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Character Building
January 15, 2004, 10:02 p.m. So, you know I can’t stay morose for long, right? I am the invincible squishy neon ball of bouncing-backiness. I went for a long-arse walk today. Started off taking a DVD back to the store, and then just kept on walking up the road. I bought a water bottle on the way, and spent some time in the park, and then I walked back home. I had my discman with me, though, which was good. Nothing lifts your spirits like pounding the pavement to Canned Heat by Jamiroquai. I love my Superhappyfunchick Mix : ) On a side note, nothing makes a quiet suburban street seem more sinister and dramatic than looking at it with O Fortuna as your soundtrack. I sat in the park today, writing out some character notes for my Aistrigh story. It’s been sitting on my computer doing nowt for a while, because I made some changes just after I wrote that first stab, adding in the sounds of the city, but then somehow managed to not save it. Disheartened, I left it, but I’ve started up again. My characters are baffling me, I can’t figure out what they want. One of them loves the city, but he doesn’t belong. The other one hates it – or fears it, more like – but I get the feeling she doesn’t feel alone. Or does she? I can’t tell. I know she has a family . . . but even if she doesn’t feel like she belongs either, what does she want? To leave, to stay, to learn to love the city? What about him, does he want a family? I don’t want to tie them up in a neat little package of him teaching her to love the city, and her making him feel like he belongs. Well, that wouldn’t be so bad, but it’d be boring if that was all there was to the story. Anyway. I think I need a plot : ) I think I should explore the city some more – I mean come on, a city that transforms itself, it’s gotta have a plot lurking in one of its corners!
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