Archive for October, 2006
I, For One, Welcome Our New Google Overlords
Friday, October 27th, 2006Though it may be too early to tell for sure, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Google has managed to do for me what I’ve spent years, dollars, and untold hours trying to do for myself. And that is: Get Organized. Of course, my desk is still a wreck. I [...]
Rewriting
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006I’m coming to dislike rewriting. Once upon a time, it was the way I worked. I wrote my very first novel in a pair of spiral-bound notebooks, then when we got our first Windows computer, began to transcribe them into a digital format (WordPerfect, at the time). As soon as I started transcribing, though, it [...]
Star Wars As Entertainment
Thursday, October 12th, 2006I, II, and III should have been still Vader’s story, but told with his surrogate father–Obi Wan–in the foreground. Again, Vader would be the antagonist of his own story, though here it would be in some respects the same inevitable spiral toward evil, but instead told as Obi-Wan’s efforts to prevent it. (Incidentally, I loved one of the first casting rumors I heard regarding Obi-Wan and that was getting Kenneth Brannagh in the part–better surrogate father material than Ewan, though I do love both as actors, and more likely to look like Sir Alec Guiness in 18 years.