YAY!
OMG YAY! Billie Piper as Sally Lockhart? YES. And a thousand times again YES. I am so pysched about this. I just hope it's not going to take like 3 billion years for it to show up on American television. XP *glares at PBS*
On a similar front... September 29th, baby! Mom finally gets to see David Tennant doing something other then stalking and murdering young women! Hurray! I have to say, that Secret Smile movie thing really freaked me out...even had to change my Tenth Doctor wallpaper...*shudder* Just goes to show how good of an actor he is, I guess. Eep.
October 22nd is the new release date for Torchwood. I'm super-psyched about that, too. Can't wait! =D (And of course the second I write that, the Doctor Who theme comes on iTunes. I SWEAR IT WASN'T ME IT WAS iTUNES SHUFFLE.) Unfortunately chances of them bringing Torchwood to American television is like, nil, which is unfortunate since mom really liked Jack and was pretty upset at how he got left behind during The Parting of the Ways. Poor mom. I told her he would have his own show now but I don't think she believed me. :(
Anyway. Did I mention I was excited about the whole Ruby in the Smoke thing? Heehee. I read Tiger in the Well ages and ages ago, when I was like ten or eleven or something. I LOVED it. Phillip Pullman is one of my favorite authors of all time (His Dark Materials own you and everyone you know) and I am SO EXCITED that they'll be adapting his Sally Lockhart stories for television. And because the BBC is doing it, and not some craptastic American company, (American book-to-television things are always shit) I know it'll be good. Haha. And Billie will do great as Sally, I know it. She's a fantastic actress. Not sure if I'll be able to believe her as being sixteen years, but you can't have everything. And who knows, maybe it'll work. =D Actually I wonder how old Ms. Piper really is...
Work on TSW goes forth, albeit slowly. I actually made good progress on the revised outline yesterday. Got all the way up to Chapter Five and got a lot of nasty set up/character intros out of the way. Every now and then I'll get stuck on something, or I'll realize something I just wrote contradicts something that happens several chapters down the line, and I'll get pretty frustrated. And there have been several times when I've found myself staring at the screen blankly for half an hour, just trying to plot something out, or answer a question about a character's motivation or purpose in being at Place A instead of Place B. I pick myself up off the keyboard and get on with it most times, but It's a lot harder then I expected it to be. Apparently for me, writing is the easy part. (VERY easy, if my end word count is anything to go by - god I'm a windbag) It's everything else that trips me up. Although I have to wonder how much of my difficulty is because I'm dealing with an old story that's been revamped so many times that it literally has four different outlines. (The new one I'm working on now is #5) Also, because I started it out as an RPG, I didn't do much backstory for it because I didn't need to. There was a plot, some fun places to move around in, and that was it. Now that I have to turn it into a novel, though it's in need of a lot more detail, which makes things difficult. I'm really looking forward to getting this monster finished and I truly hope that if I do get published, nobody asks me to do a lot of rewriting or editing. =( That would really kill me. Especially if my editor told me to split it up into a trilogy or something...ugh. Probably won't happen. Hope it doesn't happen. Really, really hope it doesn't happen. Ugh...
On a similar front... September 29th, baby! Mom finally gets to see David Tennant doing something other then stalking and murdering young women! Hurray! I have to say, that Secret Smile movie thing really freaked me out...even had to change my Tenth Doctor wallpaper...*shudder* Just goes to show how good of an actor he is, I guess. Eep.
October 22nd is the new release date for Torchwood. I'm super-psyched about that, too. Can't wait! =D (And of course the second I write that, the Doctor Who theme comes on iTunes. I SWEAR IT WASN'T ME IT WAS iTUNES SHUFFLE.) Unfortunately chances of them bringing Torchwood to American television is like, nil, which is unfortunate since mom really liked Jack and was pretty upset at how he got left behind during The Parting of the Ways. Poor mom. I told her he would have his own show now but I don't think she believed me. :(
Anyway. Did I mention I was excited about the whole Ruby in the Smoke thing? Heehee. I read Tiger in the Well ages and ages ago, when I was like ten or eleven or something. I LOVED it. Phillip Pullman is one of my favorite authors of all time (His Dark Materials own you and everyone you know) and I am SO EXCITED that they'll be adapting his Sally Lockhart stories for television. And because the BBC is doing it, and not some craptastic American company, (American book-to-television things are always shit) I know it'll be good. Haha. And Billie will do great as Sally, I know it. She's a fantastic actress. Not sure if I'll be able to believe her as being sixteen years, but you can't have everything. And who knows, maybe it'll work. =D Actually I wonder how old Ms. Piper really is...
Work on TSW goes forth, albeit slowly. I actually made good progress on the revised outline yesterday. Got all the way up to Chapter Five and got a lot of nasty set up/character intros out of the way. Every now and then I'll get stuck on something, or I'll realize something I just wrote contradicts something that happens several chapters down the line, and I'll get pretty frustrated. And there have been several times when I've found myself staring at the screen blankly for half an hour, just trying to plot something out, or answer a question about a character's motivation or purpose in being at Place A instead of Place B. I pick myself up off the keyboard and get on with it most times, but It's a lot harder then I expected it to be. Apparently for me, writing is the easy part. (VERY easy, if my end word count is anything to go by - god I'm a windbag) It's everything else that trips me up. Although I have to wonder how much of my difficulty is because I'm dealing with an old story that's been revamped so many times that it literally has four different outlines. (The new one I'm working on now is #5) Also, because I started it out as an RPG, I didn't do much backstory for it because I didn't need to. There was a plot, some fun places to move around in, and that was it. Now that I have to turn it into a novel, though it's in need of a lot more detail, which makes things difficult. I'm really looking forward to getting this monster finished and I truly hope that if I do get published, nobody asks me to do a lot of rewriting or editing. =( That would really kill me. Especially if my editor told me to split it up into a trilogy or something...ugh. Probably won't happen. Hope it doesn't happen. Really, really hope it doesn't happen. Ugh...