The Motions

[rowyn]

I keep going through the motions. What would he say?

I found that written in a yellow paper notebook I brought with me on the bus this morning. It has no context around it. It came after the first draft of "She's Having a Baby", which I wrote in June, so I set it down recently. But I don't know what I meant. What motions? Who is he?

It sounds like the opening for a story. About a woman whose husband has died, perhaps. But that's a little too prosaic, isn't it?

And I meant something else when I wrote it, I'm sure.

But I don't know what.

Comments

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. =) A mystery from your own mind!

Oh yeah, and I had some odd dreams that actually might fit with my ... er ... goodness, I need a name for it. "The other weird dream I had more recently, after those that inspired Rulesbreaker, and which might inspire me to write another short story, though this time delving into science fiction rather than fantasy per se." I'd rather get far enough along to fill in some blanks to actually tell the story, though, rather than to paraphrase it for you. I figure you would find it more entertaining that way. =)

[rowyn]

I quite envy you those dreams. My subconscious is seldom so obliging. :)

Though I did have a really splendid dream last night (not, obviously, the one mentioned above). I didn't write it down because it was more like a vacation than a story -- no plot, no characters, it was just *fun*. I dreamed that Lut and I had gone to a game company to watch a demo for a game together. The "demo" was shown on a large screen, and it was a camera-eye-view of swooping at high speeds over a realistic land- and city-scape. However, though ostensibly I was "watching" this, the experience was totally immersive -- I felt like I was really in the middle of this scene, swooping low to skim over a boardwalk, then streaking upwards to glide over rooftops, and flying through a park. Including getting stuck on a tree. I could "see" Lut next to me as we went through this, and at one point I asked him, "Did you get stuck there, too?" He said yes, and that confirmed for me that we weren't really independent avatars in this thing -- we were watching the same thing, or riding along on the same person, however you wanted to look at it.

Still, it was enormously fun. :)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Considering the context, I think of an AI locked into a logic loop and pondering how to get out of it-- what would her creator say?

[rowyn]

Heehee. Cute. :)