![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
TV slut meme( shows you are watching this year.) & Writing style meme
Stressed and frustrated tonight, watching an old Glee episode in the background - Glee makes great background music. Yes, I'm a musical junkie. Doesn't matter how bad it is - I'll watch it. I watched High School Musical - and yes, it was horrifically bad. Plus Glee is satire, and I adore satire.
Read a meme about writers that influence your style - and pondered it. I have no idea.
It's probably worth noting that I have at least five different writing styles.
1)The one I'm using now which is conversational/informal, and filled with slang or my primary fanboard/blogger style. This is the writing style that tends to get snarky and sarcastic. And in most cases should not be taken too seriously. TV posts are written usually in this style. This was influenced by people like Nick Hornby, Bridget Feilding, Erma Bombeck, Mark Twain, Christopher Moore, Dorothy Parker, and to a degree the columns by Stephen King - humorist writing. And a lot of bloggers and internet fanboard posters. [I'm using this style now.]
2) Serious prose - for personal essays. Tends to be more poetic, uses lots of metaphors, and has a stream of consciousness feel to it. Joycian (James Joyce), may be the best word or Marquezian (Marquez). Both were heavy influences. As were Plath and Anne Taylor, Molly Givens, Annie Dillard, and other essayists including Jonathan Franzen, and several featured in the New Yorker such as John Cheever. [See my 9/11 post for an example of this style]
3) my creative or story-writing style - which is usually a combo of 1 and 2 - with a heavy influence from whatever I'm reading at the moment. (Too many to count). [I've only used this style for fanfic I've written and good luck finding it. I don't share this style online. ]
4) Academic - you see this style pop up in longer media essays or what the internet calls meta. It is formal writing. Has links and footnotes and references. (my least favorite and I pick a more informal form of it than most academics are comfortable with. Because I hate footnotes - I refuse to use them. (Lawyers use them to hide information and Academics to prove they aren't talking out of their ass (ie. are always backing up everything they say with a link to another source.)) [This is the style I use for meta or media essay - such as Spike - Trigger, Chips and Souls. Or the meta on Liam and William walk into a bar...]
5) Persuasive writing and/or legal writing. Precise words. Syntax adhered to. Grammar is perfect. This is debate writing. When I write political posts or posts that I wish to persuade. (And unfortunately requires either endnotes, links or footnotes, so you can prove you aren't talking out of your ass. Think of it as a more "confrontational" form of academic writing.)[You see this style when I get into a heated debate with someone or posting about politics.]
6) Business writing - which is perfunctory to some, basically informational writing, clear, concise to the point. Unemotional. Dry. And Precise. Doesn't have footnotes - because business people don't want to read more than they have to. They will have links and back up but usually summarized within the text - because business people don't have the patience for footnotes. [The closest I've come to posting this is the copyright post or informative posts. But I rarely use it online. Since I write in this style all day long.]
Okay that is six styles. Unless you combine five and 4 or five and six.
Depending on my mood, I will jump from one to the other. (Can you tell I've taken one too many writing courses?)
TV Meme:
Simple rules - list all the tv shows you have watched in last two years that are currently available and still on tv or netflix.
*Put a strike throughthe shows you tried at least once and chose not to watch for whatever reason. (lack of interest, didn't like, etc)
*Bold all the shows that you would recommend, think are amazing and love. Shows...that are highly memorable and you think others should watch.
*Leave as is...the one's you just are watching and obviously like or wouldn't watch otherwise. These would include Guilty Pleasures.
At the end list the new shows airing this year that you are trying. Also, if you are like me and can't remember half of them, that means you are probably addicted and watch too much. ;-)
(Note: I'm like a kid in a candy store with cultural media, extreemly electic and diverse tastes and - I can't make up my mind -so I try each of them and cancel the ones I don't find interesting, offensive or just don't like. Test is - does it hold my attention? (start reading a magazine, drawing, or fixing something to eat or surfing the net during it) Do I find myself yelling at the tv? (aggravated) And do I want to rant about it being horrid? (offended) Or switch the channel or fast-forward out of embarrassement?)
