There's a term in the Turkey City Lexicon called Dischism, which boils down to authorial intrusions in the story. The author imposes their surroundings and mental state on the character. Or to quote from Turkey City:
Authors who smoke or drink while writing often drown or choke their characters with an endless supply of booze and cigs. In subtler forms of the Dischism, the characters complain of their confusion and indecision -- when this is actually the author's condition at the moment of writing, not theirs within the story.
This comes into play regarding this morning's work on Stag. I hit my snooze button about four times before finally getting up. (My snooze clocks in at five minutes, which is actually pretty annoying, but good if you ARE trying to get up.) Needless to say, I was sticky-eyed and sluggish, and rather resentful of morning intruding on my slumbers. So I wrote a scene, unplanned, where Elriah gets chewed out by Fleder and Caspia for lying abed too long and not showing up on time to her lessons. (But I can tie this too her newly wiggly dreamstates, so it actually fits in the story. She's got to start making her first prophecies soon.)
This all comes on the heels of three days of rather limited writing and
me not getting up in time to make a full effort at writing. Despite my
four snoozes, I had time today to wiggle in 500+ words, but if this
scene makes it past future revisions, you can read Fleder's lecture as
being a lecture to myself, as much to Elriah. Kinda fun to write in a
weird way.
Dischism <-I find this to be a very interesting concept. :) Now, i feel like reviewing some of my previous writings for manifestations of this peculiar mood(?!)
Posted by: feisty_(de)constructor | 01/25/2010 at 12:23 AM