demiurgent: (Writer)
demiurgent ([personal profile] demiurgent) wrote2006-05-22 01:15 pm

Then and now.

Thirteen years ago, I could cheerfully write any Superguy story I wanted, asserting the most banal bullshit and getting things wrong gleefully with a toss of my head and saying (in my best Ed Wood, Jr. voice) no one's going to pay attention to the little details.

Today, I work on a super hero story and have to stop and think oh shit. I have a throwaway sentence about close up magic. Now I have to buy and read seven books -- including books by Bill Severn and Penn & Teller.

I'm not sure I've gained anything.
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[personal profile] scarfman 2006-05-22 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)

There's an advantage to writing in a genre which has a fifteen-hundred-year history of redactor errors.