Smash! Bang! Lack of wallop!
Dec. 1st, 2008 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceIt would seem that I can no longer write action scenes. At all. I do understand the theory, and I used to have the practice at my fingertips; my characters were effective, they made stuff happen.
Nowadays, those rare times when stuff happens, I only want to talk about the people watching or catching up later or investigating the consequences of the action. Urgh. Years ago, I did say that I was bored with plot - but I was joking, 'k? I didn't mean for the gods of textuality to take me seriously. They have stolen from me my ability to tell a plain tale at the cutting edge, and I resent that.
None the less, I damn well am going to finish this page, if nothing more tonight. On, on...
Nowadays, those rare times when stuff happens, I only want to talk about the people watching or catching up later or investigating the consequences of the action. Urgh. Years ago, I did say that I was bored with plot - but I was joking, 'k? I didn't mean for the gods of textuality to take me seriously. They have stolen from me my ability to tell a plain tale at the cutting edge, and I resent that.
None the less, I damn well am going to finish this page, if nothing more tonight. On, on...