I wish that when I’m badly stalled out doing revisions (or writing, for that matter) and playing game after game of solitaire, that I would consistently remember that even if I don’t think I need to, what I really do need to do at that stage is print out the book and have a hard copy to go over. It can take me weeks to figure this out, which is really annoying, because I do it EVERY time, so you’d think I’d know better. :P I’m improving: mostly these days…
fairy tales in film
I was thinking about Ever After, and how very nicely I thought that movie worked as a not-quite-fairy tale. All the elements were in place, and in fact I didn’t notice the magic was missing, except on a meta level. Because Beauty and the Beast is my very favorite fairy tale, I’ve been trying to figure out how you could make that story work without the magic. Turn it into a ‘real’ fairy tale, like Ever After. It’s *not easy* to do to my satisfaction. The reason the BatB tv…
help with a book title
As a writer, titles are incredibly important to me. I don’t know if other writers have this issue (I know some don’t), but the title is my backbone for a book. I think really hard about patterns, about what the title conveys, about a lot of things that I get way hung up on. (This is dangerous, because publishers are wont to change titles left and right. I like to go in armed as to why my particular title works for a book, although in the case of, say, the…
thursday
I’ve decided today was a practice run Thursday. Tomorrow will be the real Thursday. (No, this won’t throw off the rest of the week. It’ll sort itself out by sometime next week. It always does. :))
buh.
It’s Thursday. Somehow I was not prepared for it to be Thursday. I had a specific set of things I was going to start on Thursday (like getting up earlier), and it was only in the shower at 8:25 that the befuddled idea that I had in fact blown this plan slowly set in. This, despite having discussed with Ted that yesterday was Wednesday. You’d think I’d know by now that Thursday doth follow Wednesday like the night the day, but somehow it totally escaped me. Yes, yesterday was Wednesday,…