The morning meme

10 Ways to Tell You're Reading a Story by Me (from hominysnark

1. Setting!

2. Fishsmoochies! (double points if it's girlfishsmoochies)

3. The monster gets the girl.

4. The monster is the girl.

5. Shadows, dust, ivory, and bones.

6. Joinywords!

7. Eliot, Rilke, Millay or Tom Waits references.

8. Angst and heartbreak.

9. A CCD glimpsed or mentioned in passing. (So far I've managed Cthulhu, Dagon, Nyarly, Hastur, and Yog.)

10. A character overcomes some sort of self-imposed exile. (Shut up, Urstory!)

11. And how could I forget--the big age difference between the MCs.

Doing the unstuck

Sometimes bitching really does help.

500+ words on Flotsam this morning. I had the stunning realization that I don't have to explain every frellin' thing in the backstory before I write this. No matter how I tell it, someone will be confused. Embrace the confusion! (Reading fishsmut before I went to sleep probably helped too.)

I'm not ready to embrace the confusion with Flood or Mirror, though, so those continue to stew.