Live and Let Die...

Yeah, have that song stuck in my head AGAIN...


Had to ditch Vamp Kisses....turned out to be waaay too teenager-y for me.

Went back to an old standby: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Yeah. Sweeeeeet.


Currently trying to write a script for a comic book.
Here's some definite characteristics:
-Introspective -> most of the action happens in flashbacks

-Post-Apocalypic -> totally didn't meant for it to be set in P.A. Texas panhandle...but that's what happens sometimes while storytelling.

-All about the protagonist -> okay, some would ask "what literature isn't?"
Reach Charles Dickens. His characters are completely linked (like, to the core) with the settings in which Dickens has placed them.
Oliver Twist is more about the state of the poor in England in Dickens' time than it is about a poor boy going through shitty life experiences.
...even though his life experiences are inexorably linked to the state of his surroundings, and these experiences give us a unique view into the state of his surroundings.

Yeah...completely linked.
My prot. Aleksander is the agent of plot, even when stuff happens TO him rather than him MAKING stuff happen, because we only see it through his eyes.

Anyway, fun time, even though it's beating the crap out of me with a sign that says "YOU'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE!!!!!!"

Vampire Kisses

Yes, I'm following the vamp lit trend.

Hell no I have not and will not read Twilight.


Now on Vampire Kisses 3: Vampireville.

...this series is pretty much what Twilight should have been:
More about an intelligent teenage girl's reactions to entering a previously unknown supernatural world through her romance with a vampire, than about the supernatural world itself.
Especially since the rest of Raven's 'world' (i.e., Dullsville) puts so much pressure on her to act and look a certain way.

Everything is experienced at Raven-level, so there isn't any temptation to make the series more grandiose or world-encompassing than it needs to be.


That being said, Schreiber takes a too much time describing Raven's goth-ness.
We get it. She's gothic.
Stop telling us the details of her black eyeshadow/lipstick/nail polish application process EVERY TIME she does it.
Same thing with how her room looks.
We KNOW she has an Edward Scissorhands lamp and sleeps with a Hello Batty plush.

Basically, I shouldn't get overwhelmed by her goth-ness in EVERY SINGLE BOOK.
This could have all been done ONCE in the first book, and just left to implication and reader foreknowledge for the rest of the series.




Anyway, still chugging along in school.
I'm starting to think I'm the teacher's pet in Spanish.

I mean come on, when the teacher uses YOUR notes to create test questions, what else can you think?
Same thing with asking me every day "what did we cover last time"?