Why have all my "friends" on Facebook suddenly found Jesus? Everyone praying for this, hoping for that, quoting "The Good Book." My favorites so far are the ones with terminal illnesses or chronic issues. They pray for good days and know they will have them because their God is an awesome god. Yeah, He's also the God that allowed you to suffer and is diminishing...
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A "friend" on Facebook made a post proclaiming how people need to be more like animals; animals don't have war, animals don't hurt for fun. Feeling particularly snarky, I responded. I explained that it is that primal instinct in humans, that animality, that causes the need to mark territory, that primal rage that doesn't fit into the idea of society that we pretend to abide...
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Went to eye doctor, now see worse than before I went. Dilated pupils. Hope to have vision back by morning; I've got a novel to write.
My brother lives with our father. He doesn't have a job so pays nothing to live there. To prove his superiority, my father disconnected the wireless internet, hardlined the modem to his computer so my brother couldn't surf the net. Loving to sew discourse into their lives I took an old wireless router of mine and hooked it up in the house where our father...
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hecklongtree:
Good luck with NaNoWriMo.
Day. Rain. Family. Drugs. Sex. Twilight. Maple, Scorched leaves. Hacked bushes. Mistaken. Alone. Others alone. Profile, avatar, status. Books, magazines, epub, vampires. Games, movies, others.
Just some random thoughts.
Just some random thoughts.
There have been a few boobs I've met I didn't like but never any titties.
Musings:
I saw a thumbnail of some fat, bald guy. I thought to myself, 'that looks like my father.' It turned out to be Boss Hogg. I felt sorry for Boss Hogg.
My father follows me on Twitter, friended me on Facebook. This is the only safe place to post that.
Just noticed that Category window below. I have no idea what it is. It...
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I saw a thumbnail of some fat, bald guy. I thought to myself, 'that looks like my father.' It turned out to be Boss Hogg. I felt sorry for Boss Hogg.
My father follows me on Twitter, friended me on Facebook. This is the only safe place to post that.
Just noticed that Category window below. I have no idea what it is. It...
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hecklongtree:
Thanks for commenting on my blog about novel writing and screenwriting.
I'm going to try my hand at writing a novel. I feel that, in novel writing, I'll be more free to write what I want. I won't have to follow Syd Field's screenplay paradigm, which demands I have a major plot twist near page 30 and another near page 60. The paradigm is also referred to as the "Three Act Structure."
What's disturbing (at least to me) is that the Three Act Structure is being prescribed as a method for writing works other than screenplays, such as TV scripts, and even novels. As applied to TV scripts the idea is baffling, since teleplays usually have four acts (the act breaks being where you fit in the commercials). If you can figure out how a script with four acts can have a three act structure, well mister you're a better man than I.
I'm not saying that a novel shouldn't have a structure. Even an experimental novel like James Joyce's "Ulysses" has a structure. It doesn't have a three act structure, but it has a structure.
My problem with Syd Field is that he goes beyond prescribing structure. Anyone who tells you where your major plot twists have to go is dictating content. He is telling you how to plot your story, and what is plot if not content?
I just hope the publishing world is more open to individuality than the film world, with its one-size--fits-all approach to script writing. But, with the infiltration of the Syd Field screenwriting b.s. into other fields, I have my doubts.
I'm going to try my hand at writing a novel. I feel that, in novel writing, I'll be more free to write what I want. I won't have to follow Syd Field's screenplay paradigm, which demands I have a major plot twist near page 30 and another near page 60. The paradigm is also referred to as the "Three Act Structure."
What's disturbing (at least to me) is that the Three Act Structure is being prescribed as a method for writing works other than screenplays, such as TV scripts, and even novels. As applied to TV scripts the idea is baffling, since teleplays usually have four acts (the act breaks being where you fit in the commercials). If you can figure out how a script with four acts can have a three act structure, well mister you're a better man than I.
I'm not saying that a novel shouldn't have a structure. Even an experimental novel like James Joyce's "Ulysses" has a structure. It doesn't have a three act structure, but it has a structure.
My problem with Syd Field is that he goes beyond prescribing structure. Anyone who tells you where your major plot twists have to go is dictating content. He is telling you how to plot your story, and what is plot if not content?
I just hope the publishing world is more open to individuality than the film world, with its one-size--fits-all approach to script writing. But, with the infiltration of the Syd Field screenwriting b.s. into other fields, I have my doubts.
My membership lapsed a week or two ago. My billing info must have changed for I thought renewal was automatic. I got an email from SG saying I cancelled my subscription. Huh. I didn't care much, I had considered canceling it anyways. Last night I got an email asking me to come back. I was informed of all the new sets just added in the...
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arsenic:
Happy birthday!! 
hecklongtree:
Sorry I haven't checked in with you in a while. Glad you re-upped.
What have you been up to? Done any writing?
What have you been up to? Done any writing?
it's hard to live up to strangers beautiful color
some people always finish last still I ended up a badass
- Kacy Crowley, "Badass"
some people always finish last still I ended up a badass
- Kacy Crowley, "Badass"
A nurse at the hospital I work at posted on Facebook about an MS (Multiple Sclerosis) related incident she had, she being the one with MS. Having a reaction to a steroid she was prescribed; an exacerabation, hospitalized, collapsing into a coma, being revived, walking a few steps with a walker, then a cane, and finally on her own. Now, NOW, that she is under...
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