I wonder if it's wrong ...

[apocalypsos]

... that as soon as the church crowd started heading into the cafe for lunch, I pulled up a couple of slash fics in other tabs and have been skimming the sex scenes every time I see a Bible.

There's something wrong with me, I think.

Anyway, since I came in here, I've:

-- started going through Dead Men in Dark Suits and deleting chapters I think are worthless. I've tossed half of them into the recycle bin and I'm up to chapter fifteen. Le sigh.

-- separated the extra stuff at the end of the Moonlight Hall file that I was going to put in future books -- I was thinking trilogy with that one way back when I was actually working on it -- and went through fixing formatting here and there. Without the excess in the file it comes out to 77,731 words and twenty-one finished chapters. I can't throw that much away without making the effort to finish the damn thing, seriously. Ever since I started debating what the hell to do with it, I've been trying to convince myself that an entire book in present-tense with every chapter from a different character's first-person POV is sort of like an oral history and not ... you know, confusing schizophrenic crack nobody but me would want to touch. Urgh.

-- debated starting the current chapter of Heroine Addiction over. As much as I could justify a sudden zombie invasion just 'cause, it's not gelling. I could certainly justify a lot of other surprises, so hey, there's always that. :)

It's definitely more work than I've put into stuff for a week or so, so I can at least pat myself on the back over that. I'm going to TRY to go back to my apartment and punch The Grand Prize Winner around for a while. I finally narrowed down my bad guys, in a way -- major and minor, and I think it'll work.

Here's hoping. I'm sick of swearing to get out words and edited chapters and instantly developing cases of debilitating writer's block. *sigh*

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Meanwhile, there's a post up on Pandagon about the Harry Potter books and how they'd make better TV shows than movies, because with movies you have to cram stuff into three hours and it just won't all fit, whereas with TV shows you can stretch them out over entire seasons.

My first reaction was, OMG YES. And then I thought, what would make it even cooler is that the typical TV season coinciding with the school year and all, it would click right into place in real time if they did it right.

Of course, that's in a perfect world where a TV show like that would have access to better special effects and makeup and whatnot. Right now, it's a little too much to hope for. TV execs suck so hard, you guys.

Comments

[thesumo.livejournal.com]

I meant to comment on your post before this, but I am lazy...I've been reading cracked for over an hour now haha. You have gotten me absolutely addicted to that website. Curses!

[akamarykate.livejournal.com]

HP as a series is *brilliant*--I've always felt that good tv shows are like novels, and movies are like short stories, so it makes a ton of sense (except for the stupid execs getting in the way).

There is no better response to the church crowd than slash. Unless it's post-apocalyptic (post-rapture?) slash.

[anoel.livejournal.com]

I've been saying Harry Potter should be a TV show for ages. And they COULD afford all the special effects and such because it'd make huge amounts of money for whoever made it. I'd just looove to see Harry Potter done right with most of the good material onscreen. Not to mention it'd be much better for vidding.

[heyorion.livejournal.com]

I think that JK Rowling has refused to consider serialisation of Harry Potter stuff (any further than they are already serialised), hence an eight-hour or so non-stop reading of one of the books on BBC radio a few years ago. I'm not sure why she decided on this, though...