[Movie Review] Sherlock Holmes 2
Dueling Holmes. Downey, Jr in one corner and Cumberbatch in the other. What is a fan to do? Enjoy both, obviously.
[Plotting About] Back to my roots*…
*Uttered by one of the RI Wrimos after delving back into her Harry Potter fanfic on our last Write In of 2011.
At our TGIO Party we passed around pages of our NaNo Novels and one of the members of the Rhody Writing Group suggested that Chapter Six was better before I changed it.
The change was not so subtle instead of crashing on an alien world, our hero is snatched away from certain death by pirates, dumped in the brig and later their ship comes under attack, bordered by suicide bombers, subsequently blow up and tumbles out the sky with our hero watching in horror. The idea is still sound but its too much for the book even if it expands the universe.
I looked back on the original Chapter Six, found it, edited it back in and looked for Chapters Seven and Eight which I wrote this summer but removed once Chapter Six took a new route.
[Movie Trailers] The Cabin in the Woods Trailer
Let's all say it Whedonites: Fraking. Finally.
The Cabin in the Woods were written/produced by enough Mutant Enemy peeps that looking back on it, the movie's release date was probably in jeopardy before the first scene was shot.
I have to say, after reading the script, it was gonna be a fun movie.
Course, I read the script in and around '09/'10 and the movie has just now been given a hall pass to leave Development Hell.
The Trailer dropped today after the poster dropped over the weekend.
[Book Review] Ganymede by Cherie Priest
With NaNoWrimo now over, we now return to our normal broadcasting like book reviews!
Cherie Priest's fourth novel set in the Clockwork Century Universe deals with the city of New Orleans, Texas, Air Pirates, Zombis and a submarine called Ganymede.
Several characters from the other books make their appearance in this book from Seattle Crew from Boneshaker (which has just been optioned to be made into a movie) to new characters.
And, for the most part it works and for the most part it does not.
[NaNoWrimo] Have whiteboard will travel…
So with NaNoWrimo winding down so are the Write Ins, the last Saturday Write In for Exeter Library was me, myself and I and I managed to plot out my WIP across the Library's whiteboard.
This solved a great deal of problems I had been having, including the writer's block at the 21k before NaNoWrimo began.
So, 3 hrs later I have a twelve page double spaced beat sheet from beginning to end.
Some of what I wrote during NaNoWrimo is savable.
The 76k I posted a few days ago is about to hacked at again, thankfully no page one re-write is needed.
[Turkey Day] Updates…
Thanksgiving traditions should start with WKRP's Turkey Episode.
The NaNoWrimo DEATH BAR count is:
The WIP DEATH BAR count is:
I've adjusted the WIP goal to somewhere within reason, I think 150k is a little much.
[NaNoWrimo] Post Traumatic NaNo
So, I squeezed out another 1k and been limping along ever since.
The good news is:
The WIP DEATH BAR count is:
Once I fill in more chapters, more chapters from the NaNo will be brought over. I've upped my end goal a bit, it may change, dunno...
[NaNoWrimo] It’s not the volts that kills you. It’s the amps.*
*Once again a lovely conversation at one of Write Ins regarding human beings and electrocution.
I'm one day behind from last year but I have successfully passed 50k with
sharselune
Today was a lovely day, sunny outside to drive down to the Exeter Write In at the Library managed to fill up to four people. Two of us made it to 50k. Went to the Gym, cleaned out my box at Rah-CoCo's and then went to the Johnston Write In at Brewed. One of semi-regulars even flew out to San Fran for the night of Writing Dangerously. Judging from the tweets from Boston, there's a 24 hr Write In currently going on.
I'm happy to see our group is still so small. The pictures from Boston's 2010 Write Ins looks like a logistical nightmare at first but some of those write ins are at a Conference Room at B+N which would be great in RI if they had Conference Rooms.
So far headcount wise: Warwick, Cranston and Johnston seem to be attracting a fair amount of people. Next year I'm going to look into Woonsocket/Cumberland/Middletown/Newport areas. Assuming Exeter will have us back next year, I wonder if Saturday Write Ins will be worth it or not since we have three of us last week and four of us this week.
So the current standing is:
The NaNoWrimo DEATH BAR count is:
I'm keeping the goal at 100000 because I figure a lot of what I wrote is complete crap and or could be shoved into the next book depending on how wide I want the scope of the current work in progress to span.
For those keeping score with what I've done already:
The WIP DEATH BAR count is:
[NaNoWrimo] Advice on getting to 50k…
A few brief words of advice about getting to 50k.
A few NaNoWrimos back I tried to write a sci-fi space race with zombies.
It was a sort of unofficial sequel to my zombie NaNoWrimo novel from the year before.
Unfortunately, I got to 25k and after several Write Ins of starting at the blank page I hit page break and started a new story. Suffice to say I'll be going back to the zombies once I'm done with the current work in progress. In the end, I made it to 50k and have two stories to edit soon or later.
I've never been a fan of first person, but I've come around recently with the amount of Urban Fantasy I've been reading. So this next suggestion only works with third person.
All of my works in progress is third person with several different points of view.
One of those views is the villain.
This allows for a few things to happen: First, you don't stay with Harry Potter for the entire book and you get to stretch out the universe around your characters without talking heads, info dumping and the James Bondian villain explaining it all.
It reminds me a bit of why I hate the plots of Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, the Empire POV lacked immensely due to there was no Empire POV and the Jedi's were complete idiots.
At least in New Hope, Empire and Jedi there were some Empire POV that moved the plot forward.
Starting in the middle of the conversation helps a bit if you don't want to deal with the slow build up.
Deathbar Count update later on tonight...
[NaNoWrimo] The headphones they do nothing!
Or, how I learned to embrace Weather Channel Jazz and powered through today to try and catch up with
sharselune
Saturday's Write In at Exeter Library went well. For three people we had enough munchkins to smother an entire Kindergarten Class. Going to Exeter in the morning is much better than at night. I'm happy Exeter either doesn't believe in light pollution or enjoys driving down Ten Rod Rd in the dark but damn is Ten Rod Rd dark at night.
The evening writing continued without a hitch. I'm happy to see %95 of the Writing Group has embraced Scrivener. And, most of this is without me harping on the application. It's funny to see the Max Version is $5 higher than the Windows Version. The Windows Version has been recently updated, btw.
Sunday's Write In at Panera continues to work out well, thankfully 2pm on a Sunday while busy is not as busy as noon, the looks we're getting are less and less. The Weather Channel Jazz is the same.
One nugget of advice helped, switching the POV from the Hero instead to the Enemy. I've been doing that mine since I've stayed with the heroes for so long it's time to bring out the villain and explain why the hell is he doing this to everyone.
The drop off I was expecting is happening here and there. It's great to see the regulars growing.
Looks like two members of the Rhody Writers Group have finished manuscripts, one being the aforementioned
sharselune
The NaNoWrimo DEATH BAR count is:









