Day 3
It’s been slow, but it can’t be helped. Well, it’s an improvement on yesterday anyway. I’m at the build up in the story and I’m trying to deromanticize the fantastic, while romanticizing the commonplace. It’s technically different from anything I’ve done before because when I do short fiction nothing goes to waste. When I do strict comedy the story is secondary to the laugh factor. I am writing “Rurrenabaque” sequentially, and so far I’ve been using details and characters that are misleading and don’t meaningfully lend themselves to the plot as a whole. I think the book will be more vivid for it.
What else then? Creatively, I’ve been watching clips from a public access comedy show called Pretty Things. Much better than anything on, ewww…television. I’m also learning how to seat people in a room to optimize learning efficency. I’ve been practicing with stuffed lions, but you can’t teach them anything.