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Sep. 16th, 2019 06:04 pm1. Started watching Ken Burn's, documentation extraordinaire, latest documentary Country Music last night on PBS. It's surprisingly good, even if you aren't into Country Music -- really shows how both blacks and whites had a role in its development, and how racial politics and slavery also played a role and not necessarily a positive one.
In some respects, it's an important and powerful examination of the racial and class divisions along with the politics intertwined within in US historically and how they came about and are reflected in music.
Peter Coyote is narrating it and he's excellent. It's VERY good and relaxing background television. Also a good reminder of where we have come from, and what has passed before isn't as great as our memories like to make it out to be.
2. Making my way through Wyonna Earp S3 -- and the character exploration of Wyonna and her friends is rather good, more in depth than expected. Also the horror elements are a little more innovative.
Including their off-beat take on vampires, which are depicted as sort of seductive prostitutes with fancy clothes and a pinkish purplish fog.
3. Making headway on the Book that I'm writing, finally got over a hump and got into the second bit. The big secret has been revealed, now we have the repercussions. Wrote about forty pages in the last five days, so not bad. I'm on page 670 at the moment. Yes, I know it needs editing. But I need to just get to the end of the story first.
I can't really discuss the plot until I finish it. And even then, I hate to give synopses or describe what books that I'm writing are about -- I'd rather the reader figure it out on their own -- interact with it. And I often don't want to know what they take away from it.
I read a tweet by Cat Sebastian -- who said that she writes scenes out sequence, and then pasts them into the story at a later point. Because often she'll come up with it in her head out of sequence. Which, I admit I do as well. My mind will skip around the story. But when I write -- I have to write it in order or I get lost. Scrivener does help -- but I can't write in Scrivener at work -- and it's hard to export content back and forth. Also Scrivener doesn't travel well -- I can't use it on computers which it's not installed on. So it's limiting. Unless I travel around with my laptop and that doesn't work for me. I did try the long-hand approach, which worked for a bit.
But often, it's better if I don't use the scene exactly as it played out in my head. It's better if I work it out or act it out in my head multiple ways before it lands on the page.
4. I want to see the Music Man with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, but alas, I'm not sure I'm willing to pay the high ticket costs. Which seems to be true of just about everything on Broadway at the moment, including the Peter Dinklage starring role in Cyrano De Bergec that's permiering at the New Public Theater.
In some respects, it's an important and powerful examination of the racial and class divisions along with the politics intertwined within in US historically and how they came about and are reflected in music.
Peter Coyote is narrating it and he's excellent. It's VERY good and relaxing background television. Also a good reminder of where we have come from, and what has passed before isn't as great as our memories like to make it out to be.
2. Making my way through Wyonna Earp S3 -- and the character exploration of Wyonna and her friends is rather good, more in depth than expected. Also the horror elements are a little more innovative.
Including their off-beat take on vampires, which are depicted as sort of seductive prostitutes with fancy clothes and a pinkish purplish fog.
3. Making headway on the Book that I'm writing, finally got over a hump and got into the second bit. The big secret has been revealed, now we have the repercussions. Wrote about forty pages in the last five days, so not bad. I'm on page 670 at the moment. Yes, I know it needs editing. But I need to just get to the end of the story first.
I can't really discuss the plot until I finish it. And even then, I hate to give synopses or describe what books that I'm writing are about -- I'd rather the reader figure it out on their own -- interact with it. And I often don't want to know what they take away from it.
I read a tweet by Cat Sebastian -- who said that she writes scenes out sequence, and then pasts them into the story at a later point. Because often she'll come up with it in her head out of sequence. Which, I admit I do as well. My mind will skip around the story. But when I write -- I have to write it in order or I get lost. Scrivener does help -- but I can't write in Scrivener at work -- and it's hard to export content back and forth. Also Scrivener doesn't travel well -- I can't use it on computers which it's not installed on. So it's limiting. Unless I travel around with my laptop and that doesn't work for me. I did try the long-hand approach, which worked for a bit.
But often, it's better if I don't use the scene exactly as it played out in my head. It's better if I work it out or act it out in my head multiple ways before it lands on the page.
4. I want to see the Music Man with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, but alas, I'm not sure I'm willing to pay the high ticket costs. Which seems to be true of just about everything on Broadway at the moment, including the Peter Dinklage starring role in Cyrano De Bergec that's permiering at the New Public Theater.