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One of the things I have always known as a writer is that I steal from others works, unashamedly and unabashedly.
I don't steal words, per se, but ideas, and concepts and pairings and characters --near all whom I write have been touched by another authour, save perhaps my Vegetables1 and a few of the school-stories.
I don't especially believe that this is a particularly bad thing, most especially since, the longer I have a world to shape, the more I shape it to be my own, and not just something stolen for me to play in. But everything I read (and to a lesser extent, watch) touches off a sequence of ideas, and gives me a starter for something else to make.
The most recent rip-off started very very obvious2: I want to write interactions between a priest and a whore, preferably two who are rather forced together. The sword and sorcery pairing is ubiquitous in modern fantasy, (Tarma and Kethry3, I send my love to thee) somehow I feel the priest and whore -albeit perhaps more subtle- should show just as frequent.
(Would his Lordship Christ and the Lady Magdalene count, do you think?)
But yes. Is lovely fun to watch characters breathe life --starting as just the mere concept, of a wandering priest and a traveling whore, then moving to find how and why their lives should intersect. Neither has a name quite yet, but I begin to see images --the warrior priest, in crisp white, with unruly dark hair to his shoulders, and eyes like ice and ocean, and the Queen of the underworld, clad in all colours under the sun, with stolen breeches, and baubles dripping off her arms and neck.
They call each other brother and sister, hissing the words with hatred. It is a rare thing to be born with a Companion, two people with a matching pattern of spotty pigmentation circling their wrist, but not so rare that neither had heard it. And of course, it is expected, once you are of an age, to go searching, letting the draw of your heart drag you closer to that match, the other half of your perfect pair.
We'll see what happens with them. And it will be nice to watch, as these two clearly stolen become instead something that is clearly my own.
~Sor
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1The Grand Adventures of Eric and Tom has been a webcomic I've wanted to write for at *least* four years. The main character is a tomato named Eric, and a tiki named Tom. There's also a stick figure called TSFWD (That Stick Figure Waiter Dude, no I am not creative with names shut up!) and an occasionally mindless carrot called Shelly.
2: Obvious, at least, to those who've read some of the Kushiel books, and will understand when I say I've just finished Kushiel's Dart.
3: From Mercedes Lackey's "Oathbound, Oathbreakers, Oathblood" trilogy, and a pair of lovely female heroines who actually got their *start* in a series of anthologies entitled "Sword and Sorcery". They're *wonderful*
I don't steal words, per se, but ideas, and concepts and pairings and characters --near all whom I write have been touched by another authour, save perhaps my Vegetables1 and a few of the school-stories.
I don't especially believe that this is a particularly bad thing, most especially since, the longer I have a world to shape, the more I shape it to be my own, and not just something stolen for me to play in. But everything I read (and to a lesser extent, watch) touches off a sequence of ideas, and gives me a starter for something else to make.
The most recent rip-off started very very obvious2: I want to write interactions between a priest and a whore, preferably two who are rather forced together. The sword and sorcery pairing is ubiquitous in modern fantasy, (Tarma and Kethry3, I send my love to thee) somehow I feel the priest and whore -albeit perhaps more subtle- should show just as frequent.
(Would his Lordship Christ and the Lady Magdalene count, do you think?)
But yes. Is lovely fun to watch characters breathe life --starting as just the mere concept, of a wandering priest and a traveling whore, then moving to find how and why their lives should intersect. Neither has a name quite yet, but I begin to see images --the warrior priest, in crisp white, with unruly dark hair to his shoulders, and eyes like ice and ocean, and the Queen of the underworld, clad in all colours under the sun, with stolen breeches, and baubles dripping off her arms and neck.
They call each other brother and sister, hissing the words with hatred. It is a rare thing to be born with a Companion, two people with a matching pattern of spotty pigmentation circling their wrist, but not so rare that neither had heard it. And of course, it is expected, once you are of an age, to go searching, letting the draw of your heart drag you closer to that match, the other half of your perfect pair.
We'll see what happens with them. And it will be nice to watch, as these two clearly stolen become instead something that is clearly my own.
~Sor
MOOP!
1The Grand Adventures of Eric and Tom has been a webcomic I've wanted to write for at *least* four years. The main character is a tomato named Eric, and a tiki named Tom. There's also a stick figure called TSFWD (That Stick Figure Waiter Dude, no I am not creative with names shut up!) and an occasionally mindless carrot called Shelly.
2: Obvious, at least, to those who've read some of the Kushiel books, and will understand when I say I've just finished Kushiel's Dart.
3: From Mercedes Lackey's "Oathbound, Oathbreakers, Oathblood" trilogy, and a pair of lovely female heroines who actually got their *start* in a series of anthologies entitled "Sword and Sorcery". They're *wonderful*
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As it currently stands, the drabble has them as a wandering male warrior-priest and a female queen of the street ruffians sneakthief-whore. Nothing says I have to only write one version of the same story --hell, I've written multiple versions in tandem *before* (albeit with less difference than swapped gender)
~Sor