ways_back_room | Sep. 21st, 2010

Sep. 21st, 2010

A great question from Gen:

What, if anything, is your character constantly monitoring, calculating, thinking about, etc with a corner of their brain?

I don't mean 'everything,' though heaven knows I have some characters who try to manage that. I mean that one little idiosyncratic thing they're always on some level aware of, whether or not they ever talk about it. For example, Piotr is always has a little corner of his brain keeping track of the structural integrity of things around him, from pencils to barstools to floorboards. (He's a big strong man, who turns into a bigger stronger man who weighs 500-odd pounds. Breaking things accidentally is a definite concern.)

How about yours? What phase of the moon it is, where they can get more coffee, when sunrise is coming, who's looking at them, how long till they have to take a medication, something else?

yakalskovich

Sorry about suddenly disappearing on everybody in mid-thread last night.

This was already the second time Alice (my internet) conked out while I was watching 'Mad Men', at precisely half past one at night, so I guess they have a fixed automated maintenance spot on the night from Monday to Tuesday. Luckily, once something is streamed, it stays streamed, so I at least finished the episode and my usual running commentary, saving that offline.

My apologies to everybody I fell off the net and dropped thread on!

sardonicynic

So, um, remember that time I took an unofficial hiatus and dropped off the face of the ~~planet~~ community?

(Funny, neither do I.)

( the one where crys facepalms and dons her rambly pants )

realmrsreynolds

If your pup has any reason to give a crap, here's a post to go up on Friday about Sallie's birthday. :D Essentially for any point that day at all; outside, inside, whatever.