Regarding your story idea, it seems a bit confused to me in one way - or should that be 'cluttered'? :-) I really like the idea of the standard lamp being rather sniffy about it's surroundings; I was wondering if it would make more sense for the lamp to be in somekind of junkshop or charity shop - discovering itself there after a house clearance or similar - it could start with it turning its light on and discovering its new surroundings to much displeasure; somehow that is quicker to establish than it being in a very messy domestic space; what you need to better resolve is the lamp's come-uppance - somehow, in it's desire to be better - it ends up worse (pride going before a fall and all that). The idea of it edging away and pulling out it's own plug is nice... I wonder if there's a variation on this you could create...
Evening Ethan,
ReplyDeleteRegarding your story idea, it seems a bit confused to me in one way - or should that be 'cluttered'? :-) I really like the idea of the standard lamp being rather sniffy about it's surroundings; I was wondering if it would make more sense for the lamp to be in somekind of junkshop or charity shop - discovering itself there after a house clearance or similar - it could start with it turning its light on and discovering its new surroundings to much displeasure; somehow that is quicker to establish than it being in a very messy domestic space; what you need to better resolve is the lamp's come-uppance - somehow, in it's desire to be better - it ends up worse (pride going before a fall and all that). The idea of it edging away and pulling out it's own plug is nice... I wonder if there's a variation on this you could create...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzg2jjH2z8E
Only not so poignant, rather more 'ha-ha'?