Friday morning from The Cottage of Blog
The Cottage of Blog
Thanks all of you who responded to my whining yesterday. I now feel loved and appreciated LOL I think we all need to know there are people out there who love us. (or at least read our ramblings)
I only wrote an hour yesterday. I'm figuring out sections, but still haven't gotten the mathematical plotting equation into my head yet.
EVAN MARSHALL'S BLUEPRINT:
Lets see, for every block that would equal 5 sections at 5-10 pages each. There are 10 blocks (I have to go look them up) So, 10 times 5 equals 50 time 5 equals 250. That works pretty well. Assuming the sections don't go to 10 pages which would equal 500 pages. Woops.
Truth be told, I love the Vogler blocks, but they are a bit rigid. Although I'm sure you'd find them if you looked hard enough.
I'd be hard pressed to find 5 sections in my ordinary world. In a romance who's the ordinary world calculated by? Is that the meeting between the H/H? I always immediately think, inciting incident--but, I'm not sure that's true.
For instance, my heroine's ordinary world is smashed by the phone call in the first paragraph. Nothing is the same after that--unless you want to consider that as part of her terrifying ordinary world. In that case maybe her meeting hero would be the jump into the "Call to Adventure." Janie, I'll have to go check your blocks and put them up on my computer to see what they are.
I'm thinking the sections remind me of the card system whereby you put those happenings scenes, sequels etc on note cards and put them on a huge cork board. Let me tell you right now, that never worked for me, because A) I don't have enough wall space to still a huge cork board and B) Half of them got lost anyway. It's still easier to put them on a computer and make a list.
With sections as apart from writing chapters, you can change the individual happenings, scenes and sequels whereevver you want without worrying about your chapter breaks and page numbers. I'm beginning to see the wisdom of this.
Now, I think all of you are way to nice and law abiding citizens to answer this next question but here goes. If you wanted to hack into police records about one of their employees, how would you go about it? No, I'm personally not going to do this, but one of my characters is, and instead of just saying villian hacked into police computer records and found . . . I'd really like to show him doing it, preferable from the comfort of his living room.
I might have some time to write this afternoon. The kids will be going to a pep rally as tonight is homecoming. No, I'm not going. I probably should. They ask me to every year and, there's a dance tonight. I've never done the whole routine, pep rally, football game and dance.
I really should. I'm getting old I think. I'd rather be writing. i don't think I would have felt this way twenty or even ten years ago. Where has all my energy gone? Each year erodes just a little more of the stuff.
Last night I watched a portion of Black Beauty. I did miss some, the good news is I have this particular version on video. The 1994 version is supurb, but I can understand what the critiques said aboutit. It's a movie that should be a classic, it's that well made. But, it's neither fish nor foul. It's a children's classic, so adults won't understand that the social implications in this story are way above young viewers heads (I'm not sure even Ms Sewell wrote this entirely for children) and children will be restless because the Lion King tunes won't be filtering through the movies and the actors have, forgive me "English accents." Well, I'm not sure I agree with that last part. Harry Potter actors have English accents as do LOR. so--But were tehy really written solely for children either? I think those two are mainly for mainstream audiences. To me they are, anyway.
Anyway, if anyone of you are animal loves and really want to cry and laugh and feel cathartic toward the animals you love, go rent, or better yet buy the 1994 version (Sean Bean) of Black Beauty. It's a story told from the horse's point of view.
Happy reading, writing and revising from
The Cottage of Blog
Pat
Thanks all of you who responded to my whining yesterday. I now feel loved and appreciated LOL I think we all need to know there are people out there who love us. (or at least read our ramblings)
I only wrote an hour yesterday. I'm figuring out sections, but still haven't gotten the mathematical plotting equation into my head yet.
EVAN MARSHALL'S BLUEPRINT:
Lets see, for every block that would equal 5 sections at 5-10 pages each. There are 10 blocks (I have to go look them up) So, 10 times 5 equals 50 time 5 equals 250. That works pretty well. Assuming the sections don't go to 10 pages which would equal 500 pages. Woops.
Truth be told, I love the Vogler blocks, but they are a bit rigid. Although I'm sure you'd find them if you looked hard enough.
I'd be hard pressed to find 5 sections in my ordinary world. In a romance who's the ordinary world calculated by? Is that the meeting between the H/H? I always immediately think, inciting incident--but, I'm not sure that's true.
For instance, my heroine's ordinary world is smashed by the phone call in the first paragraph. Nothing is the same after that--unless you want to consider that as part of her terrifying ordinary world. In that case maybe her meeting hero would be the jump into the "Call to Adventure." Janie, I'll have to go check your blocks and put them up on my computer to see what they are.
I'm thinking the sections remind me of the card system whereby you put those happenings scenes, sequels etc on note cards and put them on a huge cork board. Let me tell you right now, that never worked for me, because A) I don't have enough wall space to still a huge cork board and B) Half of them got lost anyway. It's still easier to put them on a computer and make a list.
With sections as apart from writing chapters, you can change the individual happenings, scenes and sequels whereevver you want without worrying about your chapter breaks and page numbers. I'm beginning to see the wisdom of this.
Now, I think all of you are way to nice and law abiding citizens to answer this next question but here goes. If you wanted to hack into police records about one of their employees, how would you go about it? No, I'm personally not going to do this, but one of my characters is, and instead of just saying villian hacked into police computer records and found . . . I'd really like to show him doing it, preferable from the comfort of his living room.
I might have some time to write this afternoon. The kids will be going to a pep rally as tonight is homecoming. No, I'm not going. I probably should. They ask me to every year and, there's a dance tonight. I've never done the whole routine, pep rally, football game and dance.
I really should. I'm getting old I think. I'd rather be writing. i don't think I would have felt this way twenty or even ten years ago. Where has all my energy gone? Each year erodes just a little more of the stuff.
Last night I watched a portion of Black Beauty. I did miss some, the good news is I have this particular version on video. The 1994 version is supurb, but I can understand what the critiques said aboutit. It's a movie that should be a classic, it's that well made. But, it's neither fish nor foul. It's a children's classic, so adults won't understand that the social implications in this story are way above young viewers heads (I'm not sure even Ms Sewell wrote this entirely for children) and children will be restless because the Lion King tunes won't be filtering through the movies and the actors have, forgive me "English accents." Well, I'm not sure I agree with that last part. Harry Potter actors have English accents as do LOR. so--But were tehy really written solely for children either? I think those two are mainly for mainstream audiences. To me they are, anyway.
Anyway, if anyone of you are animal loves and really want to cry and laugh and feel cathartic toward the animals you love, go rent, or better yet buy the 1994 version (Sean Bean) of Black Beauty. It's a story told from the horse's point of view.
Happy reading, writing and revising from
The Cottage of Blog
Pat
posted by Unknown at 5:57 AM
1 Comments:
Evening Pat....I loved your comments about the sections.
And yes...I'm an animal lover too. My little Sheltie, 'Buddy', is 8 months old now. We just got back from PetSmart having spent sixty dollars on chew toys for his teeth.
And I LOVE Black Beauty. A great movie. And yes, I'd watch Sean Bean take out the garbage, he's so cute.
:-)
Cindy, who is so very thankful it's Friday.
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