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My father used to say, Don't let the Turkeys, Get you Down. I remember posting a comic strip with this slogan on my dorm-room door in college. Okay vaguely. It was a long time ago. And the slogan? Easier said than done.

Had to delete the last post, sorry. Particulary to hankat and uriancalliope - thank you for your comments. But there was too much constrained rage in the post and I wasn't really angry about the things listed, so much as about other things non-related that I can't talk about. Mostly work related, somewhat personal. None of which I am remotely comfortable discussing online for a whole host of reasons. Mainly it's dangerous to discuss certain things on the internet.

Problem with anger is when you can't get rid of it, it festers. And when the things causing it don't change...it builds. I find myself flucuating between rage and depression.
Feel a little with it, at the moment.

I hate February. Bad things always happen to me in Feb and Jan. It's a trend. Off to find something funny online...assuming it exists today. ;-)

Die! Writer! Die!: When the Characters Become More Real & Important than their Creator

[This thing is chock-ful of typos and I'm too bloody tired to proof or edit it, so...I hope you'll forgive me. I'll try and edit it tomorrow. Okay it is tomorrow, later tomorrow. ]

I am irrationally attached to your characters. There. I said it. I’ve reached a point where even if I don’t like everything a work of fiction does, I believe the characters enough to the point where I almost react to them as if they are real people. Do you know this feeling? It’s where a show or a book can fuck up and do some ridiculous plot you hate and you don’t care about but you still watch or read along because their faces and I just want to hold them all so tightly. - Mark Watches regarding Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Series third season episode "Lovers' Walk".

http://markwatches.net/reviews/2012/02/mark-watches-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-s03e08-lovers-walk/

I don't know if this is true of anyone else. But every so often I will run across something said in a book, a post online, a blog, an email, or a tv show that sort of states clearly and succinctly what I've felt, but didn't quite realize it. It's obvious of course when I read it. And I think...yes, THIS, exactly.

Today, I came home and scan read this week's Entertainment Weekly, which had a lengthy article entitled Shippers. And it talked about how people become obsessed with relationships or characters in a television series - specifically in relation to the Twilight books (which turned shipping mainstream even if it existed long before that) and television series such Castle, Bones, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries (four shows that I don't really ship anyone in and of the four, only one that I'm still watching.) Apparently David Boreanze (ex Angel, now Booth on Bones) has become a "mainstream" shipper icon thanks to Buffy, Angel, Bones, and the fact that he is 6 foot with chiseled model good-looks. (Which probably means James Marsters is the icon for the cult underground shippers like myself...I never did like the popular boys. Geek may have gone mainstream, but I haven't.)

And of course...there's my past history with tv shows and books or stories in general where I've fallen head over heels in love with the characters. I could care less about the writer - some nasty god or goddess who takes the characters in directions that do not always meet with my approval. I've been known to write better and more interesting outcomes for my beloved characters inside my own head.

( Breaking the Fourth Wall or Die Writer Die, When Characters Become More Important than the Writer, contains spoilers for Sherlock Holmes novels, Star Trek Next Generation, Buffy, Angel, and the first version of Battle Star Galatica, also mentions Star Wars. )

Off to bed. I've got a headache. I think I've been writing too much this week. None of it creative writing. I miss that. And it boggles my mind when people tell me that they need internet programs to get themselves to write daily - at least 750 words a day. I think - if you need someone or something to make you write, maybe you shouldn't be writing? Life is to short to make yourself do things in your spare time that you don't enjoy. I love writing. I write better than I breath, unfortunately this is very true. Be better health wise and spirit wise, not to mention for sleeping and singing, if I breathed better. I don't need writing courses, I need breathing courses and singing courses...I've decided I'm going to try to learn how to sing. It's never too late for that? Right?

[This post was edited this morning. I added a few bits and corrected things. Such as Rechenbach Falls.]