YAY! OMG! Also? WOOT!
In the past few days, I've doubled the size of an SGA story I've been working on since forever, filling in with actual prose all the bits that were once mere outline! I'm up to page 20! I have so much work to do, but I can't seem to tear myself away from the computer for more than eating and sleeping
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The first series is rather eclipsed by the second one now - they went back and started the story over again, this time tracking the manga more closely and, now that the manga-ka has finished it, right through to the end, which was incredibly satisfying. The second series was MUCH better than first in terms of plausible story and characterization, but the first had some truly gorgeous animation and character design. As for the movie (there's a second one on the way), it made a lot of people angry, but me, I was just so awed by the animation and how incredibly beautiful everyone was (oh, that Edward Elric...), that I didn't care. We'd gotten more when we thought it was over... And then the new series came. (& ppl. were v. happy...) And now, a new movie in production...
Basically, I've just loved it all. :]
Sorry to run on about it. Trying to entice you into watching that movie ;> ...particulaly since you're the one who got me excited about anime all those years ago, I think...
I'm a Organizational Communication major so the thesis was a study designed and conducted, interviews and all, of dislocated workers; specifically, those from the group I myself am a part of, who were laid off 2 summers ago when our site was closed down. The study examined how people make sense of and cope with job loss. Interesting, but the analysis was personally draining for me. And I'm working on another now dealing with the ethics of political propaganda, using Sarah Palin (and the shit storm she started) as my case study. Despite popular opinion, she really, truly is the anti-Christ... :(
As for wordy vs. ...what, action-oriented/romantic writing? There's an audience for everything out there. I (no sh*t, eh?) tend to be wordy myself, but there are people that stick with it and like it. When the words are good - and you've got something interesting to say - people don't care how many of them there are. :] My longest FMA piece, part of a multi-chapter series, was almost 75 pages. And yeah, great response on it. Don't sweat the wordy, wordy can be gooood. Wish I could say I knew the series, but I've only watched some of the very first one. The original movie is one of my favorites, though.
Take a note book with you tomorrow so you can write in the car.
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I can see how the analysis would be personally draining! You could do a similar study for me and all of the people I know -- just thinking about it makes me shaky.
Wordy as in, I'm describing scenes (in a hopefully comedic way) instead of building scenes with lines of dialog, a more usual way of telling a story. Did you ever see any old Walt Disney movies with animals doing cute things, with the narrator making folksy comments on the action on the screen? Oddly, it's a bit like that. Since two of the main characters, Ronon and Teal'c, make the word "taciturn" look like a weak descriptor, it's sometimes the only way to get through a scene, but it's pretty funny, too. The third character is also canonically reticent about himself, or he'll talk about nothing in particular and you'll have to read between the lines. So, three non-Chatty Cathys, but John is in the place he grew up, so he's full of memories and thoughts that he wants to share. The summary is "Life is living the stories that you tell later", which is not, I hope, too cheesy. It's like what I posted a few weeks ago: a bunch of ideas I've been sitting on for many SGA stories that I'm mixing together to form a (hopefully) cohesive tale. And I picked the three least talkative people in fandom to do it.
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I know what you mean - I know very few people who haven't been affected employment issues in the past few years. Shaky is a good (bad!) word for it...
Ah, yes, I know exactly what you mean; it's something I use all the time! I typically use inner voices to try to explain the actions of less...forthcoming characters. For one in particular, whose actions are often impulsive or just plain nuts, I've set up a whole team of emotinal facets (denial, anger, libido, love, even body parts - his stomach, his...well, his libido's best buddy - clearly, I'm writing long, involved, ...um, smut here (it's love! it's about love, I swear!) ) who man the "control station" in his head, shifting his gears or providing him with information (or misinformation) as needed. (Team Elric gives Edward his own team of "geeks.") And I would say, fear not the wordy! As I'm sure you already know - people have an appreciation for carefully constructed, well-written internal play. I have to say, I've done really well with this line of reasoning. To date, that story series is approaching 50,000 hits...
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