We talked lightheartedly about the possibility of Baby coming early and complicating things, and she said something about my being able to wrap this thesis up in two weeks. I don't think that's possible, especially considering the essays I need to grade and the ten page paper I have to draft (both by next week), but ... perhaps I could conceivably have this thing ready for binding and committee signatures by the end of the month? It would be nice ...
Meanwhile, I got an email from an old professor asking if I would submit something to the literary journal I used to edit in undergrad. So soon I will have another publication under my belt. Pretty awesome!
What patterns have you discovered in your writing? Are you working to counteract them, or are they good patterns?
ReplyDeleteApparently when I write stories about married couples I have a sort of good spouse/bad spouse pattern. :-P That's kind of an oversimplification, but roughly, it's there.
DeleteAlso two of the stories involved dead babies (miscarriage or other loss). O_o (I wrote or at least started both of them before I was even married, so ... but it kind of creeped me out when it was pointed out to me.)
I don't think they're good or bad per se, especially now that I'm aware of them and don't let them take over. I guess they're like my own personal potential cliches.
A friend of mine writes a lot of fanfiction. Between them and her general fiction stories, someone is always pregnant and/or there are always children. It got to the point where she would tell me that she had a new story idea, and I'd immediately ask if someone was pregnant or had a kid. It was amusing. She's kind of a recluse and I don't think she's ever had a boyfriend, nor does she seem interested (outwardly, at least). So it's hard to determine why she has that pattern. Freud would have a field day with your pattern of good spouse/bad spouse. Something to explore. Perhaps... you are playing with your fears of a tense marriage and a miscarriage/loss of child and exploring what life would be like after those events.
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