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1. Gave up on DW for GH and X-men fandom -- so found it on FB and Twitter.
I should rejoin Tumblr and try there -- but I originally did, and well -- I don't understand Tumblr, it seems designed by an insane magazine editor.
Been having discussions about the Un-Canny comics in FB with the "Proud to be a Cyclops Fan" group. One of them appears to be a train guy on Long Island, and may work for the Rail Road, what are the odds?
We're dissecting why the Matthew Rosenberg Un-Canny reboot of the series didn't work. It was really good to begin with and sort of went off the rails. What it did wrong was kill off a bunch of supporting characters, who'd been sidelined, were mostly women and all weirdly the New Mutants. Most of which had previously been killed off by the same writer in another series - New Mutants: Dead Souls. Anyhow, the problem with killing characters the way he did -- it wasn't earned. It was for shock value. "Oh god, oh no, I can't believe they killed ..."
Even if the character isn't vital -- it should be earned. Although there's something to be said for not killing off the Red Shirts just to show how dangerous the situation is or gloomy. It's annoying. There's also something to be said for not killing off a character unless you intend to have the character remain dead and have no plans to do anything with them somewhere down the line. But...if you are writing for a long-running series that turns over writers faster than rabbits can have babies, then...
I don't mind if writers kill off characters as long as it is EARNED. There has to be a point to it, it has to have reprecussions on plot and character, it can't be random or for shock value. I remember when I took writing courses in school, we got a long lecture by the prof about not randomly killing a character off by bus.
Character moments need to be earned. Or the reader is jarred. If the writer doesn't care - why should the reader or viewer?
As you probably have figured out by now? I love dissecting what works and what doesn't in a story for me, and what I would do differently. It helps me write and plot my own stories. And determine what stories or types of stories work for me and why.
2. So, romance novel that I'm reading? This is a Regency Romance, during the 1700s.
The Duke has made out with the heroine (country girl he's sponsoring) in the carriage. After wards, she gets upset and rushes out, because they can't be together and she's discombobulated, because she thought she loved his brother...so flees into his sister's house where she's been staying. Sis and heroine have a tete-a-tete, and the Duke's sister, not knowing that Miranda (girl next door) who is her bestie, has been making out with the Duke and that's the guy who has her all flustered -- tells her to go tell this guy how much she likes him. Put pride aside and let him know, the sooner the better.
So...what happens? Does our heroine wait until the next day or their next scheduled outting to tell him? No. She somehow gets to his house, finds his bedroom and comes in -- in nothing but a trench coat and hat, and disrobes. He's stark naked in bed. He leaps up and she's shocked that he's naked. And I'm thinking -- honey, what did you think was going to happen here exactly?
Also, my suspension of disbelief leaped out the window and went skipping merrily down the block. I found it amusing, but I'm on the train reading this, and the guy across from me is watching my right eyebrow climb up my forward in skeptical disbelief.
Honestly, I can see someone in the 21st century doing this, but not the 18th. She'd be ruined. And sort of deserves having him make her his mistress. Although, it is very pro-active of her -- but she's also a virgin, then again -- that's how this all started to begin with -- she snuck into his room thinking he was his brother during a masequarade ball in the hopes of seducing the brother -- and seduced him instead.
3. Work
ME: Please revise the technical scope of work with the changes we discussed, and send it to the contractor requesting a cost proposal.
Project Manager emails Contractor: Please revise the technical scope of work for this project with the changes we discussed.
ME: Uh, why would you ask the contractor to revise your technical scope of work? No, no, no, you were supposed to revise it, send it to the contractor and then ask them for the cost proposal.
Sigh. This has been my week. But hey at least I found the file I misplaced, in a drawer that I looked for it in fifteen times..
I'm so glad this week is over and I'm going away on vacation next week. Now, if I can just find a way to do laundry before that happens. Targeting Sat. Was supposed to do something with Wales on Sat, but she hasn't contacted me and I don't care, I need to do laundry...which brings up..
4. Laundry
Cartoon from Little Niddles on FB, which I can't repost here...so you'll have to deal with the dialogue.
A: What is the one thing that stands between you and all your dreams.
B: Laundry.
A (smacking hand against his head): Yourself, the answer is obviously you.
B:I'm pretty sure it's laundry.
So true.
But hey, I did return the swimsuit that I bought on Amazon and did not fit via UPS Store (heck of a lot easier than expected), picked up contacts, went to bank, and got treats I did not need from patisseri...which while gluten-free were hardly sugar free.
Oh well, didn't get alcohol. Progress.
I should rejoin Tumblr and try there -- but I originally did, and well -- I don't understand Tumblr, it seems designed by an insane magazine editor.
