Moleskine notes

[ivyblossom]

I like to write about process. I find talking about what I'm doing helps me do it (metacognition and all that jazz), and it also invites and prompts others to share their process with me. And thus, I learn.

Because I like to talk about process, people occasionally ask me how I plot/world-build. My answer to this is that lately I write a lot in my moleskine notebook. Beyond that I don't go into a lot of detail. By just saying I write in a notebook, it makes it sound like I write meaningful things in a notebook, doesn't it.

I had some startling realizations today while on the train (and this is why i don't drive! You see? It's all coming clear now, isn't it!), and looking back over my notes, I thought it might be amusing to flip through my plotting/world-building moleskine and share with you some of the amazing insights I felt were worthy of notation at the time. These are all taken from the last two months.

K...oh WAIT. Hell. I think...SHIT. Hmm. Okay K. needs to...shit, no. Okay, he has...some sort of...he might need to...go home first. DAMMIT.

She isn't baking, she's a cook of some variety. Then a conversation, of sorts, where something important can come out. May need to change her name.

It's E. who says they should go to the drive in. She loves movies. Yeah, that will work. That's it!

It opens with the presumption that time has passed.

And then toward the end of the sce...or...no.

I wonder if it would be safe to say that the "threat" of sodomy becomes greater over time. My impression is that sex between men is more common the farther back you go. As you reach a point where sodomy is a thing you do, not the thing that defines you, there is both more and less stigma. Oscar Wilde got arrested for sodomy, after all. But you can probably do it once or twice as a taboo without having to ask yourself too many serious questions. D. can identify with whatever he wants.

I guess it could end with K. doing some other thing later, and seeing D. out of the corner of his eye, but not seeing him again. The disappearing guy. But at the moment: who is K? K, who are you?

Really struggling with this scene. Probably best to go forward and see what I need to find out at this point. Fill in later.

I'm sure you feel most enlightened now.