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Sep. 1st, 2017 09:25 pm1. Trailer for the Film IT.
While "The Mary Sue" is admittedly starting to grate on my nerves for various reasons, its bits on pop-culture can be hilarious. Particularly if you identify with them. Which I did in this instance.
The writer of this article appears to have the same love/hate relationship that I do with horror movies. (ie. They look really good, but alas, I'm an insominac, prone to bouts of sever anxiety, with a vivid imagination and do not need help not sleeping. Horror movies are sort of like caffeine for my brain.)
2. Opening Sonnet in Romeo and Juliet in accent most used in Shakespear's Time
This is wickedly cool. Well cool if you are one of the following or all of the following:
* shameless theater geek
* Shakespeare geek
* linguistic scholar
* English historian
And the guy doing the accent is charming. I want to attend his classes. (I don't want to be an actor, I just want to go the seminars. Honestly, I think I should gotten a degree in film and theater studies, with the caveat that I wouldn't have to make films or perform.) However, more than happy to write them. I'm a writer not an entertainer.
3. Reading The Windflower which I managed to tempt my mother into reading. We are weird. We discuss books and television series for hours over the phone. Often pulpy ones.
Me: Uhm have you started reading Windflower yet?
Mother: Yes -
Me: Is it just me or does that book manage to put more adjectives in a sentence than anyone?
Mother: I haven't really noticed...
Me: Really? I'm finding it distracting, I keep wanting to edit it.
Mother: Well, that's because you are a writer. That stuff never bothers me. I just skim the descriptive bits. I do the same thing with the sex scenes, I'll read the first one and skim over all the others.
(This explains how she manages to finish books in a day or two.)
Me: It has sentences that make no sense. Such as..."He found himself lost in the myriad diamond effect of the rosewater sunshine gleaming off her ragged sunburnt strands." Uh, what the hell does that even mean?
Mother: I just skim over that.
Me: It is admittedly funny in places and I like the characters. But the descriptions are giving me a headache.
This book is considered a beloved classic. They love it. And the story is good, I like the characters, but I want to edit the hell out of it.
While "The Mary Sue" is admittedly starting to grate on my nerves for various reasons, its bits on pop-culture can be hilarious. Particularly if you identify with them. Which I did in this instance.
The writer of this article appears to have the same love/hate relationship that I do with horror movies. (ie. They look really good, but alas, I'm an insominac, prone to bouts of sever anxiety, with a vivid imagination and do not need help not sleeping. Horror movies are sort of like caffeine for my brain.)
2. Opening Sonnet in Romeo and Juliet in accent most used in Shakespear's Time
This is wickedly cool. Well cool if you are one of the following or all of the following:
* shameless theater geek
* Shakespeare geek
* linguistic scholar
* English historian
And the guy doing the accent is charming. I want to attend his classes. (I don't want to be an actor, I just want to go the seminars. Honestly, I think I should gotten a degree in film and theater studies, with the caveat that I wouldn't have to make films or perform.) However, more than happy to write them. I'm a writer not an entertainer.
3. Reading The Windflower which I managed to tempt my mother into reading. We are weird. We discuss books and television series for hours over the phone. Often pulpy ones.
Me: Uhm have you started reading Windflower yet?
Mother: Yes -
Me: Is it just me or does that book manage to put more adjectives in a sentence than anyone?
Mother: I haven't really noticed...
Me: Really? I'm finding it distracting, I keep wanting to edit it.
Mother: Well, that's because you are a writer. That stuff never bothers me. I just skim the descriptive bits. I do the same thing with the sex scenes, I'll read the first one and skim over all the others.
(This explains how she manages to finish books in a day or two.)
Me: It has sentences that make no sense. Such as..."He found himself lost in the myriad diamond effect of the rosewater sunshine gleaming off her ragged sunburnt strands." Uh, what the hell does that even mean?
Mother: I just skim over that.
Me: It is admittedly funny in places and I like the characters. But the descriptions are giving me a headache.
This book is considered a beloved classic. They love it. And the story is good, I like the characters, but I want to edit the hell out of it.