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Gentlefolk,
May. 1st, 2018 10:50 pmThe first draft of my 2016...2017...2018 Big Bang has been submitted.
Woohoo?
Woohoo?
Gentlefolk,
May. 1st, 2018 10:50 pm- The first draft of my
2016...2017...2018 Big Bang has been submitted.
Woohoo?
The Other Human this morning: I'm sorry you didn't get your story in shape for the Sudden Crash.
Me: blink, blink. Blink, blink.
Me: (lightbulb) Ohh! (cracking up) You mean the Big Bang?
OH: (nodding) That. 'Course, from my perspective, what I see is, desperate fast typety, typety, typety, typety, hit SEND, Sudden Crash.
Me: Fair point. More coffee?
Me: blink, blink. Blink, blink.
Me: (lightbulb) Ohh! (cracking up) You mean the Big Bang?
OH: (nodding) That. 'Course, from my perspective, what I see is, desperate fast typety, typety, typety, typety, hit SEND, Sudden Crash.
Me: Fair point. More coffee?
I had a conversation with someone in email this morning, and I hope they don't mind my repeating what I said then, here. I've been away from the computer and teh internetz all day, so I'm posting this now.
I want to congratulate all those writers who submitted a draft by midnight last night! I wish you all smooth sailing, good betas, and ready words from this point to your posting date.
See, on Thursday I admitted that I could make word count, if I pushed really hard. But if I'm honest, I still don't have a clear idea of one main character's storyline in this--what do I want him to do? And I've no clear idea of the ending. It's very much something I'm going to have to wrestle with for a few months. I may post it serially on my LJ and AO3. Or I'll almost certainly do those More Than timestamps I've been promising for two years. And the sequel-ish thing to Headlong I've been wanting to write.
I want to congratulate all those writers who submitted a draft by midnight last night! I wish you all smooth sailing, good betas, and ready words from this point to your posting date.
See, on Thursday I admitted that I could make word count, if I pushed really hard. But if I'm honest, I still don't have a clear idea of one main character's storyline in this--what do I want him to do? And I've no clear idea of the ending. It's very much something I'm going to have to wrestle with for a few months. I may post it serially on my LJ and AO3. Or I'll almost certainly do those More Than timestamps I've been promising for two years. And the sequel-ish thing to Headlong I've been wanting to write.
So in case there are any of you who visit my LJ periodically and who are waiting on a BB from me? Not this year. But, but--timestamps! Sequel-ish thing! That you've been asking for! And probably BB next year, if Wendy still wants to wrangle one.
Meanwhile, all applause to Wendy for herding cats again this year, and applause to every writer who turned in a draft and has a story to tell. Go get 'em. The artists will be waiting to pounce on your summaries, and the rest of us will all be waiting for your post date!
Meanwhile, all applause to Wendy for herding cats again this year, and applause to every writer who turned in a draft and has a story to tell. Go get 'em. The artists will be waiting to pounce on your summaries, and the rest of us will all be waiting for your post date!
what to do...
May. 9th, 2014 09:41 amI am not a Kevin Costner fan. The bloom fell pretty quickly off the rose of our relationship when he decided mid-movie that Robin Hood had an Indiana-ish accent, and I realized Prince of Thieves would have been a nearly-perfect movie with a Kevin of another name (Kline) in the role.
My preference for his absence on whatever screen I was watching was cemented the year both Wyatt Earp and Tombstone were released. Tombstone was flashy, with wonderfully cast characters, some in roles I'd never imagined for them. Earp was grittier, in many ways more realistic, and more honest. But two-thirds of the way through my only sitting, glorying in Quaid's Doc Holiday, I realized Wyatt Earp would have been a superb movie with the removal of forty minutes of Costner closeups.
This is my own prejudice, and I own it. I do not burden fans of Costner with it, nor expect anyone to share it. I abstain from comment when he and his movies are a topic of discussion.
So now, I'm faced with a decision of avoiding Draft Day, or seeing it and putting up with far more than forty minutes of Costner closeups and Indiana-esque accent, in order to see Tom Welling in what I think is his first post-Smallville role, and hear Sam Elliot's rumbly growl for the four or five lines he's probably given. If I wait for dvd or streaming, I can FF through all the Costner parts, right?
(There are exceptions to every rule, and Costner's is Bull Durham. Oh, my.)
My preference for his absence on whatever screen I was watching was cemented the year both Wyatt Earp and Tombstone were released. Tombstone was flashy, with wonderfully cast characters, some in roles I'd never imagined for them. Earp was grittier, in many ways more realistic, and more honest. But two-thirds of the way through my only sitting, glorying in Quaid's Doc Holiday, I realized Wyatt Earp would have been a superb movie with the removal of forty minutes of Costner closeups.
This is my own prejudice, and I own it. I do not burden fans of Costner with it, nor expect anyone to share it. I abstain from comment when he and his movies are a topic of discussion.
So now, I'm faced with a decision of avoiding Draft Day, or seeing it and putting up with far more than forty minutes of Costner closeups and Indiana-esque accent, in order to see Tom Welling in what I think is his first post-Smallville role, and hear Sam Elliot's rumbly growl for the four or five lines he's probably given. If I wait for dvd or streaming, I can FF through all the Costner parts, right?
(There are exceptions to every rule, and Costner's is Bull Durham. Oh, my.)