Been having discussions about the Un-Canny comics in FB with the "Proud to be a Cyclops Fan" group. One of them appears to be a train guy on Long Island, and may work for the Rail Road, what are the odds?
We're dissecting why the Matthew Rosenberg Un-Canny reboot of the series didn't work. It was really good to begin with and sort of went off the rails. What it did wrong was kill off a bunch of supporting characters, who'd been sidelined, were mostly women and all weirdly the New Mutants. Most of which had previously been killed off by the same writer in another series - New Mutants: Dead Souls. Anyhow, the problem with killing characters the way he did -- it wasn't earned. It was for shock value. "Oh god, oh no, I can't believe they killed ..."
Even if the character isn't vital -- it should be earned. Although there's something to be said for not killing off the Red Shirts just to show how dangerous the situation is or gloomy. It's annoying. There's also something to be said for not killing off a character unless you intend to have the character remain dead and have no plans to do anything with them somewhere down the line. But...if you are writing for a long-running series that turns over writers faster than rabbits can have babies, then...
I don't mind if writers kill off characters as long as it is EARNED. There has to be a point to it, it has to have reprecussions on plot and character, it can't be random or for shock value. I remember when I took writing courses in school, we got a long lecture by the prof about not randomly killing a character off by bus.
Character moments need to be earned. Or the reader is jarred. If the writer doesn't care - why should the reader or viewer?
As you probably have figured out by now? I love dissecting what works and what doesn't in a story for me, and what I would do differently. It helps me write and plot my own stories. And determine what stories or types of stories work for me and why.
2. So, romance novel that I'm reading? This is a Regency Romance, during the 1700s.
The Duke has made out with the heroine (country girl he's sponsoring) in the carriage. After wards, she gets upset and rushes out, because they can't be together and she's discombobulated, because she thought she loved his brother...so flees into his sister's house where she's been staying. Sis and heroine have a tete-a-tete, and the Duke's sister, not knowing that Miranda (girl next door) who is her bestie, has been making out with the Duke and that's the guy who has her all flustered -- tells her to go tell this guy how much she likes him. Put pride aside and let him know, the sooner the better.
So...what happens? Does our heroine wait until the next day or their next scheduled outting to tell him? No. She somehow gets to his house, finds his bedroom and comes in -- in nothing but a trench coat and hat, and disrobes. He's stark naked in bed. He leaps up and she's shocked that he's naked. And I'm thinking -- honey, what did you think was going to happen here exactly?
Also, my suspension of disbelief leaped out the window and went skipping merrily down the block. I found it amusing, but I'm on the train reading this, and the guy across from me is watching my right eyebrow climb up my forward in skeptical disbelief.
Honestly, I can see someone in the 21st century doing this, but not the 18th. She'd be ruined. And sort of deserves having him make her his mistress. Although, it is very pro-active of her -- but she's also a virgin, then again -- that's how this all started to begin with -- she snuck into his room thinking he was his brother during a masequarade ball in the hopes of seducing the brother -- and seduced him instead.
3. Work
ME: Please revise the technical scope of work with the changes we discussed, and send it to the contractor requesting a cost proposal.
Project Manager emails Contractor: Please revise the technical scope of work for this project with the changes we discussed.
ME: Uh, why would you ask the contractor to revise your technical scope of work? No, no, no, you were supposed to revise it, send it to the contractor and then ask them for the cost proposal.
Sigh. This has been my week. But hey at least I found the file I misplaced, in a drawer that I looked for it in fifteen times..
I'm so glad this week is over and I'm going away on vacation next week. Now, if I can just find a way to do laundry before that happens. Targeting Sat. Was supposed to do something with Wales on Sat, but she hasn't contacted me and I don't care, I need to do laundry...which brings up..
4. Laundry
Cartoon from Little Niddles on FB, which I can't repost here...so you'll have to deal with the dialogue.
A: What is the one thing that stands between you and all your dreams.
B: Laundry.
A (smacking hand against his head): Yourself, the answer is obviously you.
B:I'm pretty sure it's laundry.
So true.
But hey, I did return the swimsuit that I bought on Amazon and did not fit via UPS Store (heck of a lot easier than expected), picked up contacts, went to bank, and got treats I did not need from patisseri...which while gluten-free were hardly sugar free.
Oh well, didn't get alcohol. Progress.
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And...I'd planned on getting together with a friend today, but begged off because alas...the vertigo headache is threatening to come back. Beautiful day, but I just got up and almost went careening into the wall.
It'll pass soon -- I took the tynenol sinus pressure + headache med which usually gets rid of it, if I take it before it comes on. Just takes some time.
There was probably a barometric pressure shift that I wasn't aware of and the news didn't forecast.