movies
New books become films before they are printed as books?
Think you have a unique story?
I’m tired of the remakes in Hollywood.
I’ve said it before. We need more originality.
Cookie cutter sitcoms? Plot based movies, where you can tabulate by time WHAT ‘s going to happen WHEN?
ugh.
Honestly, I’ve found that all stories tell either the tale of a man goes for a walk or a stranger comes to town.
And when you think about it, this is really the same story.
Or I might be borrowing that from someone.…
Because March is Women's History Month…or Life Tips from Thelma and Louise
I should talk about the role of women in history- how we have changed the world both with our own actions and voices and also by our encouragement and support of those weak-kneed bumbling idiots ruled by two heads, yes… men.
I could send you HERE to test your knowledge of the role of women in our history.
or link you to historical books and films that toot the feminine and not so feminine horn of achievement…
or I could just offer this:
13 Life Tips From Thelma and Louise
1. You get what you settle for. “I still have …
Write What You Know. Then Watch It.
Let’s face it. Writers are interesting people.
Of course Hollywood has cashed in on this. Besides, when you’re a writer, one of the first things you’ll find yourself doing when you sit down to the keyboard…is writing about what you’re doing.
( I can’t tell you how many bad stories I read every week that open with a conflicted author who becomes his character, or loses his mind. Then there are the stories that open with someone reading or writing the story you’re about to read, or keeping a journal, or finding a diary, or writing a script or … …
Dragon*Con Atlanta 2008 Secret
SHHHH. This is the secret.
You can have just as good a time for FREE at Dragon*Con.
Skip the line and pretend you know where you’re going. Head for the elevator.
then do what we did. Drink at all the lobby bars, ride the glass elevators and stroll the lobbies of 4 hotels, taking pictures like this:
Convince new friends to Play the “stranger in the picture” game 
and laugh knowing all kinds of people will go home unable to answer the question, “Who’s that blonde?”
Meet some crazy girls. Insult one by saying you love her gown, that you’d …
Famous people, crazy people
This weekend in Atlanta two different groups gather. Downtown over 20,000 people will attend DRAGON *CON. It is a huge deal. There’s a parade and everything.
I have a short list of people I’d like to see, including Mickey Dolenz, Adam West and Nathan Fillion…
Southeast of downtown in a small artsy town, many others will wander around Decatur for the annual Book Festival. There will be poetry, fiction, history, writing classes, book sales, panels with best sellers, readings by Pulitzer prize winners, cooking classes and stuff for the kids, plus my fav pub with one of the best selections …
Feast of Love: add this movie to your list
Sometimes you read a novel and think: This is beautiful. I can’t write like this. And then you hear it’s been picked up, and you worry that Hollywood will ruin it.
And then you watch it and cry and laugh and remember why you loved the characters in the book and you think, okay, I can do this, and how wonderful would it be if the words on my page came out as crying, laughing, smiling, loving people on a forty foot screen.
BTW
I met Charles Baxter in New York, told him how much I loved the book and …
That ain't no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.
Since I saw the movie, JUNO, I’ve been shuffling scribbled notes around my desk, from bird to mermaid paper weights and back again.. .forgetting I could just click on the IMDb page at any time to remind myself of the great dialogue.
like:
[at Juno's ultrasound]
Leah: Whoa! Check out Baby Big Head. Dude, that thing is freaky lookin’.
Juno MacGuff: Excuse me. I am a sacred vessel, alright? All you’ve got in your stomach is Taco Bell.
Juno MacGuff: [voice over] When I see them all running like that, with their things bouncing …
Tired of Remakes and Reruns.
Musicians do it all the time. Sometimes I like the remakes better, and yes, both artists reap the benefits, also the songwriter. When authors do it, you have to look a little harder, but still it’s there. Of course, Hollywood does it ALL the time. These are just a few of their unoriginal additions to TV and film.
When is enough enough? I’m not even going to go into the fact that most of America’s popular TV shows were stolen from other countries and remade…. it’s downright embarrassing.
More and more I believe in the 7/20/36 plot theory. Especially when …
If someone said they loved you when …
…you introduced them to something new, aren’t you obligated to share it ( the new thing- not the love, people) with the world?
Today I give you this- TA-DA -a way to watch brand new movies in the comfort of your own home, for free.
And because I am so not into that unconditional love crap, whatcha got for me?…
