Dear Universe:

[stillsostrange]

I am really not that clumsy. This coffee spilling business needs to stop.

Thank you.

Thank goodness for black clothing.

wicked_wish mentions the struggling writer as protagonist and how annoying it is. I agree. Annoying as all get out. (I also agree that Stephen King does well with writers as protagonists. Bag of Bones is my personal favorite.) I think we've all figured out the annoying neurotic parts of writing on our own, thanks. And while I can listen to my friends talk about writing all day long, I really don't need it in fiction. I'm not particularly fond of either grubby apartment/struggling writer stories, or of fantasy-writer-goes-to-fantasyland stories. (The former are boring, the latter make me jealous.)

Of course, I have a great fondness for academics as protags, and I suspect that annoys some people too. Alas and wailaway.

Did I have something else worthwhile to say...? Guess not.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I like academics, as long as they aren't creative writing profs. Except in Francine Prose's The Blue Angel, in which the stupid ass creative writing prof wrecks his life by doing all the things they usually get away with in such novels. That made me happy. Because I am mean.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Nonono creative writing profs. I like anthropologists and medievalists and geologists and physicists and people who can think about fun and interesting things inbetween bouts of monster-wrestling.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And when you have a mathematician who just can't get to the key insight of their proof, it feels like a plot point rather than just the writer whining.