Aug 23 2008
WWIR: August 17 through August 23, 2008
IWS: I’m going to be late. Trust me, you don’t want it in its current condition, which is “I did this. He did that. I said something. He said something. I did this. He did that.” It reads like a kindergarten primer in its simplicity. At one point, I succumbed to hysterics because it had an obvious “Hickory Dickory Dock” rhythm. This is not Poor Self-Esteem Kerry Having A Groundless Crisis. This is Kerry Has Forgotten How To Write More Than One Kind Of Boring Sentence.
Okay, I’ll put on my Pollyanna hat. “Hey, at least I don’t write 43 kinds of boring sentences!”
Something New: Got an idea from watching a television show I hate, and lo and behold, it came into the world NOT part of a set! It’s a miracle! (Of course, within 24 hours, I came up with a series, based on secondary characters but on a common THEME. And I bought the domain name for said series because by another miracle it was available, and it will be KEWL… if you’re as hopelessly geeky as I am.) (And while it may seem like that’s jumping the gun, once I’ve invested my hard-earned money in a project, I’m approximately 400 gajillion times more likely to follow through, so there’s a method to my madness.)
A cursory Google search didn’t turn up any obvious evidence that it’s been done. (Probably has, but at least not in a way Google deems worthy of putting in the first 50 pages of results.)
The show I hate, by the way, is Monsterquest on the History Channel. The reason I hate it is that it pretends to offer a balance between believers and skeptics, but there’s a very snide, sensationalistic overlay sliming the whole thing up. Take the Sasquatch episode, for example. The voice-over repeatedly says things like “the townspeople are being stalked by a monster.” Is a slavering beast pursuing citizens in a predatory manner? Actually, there are no eyewitness accounts of slavering, and it seems to flee in terror any time it comes in contact with humans, so the only remotely accurate thing in that statement is “the townspeople.”
A billion years ago, there was a show on Fox (of course I don’t remember the name of it—I remember the network only because it aired right before X-Files) that actually did present a balanced perspective without trotting out the crackpots and adding bullshit editorial commentary. I still have a file full of notes I jotted down while watching that show.
And that is also why every time I see Stanton Friedman on the telly, I exclaim “Stanton!” like he’s my long-lost brother.
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Best search term: Tuesday was a record-breaking day for hits, one of which came from ”hanging mail sorter.” I can’t even begin to imagine. I might hang my mail and use it for archery practice, but I never, ever sort it.
I suspect most of the hits came from one person who stumbled into the quicksand that is this blog and hit all the permalinks in his or her struggle to get free.
Silly reader! No one escapes this blog alive!
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
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August 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I just love when really cool ideas take over the brain. I can’t wait to see yours. Idea, I mean. Not your brain. You can keep that in your noggin.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:12 am
I got the first chapter down over the weekend. Not my usual 90% dialogue, 10% [and then stuff happened] placeholder zero draft, false start that I’ll have to trash and completely rewrite 10 times, but a good, solid chapter as a foundation to build the rest upon.
I had no idea where I was going with it beyond that first scene, but as I wrote that bit of it, there were character-building moments that led to “ah, that’s why she’s that way” and spun off into “golly, it would make it awfully hard to fall in love if some mean author let this happen.” The H & H start with an adversarial relationship, and as that hostility gradually diminishes, external conflicts conspire to drive them apart… you know, like actual competent writers do things. It’s like I finally pried the hood off and can see how the engine works this time.
