Movies and Manuscripts
Went to The Hangover with my little sister and her boy friend. She's moving to Hollywood on Monday to attend a performing arts school for a degree in film acting. Hence, for the love of my flesh and blood kin, I hung on through immensely gratuitous stupidity. It had some caper elements that were actually pretty well thought out ... I just don't care for the really intense kinds of slap-stick unaccompanied by good wit (because Monty Python is fabulous, despite being grotesque sometimes).
I discovered when working on the world building earlier that skewing how long a race of humanoid people live really isn't as simple as saying "and they typically live to 700 years old"--particularly when a main character of this race isn't past adolescence. Especially if the point of having a long-lived people is that they're smart because they've had so long to study, they have to have developed cognitive skills much earlier in their lives comparatively than a human would or nobody'd be worth much intellectually before they were 200 or 250. But who'd believe that anyone who'd live d 150 years wouldn't be incredibly bright (or at least fairly well read or experienced at something)? And what about physical development to go along? Stinkin' plausibility.
I'm spending some time editing a fun novel manuscript for
tangerine_33 tonight before going back to world building.
I discovered when working on the world building earlier that skewing how long a race of humanoid people live really isn't as simple as saying "and they typically live to 700 years old"--particularly when a main character of this race isn't past adolescence. Especially if the point of having a long-lived people is that they're smart because they've had so long to study, they have to have developed cognitive skills much earlier in their lives comparatively than a human would or nobody'd be worth much intellectually before they were 200 or 250. But who'd believe that anyone who'd live d 150 years wouldn't be incredibly bright (or at least fairly well read or experienced at something)? And what about physical development to go along? Stinkin' plausibility.
I'm spending some time editing a fun novel manuscript for
tangerine_33 tonight before going back to world building.