Glee
Mad Men
True Blood
Dexter
The Good Wife
The Closer
In Plain Sight
The Big Bang Theory
The Vampire Diaries
Sons of Anarchy
Damages (loved first season, lost me somewhere in the second and third)
Caprica
NCIS
Bones
Castle
Rizzoli and Isles
The Good Guys
CSI
CSI Miami
CSI New York
Criminal Minds
The Metalist
Burn Notice
White Collar
Royal Pains
Eureka
Doctor Who
Torchwood
Big Love
Weeds
Modern Family
Cougar Town
The Middle
Rules of Engagement
30 Rock
The Office
Parks and Recreation
Breaking Bad -( tried, just not my thing. Too much like eating brussel sprouts, also probably doesn't help that I've met these people - they are extended family members that I've distanced myself from.)
The Community
Life Unexpected
Gossip Girl
Nikita
Supernatural
Smallville
General Hospital
Being Human
Covert Affairs
Justified
Friday Night Lights
Merlin
Parenthood
House
Grey's Anatomy
Being Erica
Leverage
Desperate Housewives (yes, still hanging in there)
Project Runway
Lie to Me
Law and Order: Criminal Intent
Medium
Food Fight
American Idol
Top Chef
Sancturary
Rescue Me
How I Met Your Mother (off and on)
Chuck
Fringe
Private Practice
Simpsons - got burned out after watching it off and on for six years. Seriously I think this tv show has outlasted Gunsmoke...it may continue forever. Never changing.
The Family Guy - too much like the Simpsons, except a lot darker, like it fine, just gets repetitive after a while.
The Apprentice
Rubicon
Jon Stewart Daily Show
Colbert Report
NY1 for news coverage
Survivor
The Amazing Race
90210
Dancing with the Stars
Two and a Half Men
V
America's Next Top Model
Saturday Night College Football
Extreme Makeover Home Edition
Californication
[Sigh, obviously, I'm not a fan of 80% of the sitcoms, procedurals, and reality shows that are currently on tv at the moment. It's the rare procedural that interests me - it has to be incredibly character focused and not formulaic or too into the nitty gritty of silly procedural details which I know for a fact the tv writers just made up. Sitcoms? If they are wall to wall dumb sex jokes or embarrassment/humilation humor? I can't watch them. Which unfortunately for me is 85% of American situation comedies. I used to love Jon Stewart and Colbert daily, but burnt out on both sometime in 2009 and realized don't have the time. )
See? I've watched too much tv. I've actually at some point seen all of these shows at least once.
Shows airing this season for first time that I will try:
1. The Event (although with low expectations...these conspiracy tv shows rarely work. Even Lost and X-Files eventually fell apart.) - Monday
2. Lone Star-- Monday (I'll watch one on night and the other the next week? Don't know. Can't watch both - too many frigging things on Monday nights.)
3. Blue Bloods ( an innovative take on the cop show) - Friday nights
4. Sherlock Holmes - the Moffat version, which everyone was chattering about on my flist. (Sunday nights)
5. Running Wilde - the new sitcom with Will Arnett and Kerri Russell (Tuesday)
6. Ordinary Family - the superhero family dramedy with Michael Chicklis and Julie Benze (Tuesday - which is also getting crowded)
7. Nikita (see above) (Thursday - another crowded night)
8. Hawaii Five-O (out of nostalgia -yes, I watched the original with Jack Lord in the 70s, in reruns in the 80s) - sigh - Monday.
9. Chase (out of curiousity...although the write-up doesn't intrigue - too many frigging cop and police shows on tv. There's at least two on every single solitary channel. I swear, seen one of these things, you've seen them all - they all have serial killers at some point, all get the leads almost killed, supporting characters almost killed, and leads flirt but never get together. And the killer is 9 times out of 10 the first guy or gal they question. Hell, I feel like I'm watching fifteen different versions of Columbo and Hart to Hart. Also Monday.)
