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summer_sparrowwhat is it with old plots coming back to haunt me?
I saw a terrible miniseries about Attila last night that reminded me of my Mongol/Time Travel story that was originally a Hun/Time Travel story, until I realized that Mongols are teh cool. And that Gengis Khan could take Attila down any day.
It's entirely possible that I'm somewhat too much of a history geek.
Also, what's the thing with categorizing writers? It's not enough that people get a bajillion labels stuck on them every day, you get labeled there too.... I really don't understand. I bring this up because I was asked for help on a story yesterday, which was of no interest to me- D&D style fantasy- because I'm the "fantasy geek." I don't know where they got that, really. I read certain sorts of fantasy, yes, and write it...but I read and write scifi, and historical stuff, and intrigue, and a crapload of nonfiction history books, too. So...I dunno. I had a point originally. I guess I just got annoyed at that. Don't know why, really. It just got to me. Maybe 'cause I'm not really in so much of a fantasy mood lately. Ironic, since I'm trying to write fantasy...
I saw a terrible miniseries about Attila last night that reminded me of my Mongol/Time Travel story that was originally a Hun/Time Travel story, until I realized that Mongols are teh cool. And that Gengis Khan could take Attila down any day.
It's entirely possible that I'm somewhat too much of a history geek.
Also, what's the thing with categorizing writers? It's not enough that people get a bajillion labels stuck on them every day, you get labeled there too.... I really don't understand. I bring this up because I was asked for help on a story yesterday, which was of no interest to me- D&D style fantasy- because I'm the "fantasy geek." I don't know where they got that, really. I read certain sorts of fantasy, yes, and write it...but I read and write scifi, and historical stuff, and intrigue, and a crapload of nonfiction history books, too. So...I dunno. I had a point originally. I guess I just got annoyed at that. Don't know why, really. It just got to me. Maybe 'cause I'm not really in so much of a fantasy mood lately. Ironic, since I'm trying to write fantasy...