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Feb. 9th, 2012 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alicia_hThe sky was so white we thought it might snow this afternoon. Come three o'clock there had been no snow, nor the streaks of red gold sunlight across the tall white chimneys or vents that loom on a cramped skyline of buildings between the town centre and the university tower. What came instead was a faint mist that obscured some of the further away buildings, like the clock tower of one of the churches. I had to walk home in the mist and unceasing rain. I wouldn't have caught a bus because Manchester road was heaving with cars. Besides, if I walked, I could fool myself into believing I had wandered into a film Noir, which would actually be quite a pity when I reconsider - the impact of my Doctor Who scarf, purple bag and bright orange hat combo would be completely lost in black and white!
I popped into the library before I headed home from town and bought two more 50p CDs and borrowed another two. The discs I borrowed are operas Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse and Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw. I was going to listen to The Lighthouse after I'd finished writing this but this was before I remembered that one of the ones I bought is the Band's Music from Big Pink, so that is going on... now. At least it would have if the sound had been plugged in, which is now after a minute or so's faffing.
While I was still at the library, I went into the reference library, thinking I might do some writing in there before coming home but I realised I'd be better off using the last of what passes for daylight on days such as this. I did pop into the lending library first and came across a book of "Poems and Readings for Funerals". I decided against taking that out. Perhaps I'll search it out again when I need to get into a morbid and melancholy frame of mind for writing, but a cold winter night it's not particularly needed or especially desirable. Instead I picked up an anthology of poems about the sea, which should provide some more inspiration for the lighthouse side of my lighthouse/flyer story. Incidentally, the working title for the story is still Circumnavigate Infinity but I sometimes can't help feeling it should perhaps be titled or subtitled From the Lighthouse.
When I consider the parts I can remember of the draft I wrote in November the amount of text that dealt with my flyer desperately wishing she could leave the lighthouse, or almost getting herself killed attempting to do just that, greatly outweighed any discussion of the time she spent as a flying adventuress in the 1930s. I almost had a panic about how she could have been part of the Air Transport Auxiliary if she was stuck in the Channel Islands from 1940 onwards. With the clearly mind that two months separation with the occassional glance over my draft, I realise now that my vague idea that she might escape definitely has to be the case, be it during a commando raid (only if the island is Guernsey, Sark, or a fictionalised combination of all the interesting parts of the various islands) or in a stolen plane or perhaps even her own plane, which has been rescued and painstakingly repaired and essentially rebuilt. In which case we have a 'present' to the story during my flyer's ATA career. Oh... there's the plot I was worried about not having in November!
I popped into the library before I headed home from town and bought two more 50p CDs and borrowed another two. The discs I borrowed are operas Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse and Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw. I was going to listen to The Lighthouse after I'd finished writing this but this was before I remembered that one of the ones I bought is the Band's Music from Big Pink, so that is going on... now. At least it would have if the sound had been plugged in, which is now after a minute or so's faffing.
While I was still at the library, I went into the reference library, thinking I might do some writing in there before coming home but I realised I'd be better off using the last of what passes for daylight on days such as this. I did pop into the lending library first and came across a book of "Poems and Readings for Funerals". I decided against taking that out. Perhaps I'll search it out again when I need to get into a morbid and melancholy frame of mind for writing, but a cold winter night it's not particularly needed or especially desirable. Instead I picked up an anthology of poems about the sea, which should provide some more inspiration for the lighthouse side of my lighthouse/flyer story. Incidentally, the working title for the story is still Circumnavigate Infinity but I sometimes can't help feeling it should perhaps be titled or subtitled From the Lighthouse.
When I consider the parts I can remember of the draft I wrote in November the amount of text that dealt with my flyer desperately wishing she could leave the lighthouse, or almost getting herself killed attempting to do just that, greatly outweighed any discussion of the time she spent as a flying adventuress in the 1930s. I almost had a panic about how she could have been part of the Air Transport Auxiliary if she was stuck in the Channel Islands from 1940 onwards. With the clearly mind that two months separation with the occassional glance over my draft, I realise now that my vague idea that she might escape definitely has to be the case, be it during a commando raid (only if the island is Guernsey, Sark, or a fictionalised combination of all the interesting parts of the various islands) or in a stolen plane or perhaps even her own plane, which has been rescued and painstakingly repaired and essentially rebuilt. In which case we have a 'present' to the story during my flyer's ATA career. Oh... there's the plot I was worried about not having in November!
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Date: 2012-02-09 09:25 pm (UTC)talking of which; Music from the big Pink, i don't think it'll disappoint. :))
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Date: 2012-02-09 10:03 pm (UTC)And Music from Big Pink absolutely did not disappoint. Neither did Lost in Space, which I've just been listening to and it's gorgeous. <3
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Date: 2012-02-09 10:13 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Gunners
or seen it ?
http://youtu.be/GDPfVykzva4
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Date: 2012-02-09 10:15 pm (UTC)and yes, fine - fine - music choices :))
<3
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Date: 2012-02-09 09:35 pm (UTC)<3
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Date: 2012-02-09 10:17 pm (UTC)Preparing for the jobs I'm going to have writing for Doctor Who and Sherlock in 5-10 years time counts as job seeking, doesn't it? ;-)
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Date: 2012-02-09 10:21 pm (UTC)