Arright. I got to page 390 or so, and at that point pretty much decided that it really was time to print out the whole book and see if any of it worked, and to get a feeling for the whole thing so these last hundredish pages don’t feel completely out of control. Ahahaha. -.- I don’t yet know if my clever idea to move a scene is going to work (it’s the next scene up if I move it, so I kind of have to figure out now if…
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book! spinning! out of control! interesting conclusions revealing themselves! unexpected twists! enemies abound! alliances forming! alliances shattering! hundreds of pages to go! no idea what happens next! damn!
book stuff
I just checked. When I got to this part of the story in the original manuscript, there was 54 pages less book, and still 173 pages to go before the end. Now I have more story to cover and still have all of that to work back in, in the sense where “all of that” once more means “scene after scene after scene will be completely rewritten in order to achieve the same end”. Dismaying as that is, it’s less dismaying than having to write totally new scenes, or at…
any dream will do
So I actually got caught by a reality show. They’re doing a series called Any Dream Will Do over here. It’s presided over by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and its purpose is to cast a leading man for Joseph & the Technicolor Dreamcoat on the West End. (Last year they did “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria” and cast Maria for The Sound of Music. Apparently it’s doing very well.) I caught the first episode because it was on after Doctor Who, and while I haven’t seen an episode…
pirates!
We just got back from Pirates III a little while ago. I went in with rather lowered expectations after reading some reviews, but to my surprise and delight, I totally enjoyed it. I thought it was by far the most interesting movie for Will as a character, that the story as a whole belonged to no one particular character (it was very very complicated and mish-mashed and full), that the special effects were pretty much awesome, and that I would go see another one if they made it. It /was/…