This morning I woke up sort of annoyed about something at work, and thanks to the sideways way brains operate immediately after sleep, I started thinking about the scene in Fight Club where Tyler Durden makes a human sacrifice.
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When I was a kid, if you had asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, and I thought you wouldn't make fun of me, I would have told you that I wanted to write science-fiction novels.
When I was 12, I wrote 60 pages of a sci-fi story that might still exist on some unlabeled 5-1/4" floppy disc in my parents' house. I haven't seriously tried to write prose fiction since.
I've slowly, doggedly worked my way through most of the Planet Stories books that Erik sent me, and the pulpy stories of Mars, Earth, and Venus have seeped into the cracks.
2 comments:
Careful what you feed your writer brain, Jeff. It may create something truly monstrous on you....as you might recall if you read the many Lovecraft pastiches that have passed through the pages of Doctor Strange over the years. ;)
Steven
an unabashed pulps fan and comics fan
PS: Yes, I've got the first 3 Essential Doctor Strange collections, and they're very odd when read in long sittings. While Watchmen works better in one sitting, some of these story arc only reveal their flaws when read quickly in succession (as, I'm afraid, do some pulps).
Yeah, I read most of the first Haunted Tank collection in one sitting, and I practically dropped the book from exhaustion.
I'm getting less afraid of the monstrous, and more afraid of the mundane in my life.
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