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Post by fosterchild on Sept 4, 2007 22:16:35 GMT -5
I was lying in the sun this morning jotting down some ideas for the sept. rumble.....then, of course, i got more ideas and now i think i might scratch the original idea.....
i'm tired.
zika, yes, you're icon is hysterical!
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Post by zickachik73 on Sept 5, 2007 14:46:44 GMT -5
haha, thanks!  It seemed appropriate, as every time I read the book and/or see the movie and/or see screen shots from the movie, that's my thought process. Sort of like when Tensleep and I send emails back and forth (we beta for each other, though she writes 100x more than me, lol). If I use the word chapter and shorten it to chap, my mind automatically goes to chaps, which goes to cowboys, which makes me go "mmmmmm". By now, if I'm writing, "Great Chap, Tens. mmmmm." She gets it.
LMAO - we're crazy, i'm pretty sure.
Do you have a title for your newest, Mars?
I'm thinking about the september rumble too, but so far, I'm drawing blanks or short sticks. I have ideas, and then they run away. Damn those plot bunnies.
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Post by fosterchild on Sept 5, 2007 14:57:19 GMT -5
Great minds think alike, zika.....even the sick ones!  Mars, any idea when you're going to start posting the new story? I check on ff.net and scroll down just hoping for a surprise. Unfortunately it's been overrun with Mary-Sues and ridiculous plots. |
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Post by fosterchild on Sept 5, 2007 14:57:48 GMT -5
oh wow.....answered before i even asked! lol
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Post by zevie on Sept 5, 2007 15:13:36 GMT -5
"I know I feel like some sections are all naked and they need clothes. I mean this figuratively lol."
Only figuratively? *sigh*
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Post by fosterchild on Sept 5, 2007 15:14:38 GMT -5
Again with the great minds thinking alike! I'm glad you said it first, though. I don't want to seem like a pervert!  |
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Post by zevie on Sept 5, 2007 15:18:22 GMT -5
I *knew* you were thinking it too, FC.  |
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Post by fairlane on Sept 5, 2007 16:03:44 GMT -5
Action - I think I can write a one on one fight okay, but once there is more than about three people involved I don't know where to put them all and what to do with it. I find the one on one conflict interesting to write because of the tension involved, and I enjoy writing the dialogue for it. Actual big fight sequences I find both hard and boring to write.
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Post by fairlane on Sept 5, 2007 16:14:09 GMT -5
My boyfriend is an ex-boxer, and he often comments on fight scenes in movies - "Yeah, like that would happen!" type stuff, sometimes I want to read him my fight scenes and ask what he thinks but I suspect he'd laugh, and I'd never bring myself to write anything else again lol.
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Post by BlindedxxFalcon on Sept 5, 2007 16:22:45 GMT -5
Ah, I am SO bad about backups. I don't have any! Everyone knows my passwords, so now I'm parinoid. I just have to change the main password to get on my screen...takes about a minute. I'm pretty mean to my brothers exept the youngest and the three oldest...but that still leaves 3!
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Post by fairlane on Sept 5, 2007 16:34:01 GMT -5
He'll probably tell me I've made Tim too much of a kick-ass fighter lol. I've seen a few street and bar fights, and I've never actually seen anyone felled with a single punch.
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Post by zickachik73 on Sept 5, 2007 20:59:14 GMT -5
I've seen people felled with a single punch - it just depends on who's punching and who's being punched. In a group of hoods, though, it's unlikely.
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Post by fairlane on Sept 5, 2007 21:19:02 GMT -5
It happens when Tim has just gotten out of prison so he's all buff from lifting weights inside ok. Yeah I know it's unlikely lol. I don't really know what to do with fight scenes so I just end them quickly.
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Post by zickachik73 on Sept 6, 2007 22:27:04 GMT -5
sounds like a decent plan to me, FL! I like to make them vague and move right along. Avoidance is key!
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Post by hahukumkonn on Sept 7, 2007 0:03:53 GMT -5
Re fight scenes.
The one thing I think works well for large group fighting scenes is to consider how confusing it would be for someone actually there - a punch here, a kick there, but no coherent view of how it's proceeding as a whole.
S.E. Hinton actually did a good job with doing that, in her rumble scene.
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It seemed appropriate, as every time I read the book and/or see the movie and/or see screen shots from the movie, that's my thought process. 
