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The Writer's Block Block
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Kokopelli
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Okay. The "SciFi Original Movie" threw me off. I'm not good with books, so I'll let the others handle it.
The SciFi channel tends to show a lot of "original" movies are usually pretty lame. Bad plot. Bad idea. Bad character moves. I don't want the book to turn out like that.
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That movie was AWFUL! Ugh...sooooo bad.
I couldn't even bring myself to see it after the book...was it worse?
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...two words: HECK YES!!! (five words, if you count exclamation points!
). The Ra'zaac (or however you spell the dumb things) were Power Rangers with maggots in their faces (was that supposed to be scary???), Eragon was twice as whiny as in the book (he had obviously dyed (sp?) blond hair!!! He was a pretty boy in the book, he was GAY in the movie!), Hrothgar was given about 12 seconds of screen time, Ajihaad (sp?) had about 23 seconds, maybe 30, I feel awful (pity-wise) for CP's sister, whose based-off (...) character was a complete freak that looked like a NYC tarot card fortune teller from the 60's that had overdosed on the most hard-core drugs out there!!! Not to mention that Katrina wasn't even featured (that I can remember), Roran went off to war or some dome thing, and the Ra'zaac died by Brom's hand, then Brom died to Durza (who looked even more drugged-up than Angelina).Overall...the only good memory was a quote from Brom that turns out to be stolen from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, "Better to ask forgiveness than permission."
Yeah, I think you can tell I hated it. But I had a whole bag of mints to satisfy my boredom whilst watching it!
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...two words: HECK YES!!! (five words, if you count exclamation points!
Overall...the only good memory was a quote from Brom that turns out to be stolen from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, "Better to ask forgiveness than permission."
Yeah, I think you can tell I hated it. But I had a whole bag of mints to satisfy my boredom whilst watching it!
ROFL!!!!!
That movie was AWFUL! Ugh...sooooo bad.
Wasn't it? I watched it with my parents, and we had fun mocking it...lol.
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The only difference is a few letters. Paolini is notorious for stealing names from Tolkien and modifying them slightly for his own characters; in Eldest he has a female magician-type person named Elessari.
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Glad Paolini sued the film company and isn't making anymore of those films.
ANYWHO...
I have a satirical allegory going that I've been working on for ten years (I hope that's long enough to have planned a series thoroughly), and I'm nearly through with the first book. However, I have a problem to stopping midway through one of my works once I've gotten bored, or the experience has gotten old, and I start working on something else...eventually I'm so turned around I forget where I started originally. Now I'm up to my neck in unfinished novellas. OY.
More specifically, a post-apocalyptic look at Christianity when it seems on the brink of uselessness (SEEMS being the key word here)...
...two horror stories with Christian themes, one about immigration, the other about a bathroom...
...and a script for a potential zombie movie.
This plate is FULL.
Glad Paolini sued the film company and isn't making anymore of those films.
ANYWHO...
I have a satirical allegory going that I've been working on for ten years (I hope that's long enough to have planned a series thoroughly), and I'm nearly through with the first book. However, I have a problem to stopping midway through one of my works once I've gotten bored, or the experience has gotten old, and I start working on something else...eventually I'm so turned around I forget where I started originally. Now I'm up to my neck in unfinished novellas. OY.
More specifically, a post-apocalyptic look at Christianity when it seems on the brink of uselessness (SEEMS being the key word here)...
...two horror stories with Christian themes, one about immigration, the other about a bathroom...
...and a script for a potential zombie movie.
This plate is FULL.
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...a Christian-themed horror story about a bathroom?Do tell!
You heard her. Dream asked, I must comply. This is out of my hands, people. Don't hold this against me.
In a nutshell, it's like a very warped episode of the TWILIGHT ZONE. One of those goofy "What if?" stories that takes itself maybe a little too seriously (like an M. Knight Shyamalan movie, I've been told). People start disappearing inside of a store without a trace, and all of their paths are traced back to a bathroom. A clerk who works in the department where the bathroom is located finds himself unwillingly pulled into the investigation concerning these disappearances.
It's supposed to be sort of scary, but also funny, in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way, but in the end (I hope) I crafted what is actually a very potent Christian metaphor. Has a lot to do with FILTH, if you get my meaning. Be careful what you put into your heart, or it might come out...and eat random people. Along the way the clerk learns what it means to believe, apply, and commit. I THINK.
It reads a lot better than it sounds, I've been told. *nervous laughter*
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You heard her. Dream asked, I must comply. This is out of my hands, people. Don't hold this against me.
In a nutshell, it's like a very warped episode of the TWILIGHT ZONE. One of those goofy "What if?" stories that takes itself maybe a little too seriously (like an M. Knight Shyamalan movie, I've been told). People start disappearing inside of a store without a trace, and all of their paths are traced back to a bathroom. A clerk who works in the department where the bathroom is located finds himself unwillingly pulled into the investigation concerning these disappearances.
It's supposed to be sort of scary, but also funny, in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way, but in the end (I hope) I crafted what is actually a very potent Christian metaphor. Has a lot to do with FILTH, if you get my meaning. Be careful what you put into your heart, or it might come out...and eat random people. Along the way the clerk learns what it means to believe, apply, and commit. I THINK.
It reads a lot better than it sounds, I've been told. *nervous laughter*
Much as Lady In The Water dragged me in with its nifty plot, the M. Night Shyamalan comparison painted a good picture for me
In fact, I kinda want to read some of this if you're interested in PMing or posting...
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When I get a comprehensible version up, you're more than welcome, Dream.
...and despite all its faults (pacing, for one), LADY IN THE WATER is one of my favorite movies.
*looks around* YEAH, I SAID IT!
...and despite all its faults (pacing, for one), LADY IN THE WATER is one of my favorite movies.
*looks around* YEAH, I SAID IT!
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Wow...I'm SO GLAD someone else agrees with me. FINALLY!
It's not perfect...but I think the plot is pretty much fantastic. I watched it twice last week.
*Prepares to be crash-tackled by the film critics*
It's not perfect...but I think the plot is pretty much fantastic. I watched it twice last week.
*Prepares to be crash-tackled by the film critics*
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Peace Eternal
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Well, I'm having a whole lot of trouble with this one story. Where I see it going one way, and it is going quite the other direction. This has never happened to me before, and it's insanely frustrating. I'm in control, right? Hmm... maybe my pen has ulterrior motives? Whatever the case, it's not working, and it is bugging me like hell.
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Advice: try letting the plan go and see where that pen wants to take you! some of my favorite things i've written have been produced against my conscious will. oddly, sometimes a writer's intuition knows better than the writer themself.
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Peace Eternal
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Thanks for the advice. Not exactly happy yet, but it's too good of a story (for me anyway) to drop just because I can't write it how I thought it should go. That last part about a 'writer's intuition knows better than the writer themself' is very true in my case Thanks again
Thanks again
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