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1. Why We're All Swooning for Romance Books - the anti-stigmatizing of the romance genre. (I skimmed, but you may find it intriguing.)
2. Disney, Hulu and Max are teaming up to provide a streaming package
I did a double-take when I saw this on Twitter. Someone asked if we're just reinventing cable now? (Speaking of? I may downgrade to Basic or cut the chord soon.)
Just wait, before long, Paramount, Showtime, Amazon and Netflix will team up.
3. Gotta love Watershed years...or years of massive changes across the board.
I was discussing this with my mother last night, dealing with the fact that I feel kind of lost or in limbo at the moment. Not sure what to do next, where to go, or what to commit to, and I don't want to leave my job, city, or apartment.
I realized why. Things are in flux. And kind of chaotic. And I want to see where the chips fall before making a move. Also get my health stabilized, and feel secure in my surroundings. In times of constant changes, sometimes it's best to sit and breath. I'm not wasting my life by doing that. I feel there's something I need to be doing - and I've decided maybe it's just sit and meditate, and follow a routine for a bit.
4. I've been listening to and reading a lot of things about long-running serial collaborative artists processes, particularly in regards to changing the story-thread and characters.
Tom Brevort discusses his take over of The X-men comics
"So really, the first thing I did — and it took a couple of weeks to do this — is I wrote up one of my famous position documents. Usually, those are two pages long or something and just kind of going: OK, we’re going to recast Avengers. New creators are going to have to come onto Avengers because Jason Aaron is wrapping up. So where is Avengers right now? What do I think it needs? What characters should we be looking to push forward? What should the stories we’re telling be about? How should we go about this? What are the things that I think are working and what are the things I don’t think are working? It’s just to have some document that I can hand to people that will put us at least on the same page.
For X-Men, I did all that — except it was much, much larger. It was more like a 15 – 20-page document because you had to start at macro and work your way down to micro. And starting macro was kind of like, OK, the last couple of years, the Krakoan era — here are the things that I think worked well, and here are the things I don’t think worked as well. And here are the things I thought worked for a while, but stopped working somewhere along the way. And or, I’d like to push against this or move in another direction."
I find the process he used informative and helpful in understanding how someone takes over the writing task of another's world or universe. Thought you might too?
This journal is subtitled ..."from a curious soul"....which is how I'd describe myself. Curious. It often gets me into trouble. But it also keeps me engaged with the world around me.
A side note - I've been reading Tom Brevort's blog for a while now on substack, and I really like him. He's interesting - and what he says about writing and working in the field of comics is interesting.
There's three huge long-running serials under new management this year - their 60th or 63rd year in operation. 1) Doctor Who - RT Davies and a new Who took over starting in May. 2) General Hospital - got new head writers and a lot of shake up started in March. 3) X-men got a new editor-in-chief and a brand new writing team and new direction starting in July.
Like I said, a year of change.
3. Another change taking place - is Boss retired, so we have new management across the board at Crazy Company. More and more people have retired. There's brand new folks on the floor. New procedures. And the whole department has been reconfigured.
4. And church, which keeps on insisting on calling itself a society because of people who are triggered by the word church (sigh), has to select an interim minister, now that the current minister is leaving at the end of the program year (ie. sometime this month).
I don't really know why she chose to leave or what happened. I can speculate but what's the point? I'm not surprised. Although I honestly thought the Assistant Minister would leave first.
Unitarians are weird. In the Catholic Church - you're appointed to a church, and no one has a choice in the matter. You make it work. In Congregational churches (like the Unitarian Church) - the congregation chooses the minister, which can pose problems. There's a search committee for the interim, then the interim helps the committee and congregation figure out who should be the long-term minister and lead a search for that person. It's involved and complicated. I actually think it's a good idea now for a lot of reasons.
2. Disney, Hulu and Max are teaming up to provide a streaming package
I did a double-take when I saw this on Twitter. Someone asked if we're just reinventing cable now? (Speaking of? I may downgrade to Basic or cut the chord soon.)
Just wait, before long, Paramount, Showtime, Amazon and Netflix will team up.
3. Gotta love Watershed years...or years of massive changes across the board.
I was discussing this with my mother last night, dealing with the fact that I feel kind of lost or in limbo at the moment. Not sure what to do next, where to go, or what to commit to, and I don't want to leave my job, city, or apartment.
I realized why. Things are in flux. And kind of chaotic. And I want to see where the chips fall before making a move. Also get my health stabilized, and feel secure in my surroundings. In times of constant changes, sometimes it's best to sit and breath. I'm not wasting my life by doing that. I feel there's something I need to be doing - and I've decided maybe it's just sit and meditate, and follow a routine for a bit.
4. I've been listening to and reading a lot of things about long-running serial collaborative artists processes, particularly in regards to changing the story-thread and characters.
Tom Brevort discusses his take over of The X-men comics
"So really, the first thing I did — and it took a couple of weeks to do this — is I wrote up one of my famous position documents. Usually, those are two pages long or something and just kind of going: OK, we’re going to recast Avengers. New creators are going to have to come onto Avengers because Jason Aaron is wrapping up. So where is Avengers right now? What do I think it needs? What characters should we be looking to push forward? What should the stories we’re telling be about? How should we go about this? What are the things that I think are working and what are the things I don’t think are working? It’s just to have some document that I can hand to people that will put us at least on the same page.
For X-Men, I did all that — except it was much, much larger. It was more like a 15 – 20-page document because you had to start at macro and work your way down to micro. And starting macro was kind of like, OK, the last couple of years, the Krakoan era — here are the things that I think worked well, and here are the things I don’t think worked as well. And here are the things I thought worked for a while, but stopped working somewhere along the way. And or, I’d like to push against this or move in another direction."
I find the process he used informative and helpful in understanding how someone takes over the writing task of another's world or universe. Thought you might too?
This journal is subtitled ..."from a curious soul"....which is how I'd describe myself. Curious. It often gets me into trouble. But it also keeps me engaged with the world around me.
A side note - I've been reading Tom Brevort's blog for a while now on substack, and I really like him. He's interesting - and what he says about writing and working in the field of comics is interesting.
There's three huge long-running serials under new management this year - their 60th or 63rd year in operation. 1) Doctor Who - RT Davies and a new Who took over starting in May. 2) General Hospital - got new head writers and a lot of shake up started in March. 3) X-men got a new editor-in-chief and a brand new writing team and new direction starting in July.
Like I said, a year of change.
3. Another change taking place - is Boss retired, so we have new management across the board at Crazy Company. More and more people have retired. There's brand new folks on the floor. New procedures. And the whole department has been reconfigured.
4. And church, which keeps on insisting on calling itself a society because of people who are triggered by the word church (sigh), has to select an interim minister, now that the current minister is leaving at the end of the program year (ie. sometime this month).
I don't really know why she chose to leave or what happened. I can speculate but what's the point? I'm not surprised. Although I honestly thought the Assistant Minister would leave first.
Unitarians are weird. In the Catholic Church - you're appointed to a church, and no one has a choice in the matter. You make it work. In Congregational churches (like the Unitarian Church) - the congregation chooses the minister, which can pose problems. There's a search committee for the interim, then the interim helps the committee and congregation figure out who should be the long-term minister and lead a search for that person. It's involved and complicated. I actually think it's a good idea now for a lot of reasons.