Reader: I liked it.
Writer: You didn’t love it?
Reader: I really liked it. The dialogue was very good.
Writer: You didn’t like the plot?
Reader: The plot was fine!
Writer: Only fine? Where did I screw up?
Reader: I thought the main character was especially convincing.
Writer: You hated all the supporting characters?
Reader: (shoots writer in the […]
Archive for September, 2005
Plot vs Character, Film at 11
Posted in General on Sep 15th, 2005
I slept terribly last night. Dunno why, but I kept waking up from vaguely disturbing dreams. I never have nightmares with monsters and doom in them, I just dream about being in real-life situations where people are blowing me off. Last night it was someone who asked me to come on a […]
We watched Bones last night, while it didn’t make me want to claw my eyes out, and DB acquitted himself honorably, the lead character grates–how the heck does she get through life without anyone pressing assault charges? And the holographic thing was silly; real forensics is fascinating enough without them having to make […]
Apparently England won something to do with bugs recently. I expect congratulations are in order. (Actually, having read Murder Must Advertise, I probably know more about cricket than most ‘Muricans. Which is not saying a lot, but…)
Episode 3 of 3D is in final edits! Yay! Unfortunately as we’re so far […]
“Mightier Than The Sword” is now up at the usual place.
Thoughts for today: Smoked salmon does not go well with tossed salad. At least, not in quantity.
3D, she says cautiously, progresses. I was going to make cookies last night, but worked on Act III instead. And this morning I thought of things […]
I had intended to give walking a to work a try this week. It’s only a mile, and what with the gas situation it seemed like a good idea–though as it’s still pretty hot even in the mornings, I might have to experiment with wearing grungy clothes to walk in and changing into something […]
Canon, fanon, and the mutability of character
Posted in General on Sep 5th, 2005
Back when I was involved in Elfquest fandom, there was a phenomenon known as ‘clone characters.’ What it involved was a writer or an artist taking some aspect of a real person or a fictional character from some other book, movie, comic, etc.–anything from just the look to the entire character concept–and turning them […]
My summer_of_spike story, “Mightier Than the Sword,” can be found here:
Part I
Part II
Gakked from Kita
Posted in General on Sep 4th, 2005
www.livejournal.com/users/humming_along/36684.html
Possibly this will cast some light on why certain theological positions make me livid.
Rehnquist is dead. About the only possible ray of light in the gloom is that it would be difficult to find someone more conservative to replace him with, but I’m sure Bush will try.
Charity Ficlet #1
Posted in General on Sep 4th, 2005
This is for treiza, who asked for bitey. This is actually a scene from a longer story which I haven’t written yet, so at some future point you’ll get a whole story to go around it. This ficlet takes place after A Parliament of Monsters, and contains one majorish spoiler for that story.
She […]