Hell on Earth anthology

[ritaxis]

Well. I'm just not a very hellish writer, I guess. I have a concept: "Hell is a bordertown factory, and there is no individual redemption." But not much else, and two weeks to write it. I wrote a paragraph and wanted to vomit.

I don't like the concept of hell. Because hell is the place where it goes on being like that forever, right? If it doesn't go on like that forever, then it's something else, not hell. But I do like the idea of meeting another anthology deadline. The corollary of the above, by the way, is: "but there is redemption . . . just not individually." As in "don't mourn, organize."

I haven't been reading the Move On email properly and I missed the whole thing yesterday, the emailing, the calling, and I'm not on a team like I should be because I was sick the night of signups. Now I am planning to fix it.

I think, since I have everything, plot, characters, futurific goodness, for the Future Washington, I will write that (and keep plugging on Afterwar and see whether I can actually come up with a viable story for Damned Nation.

Oh, Frank's here. I can ask him about the medical part of the futurific goodness.

Comments

[crow-fjord.livejournal.com]

One man's hell is another couple's slide show.
That was one of Rod Serling's concepts of hell...

The most elaborate depiction of hell based on the classic Dante concept was filmed in 1922.
Clips from that lost Italian movie can be seen in Witchcraft Through The Ages and is best appreciated in the fuller sequence found in the Spencer Tracy 1939 version of Dante's Inferno.

Dante Alighieri's tome was a political as well as "divine" comedy, considering the various people he put in hell!

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

I think Hell must be without the possibility of change. (Although, that means that Heaven would be Hell too. Hmmm.)

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't be the first to come to that conclusions . . .

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Nice blog!
I'd say it's a hell of a lot simpler being an athiest, since that makes the whole heaven/hell issue a non-issue!
However, my chosen genre is quasi-medieval sword and sorcery, so I spend a lot of time trying to get inside the heads of my religious and lapsed friends. Ho hum
Z