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cpolkWords Today: 670
Words So Far: 5700
Why Did I Quit: That Was a Scene, Baby.
[09:20] Chelsea: Gads, writing.
[09:20] Chelsea: so here I am trying to find a good Early Chinese novel, because my character works in a rare bookstore.
[09:23] HaloAslant: yah, thank god for the internet though
[09:23] Chelsea: no kidding!
[09:23] Chelsea: it can turn any writer into an erudite genius.
...
[09:32] Chelsea: And I'm finding some fucking BEAUTIFUL Chinese poems I can quote in this story.
[09:32] HaloAslant: woo hoo!
[09:47] Chelsea: oh, I found the perfect one it's beauty it's beauty it's beauty.
[10:46] Chelsea: 670 words! All that and an allusion to Taoist mythology that combines the recurring image symbol AND a death threat!
[10:46] Chelsea: I fucking rock.
What the hell am I talking about: Bluebird, of course. One of the characters works in a rare bookstore, and she's got customers who are badasses, and they've come on the pretext that they're looking for rare books of Chinese Literature, but really they're lying in wait for him.
So hell, all of a sudden I need a rare book of Chinese Literature. So I Google around and finally hit on a beauty by T'ang dynasty poet Li Shang-Yin, that's in a book that's rare enough that the lone copy available on Amazon.com is worth a little under two hundred American dollars, even though it was published in 1989.
and inside that book is a love poem that references - wait for it - a Bluebird. and that Bluebird is a symbol for Immortality, and it wraps up beautifully as a threat to him, and he isn't even involved in the conversation. Delicious! I Love The Internet.
Words So Far: 5700
Why Did I Quit: That Was a Scene, Baby.
[09:20] Chelsea: Gads, writing.
[09:20] Chelsea: so here I am trying to find a good Early Chinese novel, because my character works in a rare bookstore.
[09:23] HaloAslant: yah, thank god for the internet though
[09:23] Chelsea: no kidding!
[09:23] Chelsea: it can turn any writer into an erudite genius.
...
[09:32] Chelsea: And I'm finding some fucking BEAUTIFUL Chinese poems I can quote in this story.
[09:32] HaloAslant: woo hoo!
[09:47] Chelsea: oh, I found the perfect one it's beauty it's beauty it's beauty.
[10:46] Chelsea: 670 words! All that and an allusion to Taoist mythology that combines the recurring image symbol AND a death threat!
[10:46] Chelsea: I fucking rock.
What the hell am I talking about: Bluebird, of course. One of the characters works in a rare bookstore, and she's got customers who are badasses, and they've come on the pretext that they're looking for rare books of Chinese Literature, but really they're lying in wait for him.
So hell, all of a sudden I need a rare book of Chinese Literature. So I Google around and finally hit on a beauty by T'ang dynasty poet Li Shang-Yin, that's in a book that's rare enough that the lone copy available on Amazon.com is worth a little under two hundred American dollars, even though it was published in 1989.
and inside that book is a love poem that references - wait for it - a Bluebird. and that Bluebird is a symbol for Immortality, and it wraps up beautifully as a threat to him, and he isn't even involved in the conversation. Delicious! I Love The Internet.
