I’ve recently developed a taste for Ennio Morricone’s music. My writing process these days consists of me sitting down and watching this youtube clip:
After that, I’m all gunned up and ready to work!
Holy crap, today I sent out the first three chapters of Genesis Earth to the other two editors from the BYU Writers for Young Readers conference. What a rush! I spent a couple hours writing a chapter by chapter synopsis, rushed out a couple cover letters, bought $4.81 in wood pulp for both copies of the work, headed on over to the BYU Bookstore for the envelopes and all, and voila! Sent ’em off!
We’ll see what comes of them–probably more form rejections. It’s funny how when you print something off to send it out, it seems ten times worse than you remembered.
Well, I sent it out anyway. With writing, good things never happen to those who wait.
The question in my mind is now: does that synopsis count towards my daily word count goal? Because I only wrote 1,072 words in Genesis Earth 3.0 today (nothing in Ashes, sadly), but that synopsis was upwards of 2,800 words and took up a good chunk of my normal writing time. Eh, I’m counting it.
In unrelated news, I saw Star Trek the other day. Found it entertaining, but wasn’t very impressed. Too many holes that stretched the believability.
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For example, in the beginning, Kirk’s wife goes into labor during the evacuation and the child pops out…like, five minutes later? Or the red, fleshy monster on the ice world: no visible fat, no fur…how does that thing stay insulated in such a hostile environment? Or the Romulans drilling to the core of the world to create the black hole: why don’t they just create a black hole on the surface? Gets the job done a lot easier. Better yet, when Nero realizes that he’s gone back in time and his home world hasn’t yet been destroyed, why doesn’t he save his people instead of avenging himself on the Vulcans? Or…you get the point.
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I was never a big Star Trek fan growing up, though (except for Star Trek Voyager–I loved Voyager!). I can understand how the nostalgia would make a lot of people enjoy the movie. And really, it was very pretty–the graphics were great. Lots of action. It was entertaining, just…not as good as everyone makes it out to be, IMO.
I could say more, but that’s enough for tonight. Have a wonderful Sabbath!
Haha, you don’t know much about birthing, do you? They can happen in 5 minutes or 36 hours (and I know women who’ve done both)! Also, black holes are formed core-first in nature, so it made sense to me why they’d start with a core when manufacturing one. Also, vengeance never makes _sense_ Joe, it’s about emotions and pain and hurt and trying to make those hurts better in all the wrong ways.
And those are my answers to a few of your questions. Mwahahahahahaaa….
But later in the movie, they created a black hole out of the red matter WITHOUT dropping it into the core of a planet, showing that you don’t HAVE to drop it into a world in order for it to work. Besides, how do you drill to the center of a planet anyway? Once you get into the mantle, it’s all liquid, so your hole isn’t going to stay open. Realistically, that drilling device would create a massive volcano instead of drilling to the “center” of the world. And whether or not the birthing sequence was realistic, it WAS hopelessly cliche. I mean, what was she doing on her husband’s ship in the first place? Doesn’t family of military personnel stay home while their loved ones are on duty? Etc etc ad nauseum.
“Blah blah blah, my name is Joe and I hate good movies”
That’s what you sound like to me!