W00T!

Jul. 16th, 2008 11:24 pm
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I wrote more today than I've written for YEARS.  Don't know why, perhaps, as [livejournal.com profile] alex_beecroft said yesterday my sub-concious was up to something and I was percolating the story in my head.  I don't know. I rather felt I was being lazy... :D  However!  instead of trying to force through from where I was in the middle and breaking my mind I jumped forward and did what I usually do, wrote the end - or rather a large chunk of leading up to the end and PING!!!!! something unblocked - the character that I thought was Mostly Filler turned out to have a rather vital use after all and I had FUN writing something for the first time since I started Hard & Fast and that was over a year ago. I had to make myself stop in the end for two reasons : 1. I had to go to the cinema and 2. the next section is the HEA... and I need to think that over without melting into utter candy-floss vomitorium sweetness.  I'm forcing myself to try and write an ending for a change, and not a "cheat"....

But it was 3241 words, and I haven't written that much since Standish, I think!  Thank you all for brainstorming with me.  Not that I don't miss my mother 99 percent of the time, but I really do miss her for being able to chat person to person whenever I had a writing problem. I miss having someone I can chat to voice to voice.  Dad's a darling but 1. he don't really get the process and 2. He forgets what I said five minutes ago.

film Night: Kung Fu Panda.  Perfection.  There's no other word for it.  If you like animated CGI's you'll love this. If you like Kung Fu films and know the genre, then you'll love this.  If you love Dustin Hoffman, you'll love this.  I loved every second of it, from the classic animated graphic novel style beginning to the inevitable ending. The humour is laugh out loud funny (and for an English person to say this, believe me, you'll be rolling in the aisles if you aren't English) the action pretty much relentless, characters GREAT but the animation Rules.  Really.  Really and truly. It's SO beautiful that it's almost distracting.  You want to sit there and wonder and marvel at the movement of the hairs in an eyelash, or the random waving of a flag, the blowing of peach blossom or the movement of water and you CAN'T because there are animals Kung Fu-ing themselves into oblivion!!

My tip?  Don't sit too close to the screen. Sit at the back or you'll find it all blurry and it will ruin it.  But don't miss this one. It's amazing.

re cheat endings

Date: 2008-07-17 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girluknow.livejournal.com
Hope you don't mean Standish. Months after reading it, I still have a vivid mental image of the final scene. It was satisfying and uplifting.

Re: re cheat endings

Date: 2008-07-17 07:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
I'm VERY happy to hear you say so. :) One person called the ending a cheat, so I shouldn't really say that.

Date: 2008-07-17 01:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zamaxfield.livejournal.com
Yay! Wow! over three thousand words? Impressive! Congrats, especially for having it be fun again. I know how hard it is when it's not, but now proof positive that just when you least expect it? It's going feel like this.

Date: 2008-07-17 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
Thanks hun. But now.. today is another day!

Eek!

Date: 2008-07-17 01:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ggymeta.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)
*jealous* Yes, Kung Fu Panda was terrific, and did you notice that it even had that adorable American pastime? The Brit accent on the bad guy! LOL!

Date: 2008-07-17 07:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
YES. *grrrr* Because ALL ENGLEESH ARE EVOL!

Date: 2008-07-17 08:23 am (UTC)

Date: 2008-07-17 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mongrelheart.livejournal.com
Way to go on the wordage! 3K + is a ton for 1 day. If I write like 500, i feel productive. I'm a slowie, though.

Date: 2008-07-17 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
I'd be happy with 500 normally!

Date: 2008-07-17 07:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catsintheattic.livejournal.com
Ah, good to hear that you had a break-through with the story. :-)

Please, what is a HEA?

Date: 2008-07-17 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
Thank you - and it's "Happy Ever After"

Date: 2008-07-17 08:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catsintheattic.livejournal.com
Ah, of course! *headdesk*

Good luck with the HEA,then! :-)

Date: 2008-07-17 09:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelabenedetti.livejournal.com
Wasn't that a fun movie?! :D The spousal unit and I saw it a couple of weeks ago and had a blast.

And congrats on the writing, too! If you see my muse, will you give it a good thrashing and send it home...? [wry smile]

Angie

Date: 2008-07-17 10:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
It was great. Not a bad moment in it. I don't normally like Jack Black but even he didn't grate me!

I will, I promise!

Date: 2008-07-17 10:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crawling-angel.livejournal.com
Woot indeedie! *faints* The most I've ever written in one sitting is 1600 for a fic and around 1000 for the beginning of SC....and that was ages ago. Were you writing with your homeoeratic pen? ;p *laffs* Can I be really dumb and ask what HEA is? *hides in case it is something totally obvious* But ... the character ... he stays \o/

Panda>>> I've not even heard of that film but it sounds amazing! :)



Date: 2008-07-17 10:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
I know-I think I have burn out. Can't even open the file today. I've still got 20K to do... argh!

Happy Ever After!

Date: 2008-07-17 10:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crawling-angel.livejournal.com
See, I just knew it was something simple...like me, lol.

I haven't opened the file either. I need crumpets first *nom*

Date: 2008-07-17 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fiona-glass.livejournal.com
Woot indeed! Sorry I missed the brainstorm but isn't it amazing what can suddenly unblock the tubes? ;)

And I loved Panda too. Best film I've seen for ages, actually. I *want* Master Shifu.

Date: 2008-07-17 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
Yes, it must have jolted something loose! :D

Oh yes, me too! And a Tai Lung too!! Love the bad boys...

Date: 2008-07-17 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lee-rowan.livejournal.com
3K plus... wow... what were you drinking, and can I get it in Canada?

"Standish" wasn't a cheat--it just wasn't formula. You did HEA with Hard & Fast and it wasn't sticky-sweet, either.

I may have to get Panda for my significant otter--she's a big animation fan. Hope it's on DVD by Christmas.

Date: 2008-07-17 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
This is proving to be very sappy. but hey! I'm allowed one sappy, right? Right? :D

Date: 2008-07-17 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lee-rowan.livejournal.com
Sappy does not = stupid. Love makes cool/sophisticated/detached fly out the window, and when it's the right lovers, that's a really good thing!

Date: 2008-07-17 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tharain.livejournal.com
the character that I thought was Mostly Filler turned out to have a rather vital use after all

::BEAMS::

I AM SO HAPPY!! No, really!

And SO excellent.

Date: 2008-07-18 08:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com
Thank you, hun! I'm happy too. Of course I wrote nothing yesterday.. will try harder today.

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