Frustrated...as I have thirteen staff reports to complete by last Friday and a mid-year budget meeting to attend today that I know will result in my blood pressure rising exponentially in relation to the stupidity of my fellow managers...but hey, it's Friday and "The Walking Dead" starts on FX tonight! Zombies!!! ZOMBIES!!!
Okay - I'm starting to geek out right now...lol
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Is it actually possible to watch TV these days without running into a reality TV show of some sort or other? I mean, you've got that rubbish called The Apprentice (I want my money back from that crappy Amstrad computer I purchased from you in the late 80s, Sugar!); Come Dine With Me (that's just the perfect opportunity to give someone food poisoning); Coach Trip (why??) - have UK TV companies lost all sense of originality?
Oh, I'm sorry - looking back at that it's clearly a rhetorical question and a smidge off topic...eeekk!!
Oh, I'm sorry - looking back at that it's clearly a rhetorical question and a smidge off topic...eeekk!!
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As much as I love writing my amoral anti-hero Cassandra Vincent, I have to confess that writing the Leah Hargreaves character in "How I Met Your Mother" has been more interesting. She allows me the opportunity to reverse several stereotypes while trying to convey the internal conflict within her character, something that becomes more evident in parts three and four.
Although, I also have a couple of apocalyptic characters that are always a blast to write, but you can never sustain that level of comic-book supervillanry for too long before it starts to grate.
Although, I also have a couple of apocalyptic characters that are always a blast to write, but you can never sustain that level of comic-book supervillanry for too long before it starts to grate.
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I wonder whether, despite their success, well established authors still feel insecurities about their talent and if this has anything to do with the decision to use a pen name for a genre outside their comfort zone?
And I would really love to read a romance novel by Stephen King. If only he'd write one!
Wasn't Misery a romance novel???
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Okay - this is something that has bugged me for awhile now and it's time I finally addressed it.
At what point should you - if ever - decide to embark on a wholesale re-write of something you're done with?
Looking back over the myriad of things I've written over the years I can see where I've recycled ideas a few times into better versions of them but I've always tried to stay away from simply re-writing something for the sake of it. I've looked at some of my older stuff - produced over 5-10 years ago - and I've contemplated running my eye over it again to see how I could improve it now...yet something about that feels wrong; I'd finished the story, I'd moved on from there and I hadn't ventured back to it due to the fact I knew the tale was done and dusted.
And yet there's this niggling little itch that screams at me to go over it again...
Is this just a quirk that I appear to have or does everyone else "suffer" with the same urge?
At what point should you - if ever - decide to embark on a wholesale re-write of something you're done with?
Looking back over the myriad of things I've written over the years I can see where I've recycled ideas a few times into better versions of them but I've always tried to stay away from simply re-writing something for the sake of it. I've looked at some of my older stuff - produced over 5-10 years ago - and I've contemplated running my eye over it again to see how I could improve it now...yet something about that feels wrong; I'd finished the story, I'd moved on from there and I hadn't ventured back to it due to the fact I knew the tale was done and dusted.
And yet there's this niggling little itch that screams at me to go over it again...
Is this just a quirk that I appear to have or does everyone else "suffer" with the same urge?