10. Raising Hope (Tuesday)
11. The Defenders (because I like Jerry O'Connel - no other reason. Watched Sliders for O'Connell too.) - Wed (dead night, well unless you are into criminal procedurals and reality shows and sitcoms)
12. Undercovers (notable for being the first tv series I've seen on network tv that stars a black couple as the hot spies/action leads. YAY!.)
13. The Walking Dead (on the fence - not really into zombies and never really understood the appeal, but am admittedly curious.)
14. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Read a meme about writers that influence your style - and pondered it. I have no idea.
It's probably worth noting that I have at least five different writing styles.
1)The one I'm using now which is conversational/informal, and filled with slang or my primary fanboard/blogger style. This is the writing style that tends to get snarky and sarcastic. And in most cases should not be taken too seriously. TV posts are written usually in this style. This was influenced by people like Nick Hornby, Bridget Feilding, Erma Bombeck, Mark Twain, Christopher Moore, Dorothy Parker, and to a degree the columns by Stephen King - humorist writing. And a lot of bloggers and internet fanboard posters. [I'm using this style now.]
2) Serious prose - for personal essays. Tends to be more poetic, uses lots of metaphors, and has a stream of consciousness feel to it. Joycian (James Joyce), may be the best word or Marquezian (Marquez). Both were heavy influences. As were Plath and Anne Taylor, Molly Givens, Annie Dillard, and other essayists including Jonathan Franzen, and several featured in the New Yorker such as John Cheever. [See my 9/11 post for an example of this style]
3) my creative or story-writing style - which is usually a combo of 1 and 2 - with a heavy influence from whatever I'm reading at the moment. (Too many to count). [I've only used this style for fanfic I've written and good luck finding it. I don't share this style online. ]
4) Academic - you see this style pop up in longer media essays or what the internet calls meta. It is formal writing. Has links and footnotes and references. (my least favorite and I pick a more informal form of it than most academics are comfortable with. Because I hate footnotes - I refuse to use them. (Lawyers use them to hide information and Academics to prove they aren't talking out of their ass (ie. are always backing up everything they say with a link to another source.)) [This is the style I use for meta or media essay - such as Spike - Trigger, Chips and Souls. Or the meta on Liam and William walk into a bar...]
5) Persuasive writing and/or legal writing. Precise words. Syntax adhered to. Grammar is perfect. This is debate writing. When I write political posts or posts that I wish to persuade. (And unfortunately requires either endnotes, links or footnotes, so you can prove you aren't talking out of your ass. Think of it as a more "confrontational" form of academic writing.)[You see this style when I get into a heated debate with someone or posting about politics.]
6) Business writing - which is perfunctory to some, basically informational writing, clear, concise to the point. Unemotional. Dry. And Precise. Doesn't have footnotes - because business people don't want to read more than they have to. They will have links and back up but usually summarized within the text - because business people don't have the patience for footnotes. [The closest I've come to posting this is the copyright post or informative posts. But I rarely use it online. Since I write in this style all day long.]
Okay that is six styles. Unless you combine five and 4 or five and six.
Depending on my mood, I will jump from one to the other. (Can you tell I've taken one too many writing courses?)
TV Meme:
Simple rules - list all the tv shows you have watched in last two years that are currently available and still on tv or netflix.
*Put a strike through
*Bold all the shows that you would recommend, think are amazing and love. Shows...that are highly memorable and you think others should watch.
*Leave as is...the one's you just are watching and obviously like or wouldn't watch otherwise. These would include Guilty Pleasures.
At the end list the new shows airing this year that you are trying. Also, if you are like me and can't remember half of them, that means you are probably addicted and watch too much. ;-)
(Note: I'm like a kid in a candy store with cultural media, extreemly electic and diverse tastes and - I can't make up my mind -so I try each of them and cancel the ones I don't find interesting, offensive or just don't like. Test is - does it hold my attention? (start reading a magazine, drawing, or fixing something to eat or surfing the net during it) Do I find myself yelling at the tv? (aggravated) And do I want to rant about it being horrid? (offended) Or switch the channel or fast-forward out of embarrassement?)
