoken words lie heavy on his tongue,
Thoughts are like granite hurled into soft snow;
He holds a winter landscape in his mind;
All tracks, familiar roads are covered now
By a blank sameness; he is caught and wrung
In the nailed gauntlet of a polar wind.

And yet that wind blows only for the man
Thus damned to strive; one opening the door
Would see him there, and casually scan
His bent head and the slowly scribbled page
That's hidden by the sound; the draught would fan
Fragments of verses to the littered floor
As a false snowstorm falls upon the stage.

Stole this poem off my literature paper 4 exam. Seems somehow very fitting for this post on the preparations for Nanowrimo 08 :D did a crappy, rushed job last year that barely made the 50k mark. I am determined this time to try harder and produce work that I can proudly write my name on. I think I'll be doing 'Howl at the Moon' this time round... Rae isn't cooperating properly and I think I want to rename Kyrien...

... The name Gabriel sounds extremely good, lol. I think I saw this Gabriel lookalike this afternoon as I returned home. He had the same lips and defiant look... but unless Gabriel never grew any much taller, I doubt it. D: Oh well, childhood crushes.

In a not so recent interview with Mike Carey, he stated that for just the outline of Felix Castor, 40 pages were spent into creating this character. And I'm thinking... I only usually hit 1 to 2 pages for character development. From a professional writer, this is like just the tip of the iceberg! While I do know my characters, there isn't enough of them indepth enough that I feel terrible when I kill them off. Well, only Rae has been in my harem long enough... I mean, I developed him when I was like... 11? And he was originally a girl until I feel that the literary world in urban fantasy has been overrun with ass-kicking heroines. We need more guys to balance things out.

Howl at the Moon was originally meant as a parody of Twilight. Only with badass werewolves and no vampires. And a male main character. Because I write slash. But somehow, my brain decided that it would be more awesome to merge with the Sanguine universe that Rae resides in, even though that world has not even been fully fleshed out in. Oh well, Howl at the Moon will only be playing in a tiny corner of that sandbox. It's more of a stand alone hence, Sanguine shall be put on the shelf at the moment until Rae decides that he wants my attention.

 

Today's title is warped from Tokio Hotel's line from Monsoon; I'll be running night and day. XD