'Harm's Way'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
The story would be a different twist on Poe's "Premature Burial."
I like "Hungry as the Grave," particularly since I found this:
Cruel as Death, and hungry as the Grave!
Burning for blood! bony, and gaunt, and grim!
Assembling wolves in raging troops descend;
And, pouring o'er the country, bear along,
Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snows.
All is their prize.
The Seasons: Winter, J. Thomson
There is another ballad similar to the "Unquiet Grave" .
A wife mourns her dead husband excessively, the dead husband comes back to comfort her. The results are not good.
Umm, obviously I don't remember the name.
Ooof. I have huge writer's block, made worse by trying to sort out chapter subjects that all seem to flow together.
I dunno, my mind went immediately to Hungry Like the Wolf and big hair bands.
Me, too, but that doesn't seem like a downside. I like Hungry As the Grave.
I have huge writer's block, made worse by trying to sort out chapter subjects that all seem to flow together.
Lay 'em out for us.
oh ... how about The Empty Grave?
Okay, I have so far:
The Atheist's Guide to Tragedy: The superstitious nature of my neighbors, the great lyme disease exorcism, focuses mainly on the twins across the hall.
I Could've Had a V8: My next door neighbor is a stripper in a Hell's Angels bar, a hairdresser in a hipster salon, and the house mother. We're the grownups, which is sort of sad.
The Pumpkin Man of Los Feliz Village (about the community garden, my city councilman, and the evil building manager)
Cobras and Matadors (about the restaurants, clubs, shops, and neighborhood gossip surrounding them)
The Lawnmower Ghosts (about the Mexican gardeners and maids who float through the neighborhood, invisible to almost everyone)
The Coke Machine Taunter of Hillhurst Avenue: About the homeless in my neighborhood.
This is the first half of the book. I have no idea what I'm doing for the second half. Mostly it's all sort of hazy stuff. I have a general idea for a chapter on the fire, perhaps to be titled, "The Liquor Store Is Always Open."
Well, I want to read it!
Are these chapters all written? Or are you looking for inspiration for a new chapter?
They're all half assed outlined!