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| Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | |
| 12:48 pm | FML Part 2 So it showed up for like two seconds and then just died. WTF? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? KARUSHKA, DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THIS? Also how the hell do you edit entries on JournalFen? FML Although... I totally forgot I had this icon,. I am gonna use it when I talk about <i>Twilight</i> now XD If LJ ever works that is. But I want to use it Naaaaaaaaoooo!!! FML. Current Mood: Dumped on |
| 12:39 pm | FML Is it just me or did LJ just die. FML I knew I should have been backing everything up but noooooooooooooooo I was far too lazy. |
| Monday, January 19th, 2009 | |
| 11:29 am | New Year, New ... something So Nano didn't quite work out for me for anyone keeping score. Oh well. So for some reason I seem to be watching a lot of Bollywood films right now. Most of them get on my nerves so I have resolved to share my pain with anyone who will In an effort to not wander off on a tangent too often I have devised a scoring system: Points for Premise: Plot: Premise is the idea/plot bunny of the film. Plot is how if all fleshes out. For e.g. Rich boy meets poor girl. They fall in love. His parents object. I give points for originality and ability to provoke interest. I take points away for predictability. WTF factor may make me add or take away points depending on how I feel about it. This may not be a fair decision. For e.g. Mentally handicapped boy meets alien, gains special powers made me think oh crap this is bollywood meets et. Did they really go there? Oh yes they did. Is nothing sacred? Who thought of this? Were they on crack? This is going to suck. Of course, I am talking about the massively successful Koi mil gaya which, mainly due to – no, entirely due to Hrithik Roshans mad acting skills, did not suck and was actually quite good. So I was wrong. Even so I would still only give it a 1 for Premise because it’s all been done before and what were you thinking? I would hopefully make up for it when I gave it marks for plot and acting. Dialogue : - or screenplay. To go back to the Koi Mil Gaya example Hrithik would probably get several plus points for his efforts but I might take away a few for the annoying barrage of children that follow him about. Priety Zinta tends to annoy me so she might get points taken away. On the other hand, I haven’t seen this for a while so maybe Priety/the kids were not that annoying and get a 0. (Meh) Music: Well this is Bollywood – every film is a musical Pacing: with the average film length is 3 hours most of them tend to drag in the second half so I will probably be rather liberal. However this can be done well. Exactly what it says on the Tin: This means is it what I expect it to be. If the movie is being sold as goofball comedy and I get a goofball comedy. That’s a 1. If it is turns out to be a deep satirical take on… I don’t know, something it will probably get plus marks. If it turns out to be a moralistic melodrama that I don’t much care for it’ll get minus marks. Other: This is for anything else. Good/Bad/Pointless action sequences. Effective plot twists. Questionable behaviour. It all goes here. I’ll tall you right now. Anything with the if you love her/him – stalk her/him plot will get lumped in here with serious negative marking. 0 is therefore not a bad score. It means the movie broke even. A solid Meh. Negative marks indicate I didn’t like something. Positive means I did. The absolute figure shows how much it did or didn’t suck. Current Mood: bored |
| Thursday, November 6th, 2008 | |
| 10:50 am | Nano day 5 Words: 3199 So last night I caught up on my correspondence and then I was so tired I couldn't sit down at the pc and type but I didn't want to be bothered with our old broken laptop that you have to turn on and off about fifty times to get it to start. But I took a notebook to bed and thought that I may as well make some notes at least and ended up writing over a thousand words. So now I'm going to carry it around everywhere and write whenever I get a chance. I might just write all through my lunch and coffee breaks. This does mean that I I'll have to type everything up again which is valuable writing time. And that half my "novel" is typed and half of it is written longhand but at least I'm writing. And I suppose I can always put it together after I finish my 50000 words. Even if it means that I don't get it verified... at least I will have done it. Also I am getting closer to the daily word limit instead of falling woefully short every night. I figure I have to write 2000 words for the next 25 days to catch up. I do have the weekend to maybe catch up but I'm going to have to get my GO exchange fic done then. Why do I procrastinate so much. Resolution for new years maybe - stop procrastinating, and learn how to use a comma properly.
Current Mood: Happy-Dance Current Music: i cant believe that you & me did sex it makes me sick to think of you undressed |
| Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | |
| 10:18 am | Nano Days 3 and 4. Words: 2000 Woot! I've cross the Day 1 word count! ... But this means I'm also about 5000 words behind and have 6335 words to write by midnight today ... yeah ok, they'll probably not all get written. But... on the plus side its developing a lot more and my vague ideas are becoming a lot more concrete. I suppose the thing is to get it out on paper and not just leave them in my head. And now I know where the dragons come in! Yay! Everything is better with dragons and now I can has loads of them. I am slightly concerned that I am going to make dragons boring but then I think nothing can be worse than Eragon and am comforted. I've also decided to go with at least three viewpoint characters and possibly four instead of just having one unreliable narrator. And I'm going with third person limited/omnicenst instead of first person. This meant I had to go back and change everything.Which is also one of that reasons that I'm so far behind as well as the fact that that everyone is against me. Oh well. I'd better do some work I suppose. Current Mood: Determined Current Music: i should have known oh no oh here it goes again |
| Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | |
| 10:35 am | Nano Day 2 Words: 869. Aaargh! What have I gotten myself into. Althought technically it wasn't my fault. The family would not leave me alone for more than two seconds at a time. Of course I could tell them what I'm planning to do but then they'd want to read it and Oh God NO! DO NOT WANT! I suppose I did have some time after they'd gone to bed but first the old laptop refused to work and then I decided, in all my wisdom to read the entire backlog of Lackadaisy instead. Which is wonderful with gorgeous art but not the best use of my time, given the circumstances. I may get some time to write at home today... to keep on track I need to have written 5000 words by midnight, tinight to keep on track. But the effing printer won't connect to the wireless network. Why this means that I should be the one to fix it I don't know. I am not that sort of 'IT person'. Just because my job involves software development does not mean that I can magically make the printer work! I am so tempted to get one of those xkcd t-shirts that say No, I can not fix your computer or words to that effect. On the plus side I have had the morning from hell battling public transport. This fact in itself is not a plus but I wanted my main character to have some trouble with trains/tubes one of the early chapters and now I know exactly what will go wrong. Sometimes, you seriously can't make this shit up. But I have a feeling I may have to tone it down a little because if I include everything that went wrong today it will seem far too over the top. Truth is stranger that fiction, baby - you heard it here... er... at some point. More as and when. Current Mood: Forlorn |
| Saturday, November 1st, 2008 | |
| 11:45 pm | NaNo Day 1: Its one thing to be writing a novel in 30 days - but when your secretly writing a novel in thirty days... yeah I've gotten about as far as my icon. And I still haven't finished my GO winter exchange piece which I just know is going to be one of those 20k plus jobs just because there is no way I can write a short piece that fulfils the criteria i've been given. On the positive side I finally have made a decision on which of my current plotbunnys I am going to go with for Nano. It's the less developed one but the one that ultimately would work much better as a novel than the other. It's also a lot closer to my heart. Hopefully I can make some notes tonight and start writing on something tomorrow. Current Mood: Wiped |
| Sunday, May 18th, 2008 | |
| 5:37 pm | Aargh! Back to exam revision. Current Mood: Overwhelmed |