Remember how I said that research invariably leads me to new writing ideas? Well, the Sainte Anne mental hospital must have got me thinking about earlier psychoanalysts because I created a character today who has a fascination with Freud. His name is Stephen Maher:
Back in his office, Stephen spent a few minutes polishing his spectacles before calling the AI. The spectacles had belonged to his grandfather and provided no optical enhancements whatsoever, but they did provide some much needed time out. They also made him look like a young Sigmund Freud, or so heβd been told.
Now, the weird thing is that I wrote that paragraph without any clear memory of whether Freud wore glasses or not. This is what I found:
Followed by this:
Both photos are of Sigmund Freud and come from the Freud Museum London.
I was tempted to draw spectacles on the younger image, to give myself a reference pic for ‘Stephen Maher’, but then I got cold feet. I’m more into Skinner than Freud, but defacing his portrait would have felt terribly disrespectful!
Anyway, thanks to Stephen Maher and Freud, my wordcount today is a much more respectable 1161. My imagination is still creaking from lack of use, but I can feel it loosening up, a little bit more each day. Life’s good. π
cheers
Meeks
November 8th, 2018 at 6:07 pm
Good for you! There is nothing more satisfying than seeing what our writers’ imaginations can come up with. π
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November 8th, 2018 at 7:34 pm
Yeah. The first few days were tough as the words simply wouldn’t come. Now I’ve rediscovered why I love writing. π
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November 8th, 2018 at 9:40 am
Hmm. You might have to delete “young” from that sentence. π Good to hear your imagination is working well.
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November 8th, 2018 at 3:12 pm
-giggles- all things are relative my dear Watson! At 65, everyone appears young to me. π
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November 8th, 2018 at 4:15 pm
I know exactly what you mean. π
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November 8th, 2018 at 7:34 pm
π
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November 8th, 2018 at 3:28 am
All I can say is thumbs up for your research!
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November 8th, 2018 at 3:19 pm
-grin- Thank you! It feels more like play than research, but I’ll take what I can get. π
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November 7th, 2018 at 4:21 pm
An interesting idea – I would’ve put the glasses on just so I could stick it up on the wall to look at when i wanted to chat to him about what he needed to do …
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November 7th, 2018 at 7:51 pm
We’re still at the getting-to-know-you stage. I know he’s well-meaning and a bit prissy. Haven’t got to his ethics yet. When we do, I may turn his picture into a dart board. π
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November 8th, 2018 at 12:24 pm
He did have some … interesting, belief systems. π
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November 8th, 2018 at 3:11 pm
Freud? lmao -oh yeah. I always thought he might have some suppressed issues himself. Skinner was more my style. Then again, Skinner was weird too. π
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