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rose_griffes) wrote2018-07-26 10:23 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2018-07-26 10:23 pm
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pack that suitcase (again)
Almost time for yet another trip to visit siblings and nephews and nieces, who are scattered across the US. This will become exponentially more difficult when the nephews and nieces are old enough to live on their own. (That's starting to happen, but it's still in the early stages.)
As for other summer activities such as books, movies, etc., a lot of that has come to a temporary halt, since I'm now reading my way through three years of fanfiction for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (The movie from 2015 that I mentioned seeing recently, not the TV series from the 60s.) I bought the movie on blu-ray, I've lost count of the number of times I've rewatched it (hm, maybe 4?), and of course - OF COURSE - the muse has announced that I'm writing fanfic. For the first time in several years. I co-wrote a story in 2015, but the last thing I wrote alone and finished was in January 2014. So it's been a while.
I've never written fic for a movie before. It seemed too frustrating, having such a limited source for characterization. But apparently the muse doesn't care about that.
I think what amuses me most is that while the most endearing part of the movie for me was the budding romance between Illya and Gaby, the idea insisting on being written is angsty genfic about Gaby's childhood in post-war East Berlin.
Other stuff: this summer is one of few in memory with no mid-summer workshops. I'll have plenty to go to in a few weeks, but all of the conferences that I might have attended were scheduled for dates where I had other plans. (Also, I had a week-long workshop last summer, which keeps me certified in one area for a few more years.)
Question: is there a writing website you know of with short-term rewards? I've used Written? Kitten in the past, but the site currently doesn't function well. (I wrote at least 600 words today on the site, which should have rewarded me with six pictures of kittens, but alas! only one appeared...)
As for other summer activities such as books, movies, etc., a lot of that has come to a temporary halt, since I'm now reading my way through three years of fanfiction for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (The movie from 2015 that I mentioned seeing recently, not the TV series from the 60s.) I bought the movie on blu-ray, I've lost count of the number of times I've rewatched it (hm, maybe 4?), and of course - OF COURSE - the muse has announced that I'm writing fanfic. For the first time in several years. I co-wrote a story in 2015, but the last thing I wrote alone and finished was in January 2014. So it's been a while.
I've never written fic for a movie before. It seemed too frustrating, having such a limited source for characterization. But apparently the muse doesn't care about that.
I think what amuses me most is that while the most endearing part of the movie for me was the budding romance between Illya and Gaby, the idea insisting on being written is angsty genfic about Gaby's childhood in post-war East Berlin.
Other stuff: this summer is one of few in memory with no mid-summer workshops. I'll have plenty to go to in a few weeks, but all of the conferences that I might have attended were scheduled for dates where I had other plans. (Also, I had a week-long workshop last summer, which keeps me certified in one area for a few more years.)
Question: is there a writing website you know of with short-term rewards? I've used Written? Kitten in the past, but the site currently doesn't function well. (I wrote at least 600 words today on the site, which should have rewarded me with six pictures of kittens, but alas! only one appeared...)
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It's such a great movie. I've never written movie fanfic before, so I've lost count of how many times I've rewatched the blu-ray now. (I should think of it as a chance to establish characterization rather than "I'm going to mess up characterization," simply because there's not much in canon. Two hours isn't a lot.)