W is for writing. All writing. Whether it's bad SW fanfiction from
the pen of a twelve year old, or the neat cursive of that tranny at the
end of the bar, sharing the latest drunken funny moment. It could be a
novel that seems tame by our standards, but set the publishing world on
its ear back in the day. (I'm thinking the Fancy Dancer by Patricial Warren).
It could be poetry; haiku, stylish and clever, or free verse, for the guys
who can't make it rhyme. It could be filk, homage to song lyrics, where
you fight to make not each word, but each syllable work in the original
context. It could be amazingly bad writing, a movie where you know the
lines before the actors recite them, and you can't help wondering of the
lead actor, "Did this guy have to pay a bill that month, or what?" It could
be fanfiction, of course. The genre where so many of the best writers in
the world have found their calling. Where the click of a mouse can bring
you some of the finest written word, and you wonder why the hell Simon
and Schuster is bothering with a badly spelled, horribly edited, typed
by monkeys offering like "Chosen" when a story like "Sad Lovers and Giants"
isn't making the author a jillion dollars a second for being so damned
good! Oh, and scripts--movie scripts, tv scripts, yeah, okay, throw comic
books in here too, cos there are some writers in those fields that have
figured out that words have their own music. They make words dance. From
"Aren't there any weapons in here?" to "No time for love, Dr. Jones" to
"Don't think--just pick up that phone and make it happen." The idea that
a string of nonsensical scribbles that we have attributed sound to can
come together to make a larger sound, and those are combined with structure
and rules to make sense somehow, to paint a picture in a reader's head
that captures a moment, a mood, a feeling. It's boggling.
Oh, and for you updatey types--nothing new here--same ol' twink drama,
just new names for the kids. Although there is that whole Pride thing coming
up soon and you just know that's going to be a great big can of "wha-fuck?!"
*L*
Apparently W is also for Wha-fuck?!