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foxinthestarsI found Acchi Kocchi again. I was relying on Animesuki, and the group that was posting their torrents there seems to have dropped it, but at least a few others are still doing it and can be found on fansub.tv. That makes me feel better. Still need to catch up on that and Kids on the Slope. Hyouka keeps getting better. I also survived Earl and Fairy (it finished out less bad, but that was after ep. 9 ended in an attack of screaming, flailing DO NOT WANT), and I did promise myself Natsume Yuujinchou after it was done, although I haven't made good on that just yet...
In the current stuff I'm following, I love it all, but I feel like I'm missing a good dramatic fantasy. I mean, I'm perfectly happy to own a taste for slice-of-life shows, but they're not what I tend to get obsessed with and write fanfic about. Natsume might fill the gap for me, and I suspect it's not that they aren't there, but that the ones that are there are the mega- and meta-series that I'm not willing to commit to at this point.
On the writer's block, as I mentioned in comments on my previous post, I started reading "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg for the first time in many years, and had totally forgotten how brilliant it is. Maybe it'll help...
Also, recently I blundered into Peter McCarty's books and was reminded that a certain percentage of children's picture books are awesome works of art and poetry. I love McCarty's colored pencil style (as in "Hondo and Fabian" and "T is for Terrible"), so painterly and luminous. Of course, Maurice Sendak also passed away recently; I don't recall his books making a big impression on me as a child, but I think it was Colbert played the interview and he came off as such a charming old guy, and said something about how he didn't really write for children, he just wrote and then people said it was for children, and it struck me that the stories of children's books --- good children's books, the ones I like --- are not dumbed-down prose, but something more like poetry, like haiku.
I've even had ideas for a couple of picture books in the last week or few, if I could just get unstuck and do something with them...
In the current stuff I'm following, I love it all, but I feel like I'm missing a good dramatic fantasy. I mean, I'm perfectly happy to own a taste for slice-of-life shows, but they're not what I tend to get obsessed with and write fanfic about. Natsume might fill the gap for me, and I suspect it's not that they aren't there, but that the ones that are there are the mega- and meta-series that I'm not willing to commit to at this point.
On the writer's block, as I mentioned in comments on my previous post, I started reading "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg for the first time in many years, and had totally forgotten how brilliant it is. Maybe it'll help...
Also, recently I blundered into Peter McCarty's books and was reminded that a certain percentage of children's picture books are awesome works of art and poetry. I love McCarty's colored pencil style (as in "Hondo and Fabian" and "T is for Terrible"), so painterly and luminous. Of course, Maurice Sendak also passed away recently; I don't recall his books making a big impression on me as a child, but I think it was Colbert played the interview and he came off as such a charming old guy, and said something about how he didn't really write for children, he just wrote and then people said it was for children, and it struck me that the stories of children's books --- good children's books, the ones I like --- are not dumbed-down prose, but something more like poetry, like haiku.
I've even had ideas for a couple of picture books in the last week or few, if I could just get unstuck and do something with them...
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Date: 2012-05-24 01:28 am (UTC)(I haven't read your story yet. I want to give it proper attention and with catching up on stuff from being out of town and work and all, I've been a bit brainfried. Will get to it this weekend at the absolute latest!)
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Date: 2012-05-24 02:52 am (UTC)