Writing House and Dream

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Currently Watching: House

I took a break from watching the Twilight Zone when my father managed to get me to watch a few episodes of House. I’ve always been interested in the show since I saw the teaser for the first season but it’s taken me awhile to get to watching it. Based off the first season and a half, it’s catapulted into my “best shows ever” category which also includes Genshiken (and Genshiken 2), Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and Welcome to the NHK. Every character is interesting , it’s brutally funny, there’s exploration of humanity and society brilliantly mixed in and I’m always open to good mystery, though it does get a bit Star Trekky when the characters start rattling off medical lingo. I’m a fan of shows that have complex interpersonal relationships between characters who aren’t the best of friends, and this really delivers on that front. I find House to be a very relatable character mostly due to his drive to solve the puzzle, his desire to upset the social norms just to see what happens, and his fear of change and intimacy that can lead to even more damage. After about 30 someodd episodes, there’s really only one storyline element that I considered very out of place, and that was when Cameron temporarily self-destructed after having AIDS blood coughed on her. Otherwise, I’ve loved the situations the cast have been put into. My only worry is that the show is going to start getting too ridiculous as the seasons wear on.
I had an interesting dream the other night, most of which I can’t recall anymore. The one thing that was really interesting is that for some reason, there was an alternate history of the world brought up where a single quote turned the pre-WWII USA into a literal fascist dictatorship, and I was spending time trying to figure out which events would’ve still happened. I had figured that WWII would’ve still ended with an Allied/US victory, the Cold War still would’ve occurred, and Manifest Destiny would’ve been realized at some point. I wish I could remember what the quote was. I actually dreamed that I had woken up and written it down and then continued to ponder on it, only to later actually wake up and forget the quote.

I’ve had an itch to write recently, mostly story ideas for a Star Trek type deal among the other things I’ve written in my idea notebook. Star Trek fanfiction may sound ultra nerdy, but I love a setting that leaves me open to do literally any kind of story I want while still retaining a regular core group. Unfortunately, I lack the focus to keep it up, and also am my own worst critic, especially with character dialogue. How do you writing types get over things like this?