I love the promo for Fringe, even though I have never watched an episode.
What a way to own a handicap.
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Very cool
Here’s an alternate opening sequence to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I really dig it.
(But then again I own a copy of Keep Watching The Skies)
I don’t know to be happy or sad
So just over two years ago I did a line revision of Love and Loyalty because when I looked at it I saw where I could strengthen the flow of the sentences. As I delved into it I also saw a new plot element — that I would have seen the first time had I not been too slavish in following my outline — that I think greatly improved the novel.
So with fresh new edits and abetter writing I sent it off to a publisher. Well, if you follow this blog you now it got bounced recently.
This week I read it out loud for my writers group and boy did I hear trouble in the sentence structure. (Not grammar, but the sentences just did not flow.)
So that prompted my committing myself to a new round of sentence level revisions. (And the feedback I got at the reading was very helpful.)
I have such mixed feelings about this.
On one hand I was totally blind to the fault of the manuscript when I shipped it off in 2009.
On the other hand I can clearly see the fault so I must be improving, right?
Happy or sad, I just don’t know.
Cawdor is now officially on hold
Well After going through the first chapter of Love and Loyalty with the Mysterious Galaxy Writers Group I have decided to do yet another line edit of Love and Loyalty.
I want to work on both books, but a realistic appraisal of my writing time and our resources says that such plans are doomed to failure. Given that I had to select the novel I thought was closer to be a salable manuscript and that is Love and Loyalty. Hopefully it will not take me too long to edit the book. I can see that in the nearly three years since my last rounds of edits I have strengthened in my sentence crafting skills.
Let’s hope I have progressed far enough.
A bit of levity
Stayed home today with a migraine. Luckily it cleared out by about 11:30, but since my sweetie-wife had the car that meant I still was stuck at home.
Anyway I found this video over at Andrew Sullivan’s blog and it certainly cheered me up. (A little down due to the migraine and the knowledge I need to do a line edit on all 400 pages of Love and Loyalty.)
Sunday Night Movie: Macbeth(1948)
Before Citizen Kane, and before the Mercury Theater’s radio production of War Of The Worlds, Orson Welles was the wonderkid for his stage productions. He gained fame and notoriety for fresh and inventive productions of classic theater. Most notably among these was his production of Macbeth.
Using an all black cast he staged Macbeth on a Jamaican plantation with a cast that was inexperienced on the stage. The production was a smash hit, propelling the young Welles on his way to stardom.
After the trouble Welles found with the studio system and his bruising combat with William Randolph Hurst over Welles’ first film, Citizen Kane, perhaps it was natural that Welles returned to Shakespeare looking for his cinematic redemption. Welles convinces second tier studio Republic, best known for westerns, to support his Macbeth.
The version I watched last night is a version that Republic did not release. It was part of Welles’ that ‘the Scottish Play’ be done with Scott accents. The studio rebelled when it heard the final version and order all the dialog redubbed with the actors playing the parts in their native accents. This version is not currently available in the United States on DVD. The image above is from a Korean import which I purchased a few months ago.
A generally Pleasant Sunday
Today was a fairly low-key Sunday for the sweetie-wife and myself. We visited a married couple who are good friend but do to the hustle and bustle of life we had not seen recently. It was a very good visit and time flew by more rapidly than we had anticipated. Afterward we drive to Pacific Beach had lunch at The Broken Yolk, (because the Sweetie-wife had seen a bumpersticker and had misread it as The DrunkenYak what a great name for a D&D tavern.) I had chili as I still need to avoid food that require me to tear with my front teeth. (Until my permeant crowns are in place I have a limited diet with lots of cut up food plans.)
She shopped at Trader Joe’s and I played gamed on my iPhone, then it was back home to finish watching the pilot episode of the BBC’s series SHERLOCK. Man I really really like that show. I think they have nailed the Sherlock Holmes character rather well. I hope that they do not lose as the series progresses.
TTYA
A return to space
Well this afternoon my friend Bear is coming over and we’re doing another round of Federation Commander. Todays battle will be a Federation vs Romulan battle. For those who care it is a Federation Battle Cruiser (185 pts) vs A Romulan Snip (75 pts) & a Romulan War Eagle (103 pts) for a total of 185 vs 178.
This will be our first game with the Feration and it’s photon torpedos and also the first game withe the Romulans and their cloaking device.
Should be fun.
Fast post
Recovering nicely from my time in the dentist’s chair. (It was safe.) Planning on Board and Card gaming tonight for friends.
Not Much to say — literally
I had a visit to my dentist today. A better than 4 hours in the chair. Luckily my kind and very talented dentists has a video monitor in the ceiling for his patients. I brought a copy of LOTR THe TWo Tower- extended cut, and that kept my mind off the drilling and filing going in my mouth.
After the pain killers had worn off a terrible headache – tension type not migraine — decended upon me and that has been the state of my day.