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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:47 pm
Ah lol yes, I know how that is .. In the early part of the day its all courtroom shows, which is pretty good for when I'm writing, especially with the short detective stories I'm doing right now. I've been bouncing around TrueTV over the last week or so, on the true crime shows.. it kind of helps me get back in the mood I've noticed though, with shows about school .. few actually focus on school .. xD; which might help my problem about my big novel that's strictly about a certain school Things that are generally associated with the genre .. or strictly on the genre help .. usually .. but sometimes they're really distracting xD;
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:04 pm
I know what you mean xD
I'm a big fantasy reader... but my current project is more science-fantasy in the fact that the word 'magic' is 1) never used, and 2) does not exist.
Problem - Tamara Pierce's Circle of Magic Quartet... which I have been reading recently... no help! I need more war books...
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 4:31 pm
I find my stories tend to be grounded in realism, but have fantasy elements. A lot of my favorite media reflects this. Some examples:
-The Nightmare Before Christmas. The very existence of the Holiday Worlds is pure fantasy, but other than that, there is very little magic. The most I counted? The whirlpool into Christmas Town, Sally's premonition, the witches using a potion to watch Jack's Christmas Eve antics, and Santa making it snow in Halloween Town. Otherwise, everything is very mechanical and plausibly realistic. Some of the characters could probably work well in our real world.
-Sweeney Todd. The whole concept of killing so many people and baking them into pies is fantastic, though possibly plausible given the time period and setting. Still, no magic: just character interaction, goals, and work to meet those goals (...that all fail except for Anthony and Johanna. But regardless!).
-Batman. Mainly comics, but the fantasy relies in things like the technology (name any main villain weapon: fear serum, plant vines, laughing gas...), but it is still grounded mostly in reality. We see these crazed characters, and we learn about them, watch their struggles and triumphs, see their dark sides, but then their lighter ones. And sometimes, we want the bad guys to win because we see their point of view.
My stories follow the same pattern. They have fantastic elements, but little-if-any magic.
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:05 pm
I really do prefer to write the more science-fiction where the fantasy can be explained by 'natural' phenomenon or technology .. but sometimes making it 'just happen' can be fun too.
I read a lot of Tamara Pierce but then fell out of it ..
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:45 pm
hehe - comic books are pretty good examples xD but -I'm an X-Men fan myself. Dark Knight and Batman Begins were good though.
Tamara Pierce alright... but I'm not gonna cycle back to her for a while... Inkheart is just too good xD
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 8:40 pm
I read some of her first books .. Song of the Lioness .. I think was the series .. and then some of the ones after it, but, I lost interest what with school and sports then moving away for college
I just saw the commercial for Inkheart =o it sounds familiar, but I can't remember if I've read it
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:25 pm
yeah... i never read the lioness quartet...
Inkheart is AMAZING!!!!! Really worth the time to read it! And the movie should be good too, because they actually had the author on set! They were in contact with her for the screenplay as well!!!! High expectations!
Jan. 23!!! hehe, my friend is taking me to the midnight showing!
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:00 pm
K_eys of C_olor hehe - comic books are pretty good examples xD but -I'm an X-Men fan myself. Dark Knight and Batman Begins were good though. Tamara Pierce alright... but I'm not gonna cycle back to her for a while... Inkheart is just too good xD X-Men is the only thing Marvel has going for them that I like. DC only has Batman for me. There were things I liked and hated about Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but overall, I think they are the best Batman films since Tim Burton's original Batman. I know people who have read Inkheart, and I may get around to reading it myself.
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:07 pm
It was the only one that I completely read xD;
Hm sounds wonderful .. having the author there to help stay with the vision is something I like to hear about when a movie is made -nods-
The Dark Night was amazing .. Batman Begins kinda made me oO a bit too much for me to enjoy it properly. I did like the first original Batman quite a bit
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:11 pm
I have a whole rant regarding the Scarecrow for Batman Begins. The Dark Knight made me think a bit. There are some things I do not like, but I think they improved a lot since Batman Begins.
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:17 pm
Batman is the only good thing DC has - it needs to cross over to Marvel and make us all Marvel fans stop feeling like hypocrites xD Like that will ever happen...
I was not a fan of many of the earlier Batman movies - then I watched The Dark Knight and ... I was spell bound.
You really should read Inkheart It is totally worth it!
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:26 pm
I will agree with that, actually. But as I said, I only like one thing from either company. I have dabbled into Daredevil a little, and while I enjoy him, I do not like him as much as Batman or the X-Men.
Of the original films, I like Burton's original Batman. Batman Returns is one of those films you watch when you are in the mood for it. Batman Forever, I only watch for the Riddler scenes because Jim Carrey makes me laugh. Batman and Robin does not exist to me.
I will whenever I get around to it.
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:16 pm
LOL that is pretty intersting about the films...
In other random news: I've had a few epiphanies in the last few hours:
1) The name that my MC is introduced as is not his real, birth name. It was given to him. How I figured this out? well, I was talking to someone who doesn't write at all and he was complaining about how writing short stories for a class (that I do not take) was terrible. I mentioned that you don't find out my MC's name until page like twelve, and then it hits me "His name can't end in a consinent because his first language/language his people speak is too soft for it - it would have to end in a soft sound." So - although I don't really know what that name is... or how to make a vowel-ending word sound masculine... I now have a new layer to his personality... and more support for the overall title of the book!
2) He starts to go blind earlier than I orginally thought/planned. That I found out today in my English class because I wasn't really paying attention to The Scarlet Letter
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:23 pm
You can describe how bad Batman and Robin (Batman, Robin, and Batgirl would have been a much better name...) is simply by saying, "batsuit nipples."
Nice. So you have had the joy of experiencing things that just fall into place. ^^
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:22 pm
EWWWWWW!
yes, it does happen occasionally... and I love every moment of it!
After I binge wrote like 1,100 words in one setting, I was totally dead, then I hit something like 48 hours later! Then, a friend of mine says "stop" and I'm like "No way, maybe pause and RP with you, but .... I'm not stopping, I've got inspiration and I'm running with it!" some people just don't get it...
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