Dangerous Ray's New Hot Six

[hirez]

You are allowed to scribble the plot down or diagram it or whatever. It's not like being a taxi-driver where you've to do the Knowledge. Although that would be good: The licensed public author office.

"Right then mister 'iggins. H'in yer own time, take me from a mysterious casket found in a junkshop on the Old Kent Road via a long-lost bruvver in Gants Hill to a satisfactory denoument on Parliament Hill."

(I wouldn't mind a denoument on Parliament Hill myself. Splendid views and only a short totter from Gospel Oak station.)

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[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

BTW: Have you read Self's Book of Dave? I'm rather enjoying it at the moment, and it strikes me as the sort of thing that might whack your bonobo.

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

You're not alone in this kind of thought:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b008dd10/b008dc8r/

(from 18:35 onwards, although the whole thing's worth a look if you've not been watching it recently)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. I must admit that was probably in my head already. Isn't it?

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

You can't actually say that... it's like racism or some shit...

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

If I didn't know better I'd say you had the germ of a recursive story hatching in your noggin.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I don't know. The meta-story is pretty much covered in 'London Orbital' and NGaiman got there first with Neverwhere.

On the other hand, I really really like the idea of some random story rooted in the psychogeography of an area. (I'm also sad to have missed easterbunny's street-name-wandering)

Although it would all be a bit Dan Brown.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Well, what are the means of production ?

(1) Wander psychogeographically through a strange area.
(2) Write story.
(3) Profit ?

Sounds like the kind of thing that starts with a map, a pin, and a D20.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

More or less. Though semi-obviously I favour Worcestershire and the flat bits of Gloucestershire, because they're vaguely home and it's relatively easy to peel back the time-layers in order to produce a written version of some anatomical textbook as applied to the landscape.

(There was some utterly magic geologist's mapping tool that Andrew Marr was playing with on the telly the other week. Want.)

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the psychogeography thing works better or worse in a familiar area.

I'm inclined to the idea that familiarity will make it worse. though I am not sure I could advance any theoretical argument for that view.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. I have found many more strange things to look at and new ways to think about places when I've actually looked at them properly, rather than just flywheeling familiarity.

Think like a cubist and carry a rubbish camera.

(Oh. Rodchenko and Futurist exhibitions at the Tate next year)