CAPSLOCK FANTASY IN MAH HEAD!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

agenttrojie had a meme going a few days ago: What Fictional Character Are You Most Like? I like open-ended memes!

My answer? No doubt. I am Bilbo Baggins.

Evidence:

-We are both mostly content to be invisible
-But we periodically get wanderlust,
-And go off on crazy adventures.
-On these adventures, we are resourceful when we have to be.
-Although we complain about it a lot.
-Both of us have a certain natural immunity to things that others can get addicted to—the Ring for him, alcohol and such for me.
-Not that we’re entirely immune! And we are not exactly virtuous. We do not always do the right thing, but we try.
-We both love soup food.
-We both like to write.
-Both of us are short, round, curly brunet(te), and hairy

Pretty much covers it, no?

A timely question, because I’m feeling rather hobbity lately—watchin’ Lord of the Rings again, trying to find a good fantasy saga. (Anybody got a recommendation?)

Both of these are a result of something that happens at times: my own little headhobbits are getting noisy as part of my brain’s decision to have ALL THE GOOD IDEAS EVER. When this happens, it’s impossible to get them to line up in an orderly fashion. All I can do is alternate between furious scribbling in flurries of ink and paper and pixels, and wandering around in a daze while the hobbitses, wizards, pirates, shapeshifters, sprites, final bosses,* dragons, arhods,** snowy-riders, licensers, and trolls all carry on madly in my head. This is making me even more absentminded than usual. It is hard to hear you jerks over all these jerks.

Being creative is hard, yo.

But damn, it’s also fun. This is one of the best parts of being a writer. And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a bit more typing up I can get done before I go to sleep.


*I have awesome final bosses going. Y’all will just about fall down when you get to the OGYAFE’s final boss.

**I’m mostly in a fantasy mood in this manic phase, but my big fluffy aliens get to join the fun because they’re big damn fans of CAPSLOCK FANTASY SAGAS in their own right. Someday I’ll write one of their sagas, but for now they do seem to be liking the Lord of the Rings.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

I don't know whether you'd like it or not - for one thing, I read it enough years ago I'm not sure whether I'd still like it or not today, and for another, there have been other books I've liked you haven't before, so I'm not sure of how well I can gauge whether you would or not - but I really remember having liked Journeys of the Catechist quite a bit when I read it, and having wondered what you'd think of it on occasion since then.

Of course, it's possible that I'm way, way, way off, that the author is on your Do Not Read List or that it's offensive for reasons I didn't notice at the time, but if that turned out to be the case, while I'd regret having made you waste time and money on it, it'd still be instructive and probably entertaining for me to learn about why from you.

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

We both love soup

is that a Best In Show reference?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

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Of all the absurdities of that movie, the one thing that sticks with me has to be that line.

Fortunately, my sister is of a similar persuasion. We quote that line back and forth all the time.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I've no idea if you know any of these already or not, but some Fantasy Series that I like:
Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksennarion
Jennifer Roberson's Sword Dancer/Sandtiger&Del Novels

Not really Series, but still good Fantasy:
Lois McMaster Bujold's "5 Gods" Novels (The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, The Hallowed Hunt)
Robert Howard's Conan Stories. Make sure you don't get any of the ones written by someone else, no one since has gotten the character right. Insist on original Howard.

[tomatocaco.livejournal.com]

Have you read any of Sean McMullen's Moonworlds Saga? His writing's hilarious and he makes great characters. It's been a while since I've read them, but a quick peek at a few paragraphs made me add the books to my reading pile again.