Feeling much better about some personal matters, and have a bit of faith developing in justice and the law. My lawyer seems to have suddenly realized that my dramatics are based upon a passion for and some knowledge of fairness rather than menopausal hot flashes or an innate sense of overreacting or greed.
What I’m learning is tolerance and acceptance of different ethical standards that will broaden my repertoire of characters. In Storytron, there is a dependence upon the "original" writer understanding and providing a huge variety of character traits and tendencies. This is the premise behind the whole program; that people are not only very different in their beliefs and values, but that they will react differently to different situations that may not necessarily be their normally expected behavior. Ethics is teaching me that there is no definite right or wrong reaction in many situations that call for a morally based decision.
While I’m semi-abandoning Storytron for now–mainly because I found it too time-consuming to learn, but it also rubbed my writing instinct the wrong way. Perhaps just my current mood and creative bent that overwhelms Barthes in his insistence on making the writer the reader; it is a wholly worthwhile theory and practice, and yet there is value as well–in my mind, at least–in the writer who entertains as a solo performer and doesn’t require total audience input to be effective. After all, my interpretation of Willie singing and playing would most certainly not be enhanced by my singing alongside in harmony.
For this moment in time, Storytron is the setting up of the tent and tables before the party. The pain in the ass part of the show.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology