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Mar. 8th, 2008 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkso Mah Novel is in the form of the diary of one of the characters, which was mostly inspired by reading Pepys's Diary. Pepys wrote about everything in a largely unvarnished way -- the current entry as I write this is about his ongoing urinary tract issues -- and it's striking how often he goes out and does things and sees people. I frequently need to mine him for ideas of what people did after work, before electronic forms of entertainment.
I gave up watching TV quite some time ago, I probably wrote something about it. I was actually nervous about doing it, because I was definitely a person who watched a lot of TV, but I didn't like that about myself. I would come home from work and turn it on, and after I'd finished online, if I was bored I'd turn it on again. I had cable at this place, which was left over from when it was my mom's place -- she was also a HUGE tv watcher, and in fact got me into most tv shows that I liked. But I was like... for one, I am poor and cable is an unnecessary expense, and for two, I don't like that I sit here and watch TV. I could stop, but as long as it's available I probably won't. It's not like lack of TV actually prevents me from watching shows i TRULY would like to see, because I can always acquire the DVDs or download episodes.
I wouldn't say that having no tv has made me into a more well-rounded or social person. :P But it does remove at least one timesink. To some extent that time has gone into fandom, and now into WoW (both of which I consider far better pastimes than changing channels for hours, because they actually involve other people and accomplishing SOMETHING), but also reading, practicing the piano, walking, going to the cafe and writing. Sorts of things that Pepys would do maybe. :P
Hm I didn't start thinking this was going to be about tv, I meant to write about how writing in a diary form has made it so much easier to continue writing, because even if I don't really know what's supposed to happen next, I can always write the next day, so at least I'm not completely blocked and writing nothing.
I was also going to say how I don't know how Pepys and my protagonist find the time to write down so much of what they do. I can write an LJ entry every so often, but I don't think I could stand describing what I actually did all day, every day. Partly because it's usually pretty boring (to other people) and often exactly the same. But I don't say that in a despairing tone... I like it. Routine pleases me, I don't like not knowing what to expect. I think it would also put a lot of pressure on me trying to think of what I was going to write in my diary, and change what I would actually do, trying to make it interesting. I probably would not make a very good diarist. :)
I gave up watching TV quite some time ago, I probably wrote something about it. I was actually nervous about doing it, because I was definitely a person who watched a lot of TV, but I didn't like that about myself. I would come home from work and turn it on, and after I'd finished online, if I was bored I'd turn it on again. I had cable at this place, which was left over from when it was my mom's place -- she was also a HUGE tv watcher, and in fact got me into most tv shows that I liked. But I was like... for one, I am poor and cable is an unnecessary expense, and for two, I don't like that I sit here and watch TV. I could stop, but as long as it's available I probably won't. It's not like lack of TV actually prevents me from watching shows i TRULY would like to see, because I can always acquire the DVDs or download episodes.
I wouldn't say that having no tv has made me into a more well-rounded or social person. :P But it does remove at least one timesink. To some extent that time has gone into fandom, and now into WoW (both of which I consider far better pastimes than changing channels for hours, because they actually involve other people and accomplishing SOMETHING), but also reading, practicing the piano, walking, going to the cafe and writing. Sorts of things that Pepys would do maybe. :P
Hm I didn't start thinking this was going to be about tv, I meant to write about how writing in a diary form has made it so much easier to continue writing, because even if I don't really know what's supposed to happen next, I can always write the next day, so at least I'm not completely blocked and writing nothing.
I was also going to say how I don't know how Pepys and my protagonist find the time to write down so much of what they do. I can write an LJ entry every so often, but I don't think I could stand describing what I actually did all day, every day. Partly because it's usually pretty boring (to other people) and often exactly the same. But I don't say that in a despairing tone... I like it. Routine pleases me, I don't like not knowing what to expect. I think it would also put a lot of pressure on me trying to think of what I was going to write in my diary, and change what I would actually do, trying to make it interesting. I probably would not make a very good diarist. :)
