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 made me aware that there's many things about the site that I don't know much about anymore.
The two things I got my iPad for are the only two things I haven't done with it yet.
The next time someone asks me to fix their PC when what's wrong with it is an easy Google search and virus scan fix I will preemptively punch them in the face.
I bought a new MagLight. It has an LED instead of a bulb. I've run around the house casting a ghostly parlor over darkened rooms.
I had to post the above here because my brother friended me on Facebook and he swore, one drunken night, that my flashlight was his, still believes so. If he read the above he would expect mine, either because it's his or because I have a new one. The reason isn't important as long as he got it.
I cleaned the house, freed closet space, bought curtains. I'm almost content at the moment.
Oh, I also took a day position to hopefully change my life. An abnormal sleep study is landing me in another study with an air mask suctioned to my face. Waiting for other test results. Assuming one or the other will greatly raise the quality of my life. And a friend, a friend to have lunch with would be nice.
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 made me aware that there's many things about the site that I don't know much about anymore.
The two things I got my iPad for are the only two things I haven't done with it yet.
The next time someone asks me to fix their PC when what's wrong with it is an easy Google search and virus scan fix I will preemptively punch them in the face.
I bought a new MagLight. It has an LED instead of a bulb. I've run around the house casting a ghostly parlor over darkened rooms.
I had to post the above here because my brother friended me on Facebook and he swore, one drunken night, that my flashlight was his, still believes so. If he read the above he would expect mine, either because it's his or because I have a new one. The reason isn't important as long as he got it.
I cleaned the house, freed closet space, bought curtains. I'm almost content at the moment.
Oh, I also took a day position to hopefully change my life. An abnormal sleep study is landing me in another study with an air mask suctioned to my face. Waiting for other test results. Assuming one or the other will greatly raise the quality of my life. And a friend, a friend to have lunch with would be nice.
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.