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Mike Petrie's a freaking BAMF, and I want to hug him forever.
Also: Callahaaaaaaan. ;_; Not often that I think "Thank God for DT7," but it redeems Callahan, so. Tip of the hat, Sai King. (Also also, apparently James Cromwell played Callahan in the 2004 TV adaptation? DO WANT.)
As ever, I enjoy watching King's evolution as a writer. It's damnably hard to explain to people that I like reading his books because I like seeing him deal with his issues and learn to write, but eh, whatever. I do. I like seeing the themes and archetypes that emerge in his books; I like playing spot-the-connections. I like what he says about childhood, and I like what he says about hope. (In the introduction to my edition of 'Salem's Lot, he talks about how Dracula was an optimistic book and he set out to write the opposite -- and then discovered that, in spite of his best efforts, 'Salem's Lot turned out optimistic as well.
Anyway, that is the extent of my Thinky Thoughts on Stephen King today. The fact that I have thinky thoughts on King and his evolution as a writer and everything at all, I blame on gao, agonistes, and the rest of the DT/King crew at Milliways. I hope you people are happy.)
I've also been listening to the audiobook of Border Princes (courtesy, of course, catslash -- efharisto!). I'm a little more than 2/3 of the way through, and it's ridiculous and full of MacGuffins and I kind of love Mr. Dine and it really makes me miss season one Torchwood, when everyone was still, you know, alive and not increasingly fucked up by Rusty.
I also thoroughly enjoy wandering around with Eve Myles' Welsh accent in my ears.
It also makes me really want to try and write a novel-length fanfic -- just spit it out, a la NaNoWriMo. I mean, I would kind of love to write for TV, or write tie-in novels like this, and the trick to it seems to be, as with all writing, to turn off the editor and go. King says something about that in the introduction of 'Salem's Lot, too, about how you can try to control the story and the characters, and that's called plotting, or you can let them go, and that's called storytelling. (Which also, of course, makes me think of Thomas Harris' introduction to Red Dragon and the life Hannibal Lecter took on. "I do not keep falcons -- they live with me.")
So maybe my project this July (31 days, not 30) should be to sit down and write a tie-in novel for a show and see what comes out.
Plans for today: Meeting with the director of Midsummer at 11, going over to the registrar to get an education verification form for my PFD, and then maybe just hanging out in Kiva Han with a coffee and some streaming video. (Ninjavideo and Hulu and Pandora WORK again! ♥__♥)
Mike Petrie's a freaking BAMF, and I want to hug him forever.
Also: Callahaaaaaaan. ;_; Not often that I think "Thank God for DT7," but it redeems Callahan, so. Tip of the hat, Sai King. (Also also, apparently James Cromwell played Callahan in the 2004 TV adaptation? DO WANT.)
As ever, I enjoy watching King's evolution as a writer. It's damnably hard to explain to people that I like reading his books because I like seeing him deal with his issues and learn to write, but eh, whatever. I do. I like seeing the themes and archetypes that emerge in his books; I like playing spot-the-connections. I like what he says about childhood, and I like what he says about hope. (In the introduction to my edition of 'Salem's Lot, he talks about how Dracula was an optimistic book and he set out to write the opposite -- and then discovered that, in spite of his best efforts, 'Salem's Lot turned out optimistic as well.
Anyway, that is the extent of my Thinky Thoughts on Stephen King today. The fact that I have thinky thoughts on King and his evolution as a writer and everything at all, I blame on gao, agonistes, and the rest of the DT/King crew at Milliways. I hope you people are happy.)
I've also been listening to the audiobook of Border Princes (courtesy, of course, catslash -- efharisto!). I'm a little more than 2/3 of the way through, and it's ridiculous and full of MacGuffins and I kind of love Mr. Dine and it really makes me miss season one Torchwood, when everyone was still, you know, alive and not increasingly fucked up by Rusty.
I also thoroughly enjoy wandering around with Eve Myles' Welsh accent in my ears.
It also makes me really want to try and write a novel-length fanfic -- just spit it out, a la NaNoWriMo. I mean, I would kind of love to write for TV, or write tie-in novels like this, and the trick to it seems to be, as with all writing, to turn off the editor and go. King says something about that in the introduction of 'Salem's Lot, too, about how you can try to control the story and the characters, and that's called plotting, or you can let them go, and that's called storytelling. (Which also, of course, makes me think of Thomas Harris' introduction to Red Dragon and the life Hannibal Lecter took on. "I do not keep falcons -- they live with me.")
So maybe my project this July (31 days, not 30) should be to sit down and write a tie-in novel for a show and see what comes out.
Plans for today: Meeting with the director of Midsummer at 11, going over to the registrar to get an education verification form for my PFD, and then maybe just hanging out in Kiva Han with a coffee and some streaming video. (Ninjavideo and Hulu and Pandora WORK again! ♥__♥)