I recently have become addicted to Dexter. The show is on Showtime, so there's some language, but not as much blood as you would think considering the shows subject matter. Dexter, you see, is a sociopathic serial killer... but he only kills murderers. While the ethics and morals of this in the outside world are debatable (not mine however) it's everything else about him and how he lives his life with people that feel and love, which he doesn't, which is the real fascination with the show for me. I would wager that the first episode is PG-13, but I couldn't be sure. His sister in the show has a spectacularly bad mouth, and flaunts it a lot lol. But if you're looking for something different, something really different, try it out.
As for my own sociopath in my book, I've decided to rework the story, while I was telling a story about something I found interesting, the story didn't match the subject matter very well, and it needs to 'click' you know? If it doesn't click for me, its not going to click for everyone else. So, back to the drawing board somewhat.
-A
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Plato's got nothin' on me
So, I wrote myself into a corner a few days ago and I was feeling kinda lost in where I was headed with my character. I mean, he was supposed to be this really lost soul and what not, but he was just depressed and lonely, not damned. I wasn't telling the truth about him I realized, so I sat down and wrote out a new conversation he had with someone in the past. I wrote an entirely new character, but the right one I was trying to write from the beginning. This is good and bad, good because now I can write how he would truthfully act in a given situation, and bad because I have 40 pages of him NOT acting that way lol.
School is... school. My philosophy class is going to be a cinch. Thinking abstractly about values and perspectives is something I do naturally, as well as writing them down. So, it's nice to have one class I can just do and not have to worry about.
On a more personal note, I've been going through some... well I don't know what it is, but it sucks lol. Anyway, the suckiness has caused me to grow uneasy in my complacency and moderately sheltered socially life. I would like to have claimed that I made this realization and grew in this way this summer, but the truth of the matter is that isn't what happened. I cheated. I got all the appearances of an improved and happy life, but with one swift (anticipated) kick I was out treading water alone again, wondering how it had happened and wondering WTF was happening to me. Emotional story short, I've decided to work on actively getting stronger, instead of just allowing the appearance of it. Stronger in every way possible, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. I'm not saying I AM at the moment, but making these decisions has sure helped me feel it already.
-A
School is... school. My philosophy class is going to be a cinch. Thinking abstractly about values and perspectives is something I do naturally, as well as writing them down. So, it's nice to have one class I can just do and not have to worry about.
On a more personal note, I've been going through some... well I don't know what it is, but it sucks lol. Anyway, the suckiness has caused me to grow uneasy in my complacency and moderately sheltered socially life. I would like to have claimed that I made this realization and grew in this way this summer, but the truth of the matter is that isn't what happened. I cheated. I got all the appearances of an improved and happy life, but with one swift (anticipated) kick I was out treading water alone again, wondering how it had happened and wondering WTF was happening to me. Emotional story short, I've decided to work on actively getting stronger, instead of just allowing the appearance of it. Stronger in every way possible, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. I'm not saying I AM at the moment, but making these decisions has sure helped me feel it already.
-A
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