Glee
Mad Men
True Blood
Dexter
The Good Wife
The Closer
In Plain Sight
The Big Bang Theory
The Vampire Diaries
Caprica
Bones
Castle
Rizzoli and Isles
The Good Guys
CSI
CSI Miami
CSI New York
Criminal Minds
The Metalist
Burn Notice
White Collar
Royal Pains
Eureka
Doctor Who
Torchwood
Weeds
Cougar Town
The Middle
Rules of Engagement
30 Rock
The Office
Parks and Recreation
The Community
Life Unexpected
Gossip Girl
Nikita
Supernatural
Smallville
General Hospital
Being Human
Covert Affairs
Justified
Friday Night Lights
Merlin
Parenthood
House
Grey's Anatomy
Being Erica
Leverage
Desperate Housewives (yes, still hanging in there)
Project Runway
How I Met Your Mother (off and on)
Chuck
Rubicon
Jon Stewart Daily Show
Colbert Report
NY1 for news coverage
The Amazing Race
90210
Dancing with the Stars
Two and a Half Men
V
America's Next Top Model
Saturday Night College Football
Extreme Makeover Home Edition
Californication
[Sigh, obviously, I'm not a fan of 80% of the sitcoms, procedurals, and reality shows that are currently on tv at the moment. It's the rare procedural that interests me - it has to be incredibly character focused and not formulaic or too into the nitty gritty of silly procedural details which I know for a fact the tv writers just made up. Sitcoms? If they are wall to wall dumb sex jokes or embarrassment/humilation humor? I can't watch them. Which unfortunately for me is 85% of American situation comedies. I used to love Jon Stewart and Colbert daily, but burnt out on both sometime in 2009 and realized don't have the time. )
See? I've watched too much tv. I've actually at some point seen all of these shows at least once.
Shows airing this season for first time that I will try:
1. The Event (although with low expectations...these conspiracy tv shows rarely work. Even Lost and X-Files eventually fell apart.) - Monday
2. Lone Star-- Monday (I'll watch one on night and the other the next week? Don't know. Can't watch both - too many frigging things on Monday nights.)
3. Blue Bloods ( an innovative take on the cop show) - Friday nights
4. Sherlock Holmes - the Moffat version, which everyone was chattering about on my flist. (Sunday nights)
5. Running Wilde - the new sitcom with Will Arnett and Kerri Russell (Tuesday)
6. Ordinary Family - the superhero family dramedy with Michael Chicklis and Julie Benze (Tuesday - which is also getting crowded)
7. Nikita (see above) (Thursday - another crowded night)
8. Hawaii Five-O (out of nostalgia -yes, I watched the original with Jack Lord in the 70s, in reruns in the 80s) - sigh - Monday.
9. Chase (out of curiousity...although the write-up doesn't intrigue - too many frigging cop and police shows on tv. There's at least two on every single solitary channel. I swear, seen one of these things, you've seen them all - they all have serial killers at some point, all get the leads almost killed, supporting characters almost killed, and leads flirt but never get together. And the killer is 9 times out of 10 the first guy or gal they question. Hell, I feel like I'm watching fifteen different versions of Columbo and Hart to Hart. Also Monday.)
10. Raising Hope (Tuesday)
11. The Defenders (because I like Jerry O'Connel - no other reason. Watched Sliders for O'Connell too.) - Wed (dead night, well unless you are into criminal procedurals and reality shows and sitcoms)
12. Undercovers (notable for being the first tv series I've seen on network tv that stars a black couple as the hot spies/action leads. YAY!.)
13. The Walking Dead (on the fence - not really into zombies and never really understood the appeal, but am admittedly curious.)
14. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency