Puttering, Pottering
Thursday, June 24th, 2004 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniYesterday got off to a delayed start, with us sleeping in til almost nine. We had both gotten on a roll around seven the night before and the next time we looked up it was midnight and time to have, um, lunch.
I ran errands while Steve took care of some necessary telephone calls and in the afternoon settled down with the last quarter of Crystal Soldier. This is the first cold read I've been able to give the entire manuscript. Some tweaks necessary here and there -- Truly Terrible Sentences(tm) to be straightened out, a couple images that need to be sharpened, one scene that (still!) doesn't work as it ought -- that sort of minor, sharpening-up stuff.
However, the reason I was reading CS was to refresh myself on the various plot-threads and those things for which a resolution has been promised in the next book. There are -- surprise! -- quite a number of questions still to be answered and the ending for Book Two is a definite, for a change.
The first book managed to confine itself to two viewpoints; as I'm thinking about what needs to be covered in the next, I'm favoring multiple viewpoints and parallel storylines. This is subject to change as I get down to cases, start making a list of scenes and listen to the characters' /b/i/c/k/e/r/i/n/g input, but right now I don't see how I can escape three viewpoints -- each of the main characters from the first book and a third, new to this book. And there may be good reason for one more, introduced toward the end of the first book, making for four viewpoints/plot strands to be interwoven. Today's brainstorming session should clarify some of that.
Last night, we motored on down to the Railroad Square Cinema in beautiful Waterville and viewed the latest Harry Potter movie. Railroad Square is primarily an "arts" theater which, upon the death of the local Hoyts cinemaplex, pledged one of its four viewing rooms to screening Crass Commercial Ventures. Much more convenient than that 80-something-mile round trip to the Regal Cinemas in Augusta, and you get to see bizarre trailers; none of this King Arthur stuff.
The trailers were for Fahrenheit 911, and The Story of the Weeping Camel. I think I'll give Mr. Moore's little effort a miss, and while the camel movie looks gorgeous -- filmed in the Gobi Desert in the original Mongolian, with subtitles -- I don't think I'll be there for that one, either. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, now -- I'm there. I have lousy taste in movies; sue me.
Of the Potterage: I liked this one a bit more than the first two -- enough to be annoyed at the stuff necessarily left out. The Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite of the four Harry Potters I've read, and that may have added to my greater enjoyment of the movie. That said, I found the build-up of Sirius Black as a reallyReallyREALLY Bad Man much more annoying in the movie than in the book; and I really missed the opportunity for Harry to hear more about his father's friendship with Lupin and Black.
On balance, though, I had a good time and the DVD is on my to-buy list (with the other hundred or six, sigh...)
I ran errands while Steve took care of some necessary telephone calls and in the afternoon settled down with the last quarter of Crystal Soldier. This is the first cold read I've been able to give the entire manuscript. Some tweaks necessary here and there -- Truly Terrible Sentences(tm) to be straightened out, a couple images that need to be sharpened, one scene that (still!) doesn't work as it ought -- that sort of minor, sharpening-up stuff.
However, the reason I was reading CS was to refresh myself on the various plot-threads and those things for which a resolution has been promised in the next book. There are -- surprise! -- quite a number of questions still to be answered and the ending for Book Two is a definite, for a change.
The first book managed to confine itself to two viewpoints; as I'm thinking about what needs to be covered in the next, I'm favoring multiple viewpoints and parallel storylines. This is subject to change as I get down to cases, start making a list of scenes and listen to the characters' /b/i/c/k/e/r/i/n/g input, but right now I don't see how I can escape three viewpoints -- each of the main characters from the first book and a third, new to this book. And there may be good reason for one more, introduced toward the end of the first book, making for four viewpoints/plot strands to be interwoven. Today's brainstorming session should clarify some of that.
Last night, we motored on down to the Railroad Square Cinema in beautiful Waterville and viewed the latest Harry Potter movie. Railroad Square is primarily an "arts" theater which, upon the death of the local Hoyts cinemaplex, pledged one of its four viewing rooms to screening Crass Commercial Ventures. Much more convenient than that 80-something-mile round trip to the Regal Cinemas in Augusta, and you get to see bizarre trailers; none of this King Arthur stuff.
The trailers were for Fahrenheit 911, and The Story of the Weeping Camel. I think I'll give Mr. Moore's little effort a miss, and while the camel movie looks gorgeous -- filmed in the Gobi Desert in the original Mongolian, with subtitles -- I don't think I'll be there for that one, either. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, now -- I'm there. I have lousy taste in movies; sue me.
Of the Potterage: I liked this one a bit more than the first two -- enough to be annoyed at the stuff necessarily left out. The Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite of the four Harry Potters I've read, and that may have added to my greater enjoyment of the movie. That said, I found the build-up of Sirius Black as a reallyReallyREALLY Bad Man much more annoying in the movie than in the book; and I really missed the opportunity for Harry to hear more about his father's friendship with Lupin and Black.
On balance, though, I had a good time and the DVD is on my to-buy list (with the other hundred or six, sigh...)
