rambling, ranting, reccing, running
The other night we saw Troy, which was not nearly as bad as somehow I had expected it to be. I mean, it would have been nice if they'd selected a standard accent to use, so that Odysseus hadn't sounded like he was from Sheffield. :-) And some of the dialogue was kinda stoopid. But I didn't get bored for the nearly 3 hour running time, and there
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I did not know that about you. How did I not know that about you? This seems so very wrong. [ETA: Wrong that I didn't know, of course; not "wrong" that you feel that way.] *headscratch*
Also: I was pondering the choice of tense so I counted my stuff, and it turns out that I write roughly twice as much past tense as present. I was sort of expecting to find a higher percentage of present tense in the short stuff (drabbles & snippets), but it turned out that those are exactly 2:1 while the longer stuff is more like 8:5. I couldn't find any particular pattern, either, like present tense for PWP and past for gen or (semi-)plotty stuff... nope, no correlations. Go know. The only thing I did see is that I seem to use present tense when I need to get deep into a character's emotional responses to relatively fast-moving action (which can include sex); it seems to be easier for me to write someone getting carried away/swept along by what they're feeling and/or experiencing in present tense. Maybe. I think. *g*
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