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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Maybe that's why I've never made senior management.
Oh yeah, you’re not supposed to do the show this year Corin.
One of my co-actors has vowed that neither he nor his family will do the show next year. We’re just helping each other get through the next 11 days.
Last night he said, “Heck, I can gargle peanut butter for two weeks”...
I don’t think we’re doing a very good job of getting into the spirit of things.
Well...OK...we can wait. ;-)
I spent about two hours last night writing about five hundred words that I think I’ll throw out. Ungh. I’m basically starting book two, and struggling. If I can get past the opening parts, wherein I need ta do the prison break, and not worry too much about it being perfect, then the next little bit should be a lot easier, ‘cause main character will be in New England in a more normal sort of existence. Kinda.
But first I have to write over the hump, and that’s tough.
OK, so somehow I ended up watching The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins just now.
This does not bode well for the day.
::makes a note that sometime over Christmas would be a good time for a marathon LOTR viewing::
Yeah, I had a tough partch last night. Had to write an action sequence. Five people, four guns, one flaming torch, one monster. It wasn’t a very long scene but man, it took me a while to figure out how to do. And I had to have the 10 year old get mauled (poor kid, he was the only one without a gun. His day isn’t going to get any better once the sun comes up, either)
I ordered a couple editing books last night. Been meaning for ages to get “The First Five Pages”. I’ve had about half a dozen people recommend it.
We need a moot.
Post a review when you’ve had some time to look at it!
Will do! I got another one too that was highly recommended. Finally used my birthday Amazon certificate, six months later. Heh.
I borrowed a book from the library awhile back about beginnings...now I can’t remember the name of it. Hook, maybe? It was little and green...I remember that.
It wasn’t bad in essence, but I so disagreed with the guy’s literary preferences that I didn’t finish the book.
mmmmm....moot...
Wonderful, winmag! Really nice.
I’ve known for a long time that he was going over there, but couldn’t say anything...for some reason which I didn’t question, they didn’t want it talked about for a while. It’s ok now.
My Main Squeeze took some possible “pre-interview” tests for these guys yesterday. Get this...you know he’s been doing Matthew’s algebra with him? Teaching him the course this year, right? Because I can’t.
Guess what was a large part of one of the tests.
Heh heh...he said it would’ve been a struggle if the formulas hadn’t been so fresh in his mind, but since he had been teaching the class to Matthew, it came right to him.
He passed all the tests.
There’s too much hysteria out there over non-issues. I am hereby tendering my resignation as the “Voice of Reason.”
Guard your families, the morons are in full parade mode.
I’m just sayin’ is all...
This one I ordered is by an editor or agent, I fergit which. Ive heard it really highly recommended by several write-y friends. I have a book someone gave me that’s on writing and and it’s interesting but such a different perspective from mine... it’s being quite helpful though. I can formulate why I disagree with the author and it helps me find my style.
I’m hoping another week and my rough will be done.
The one I read was by an editor, I think. And writer. The main complaint I had was that he dissed anything older than a few decades old as hopelessly out of touch, and said stuff like “today’s readers need...” as if they’re morons who need to be spoon fed everything. Granted, he had some good points...for example, that it’s a good idea to start the story in a crisis or an action sequence, and *then* explain why character is there, rather than starting off with “once upon a time,” and building to the action.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true across the board, but it can make for a better “hook” to get someone to keep reading, which is what that book was all about.
Jest one of the reasons I'm on strike.
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