Star Trek
I Actually Wrote Something
23/06/09 19:33
Read that title again. Yes, it's true. I actually
wrote something. Honest.
With the plot plan for The Silent Goodbye now complete, I took it upon myself to write the first page (yes, all of a single page, perhaps 250 words) of the next section. Not much but it is something. Gold begins his long walk through the humid darkness back to his apartment.
It felt good. Really good. It took a while and I have already identified several revisions that I have to do to that single page but it felt sooo good to be writing again.
It also felt very good to re-read the court-room opening argument scene I had written several months ago and to find myself really enjoying it. It's a good scene. It's effective and dramatic and not so very far from what actually happens in criminal court that I have to be embarrassed by it. Opening arguments in criminal trials can go on for hours, even days, which makes it hard to make them both dramatic and realistic. Gold's opening is extremely short but I think it hits the right mark from a suspense and tension standpoint.
I'm pretty pleased with it.
So we start to work again. Slowly. Carefully. For now. Speed and stamina will come with time.
And another hummingbird appeared in our yard today. I saw him sitting on our clothesline and managed to snap all of two pictures, from long distance and through a dirty window, before he flew away. So check out the Backyard Birds page on this site for a grainy picture of the little humdinger (as my mother used to call them).
The photo is nowhere near the quality my friend Madeleine takes in her backyard back in Ontario but it will do for now.
Sexist Star Trek Note: In the episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", Captain Koloth complains to Kirk that Klingon vessels don't carry "non-essentials", meaning women. He even waves his hands in what appears to be a description of feminine curves as he says it. Yikes!
With the plot plan for The Silent Goodbye now complete, I took it upon myself to write the first page (yes, all of a single page, perhaps 250 words) of the next section. Not much but it is something. Gold begins his long walk through the humid darkness back to his apartment.
It felt good. Really good. It took a while and I have already identified several revisions that I have to do to that single page but it felt sooo good to be writing again.
It also felt very good to re-read the court-room opening argument scene I had written several months ago and to find myself really enjoying it. It's a good scene. It's effective and dramatic and not so very far from what actually happens in criminal court that I have to be embarrassed by it. Opening arguments in criminal trials can go on for hours, even days, which makes it hard to make them both dramatic and realistic. Gold's opening is extremely short but I think it hits the right mark from a suspense and tension standpoint.
I'm pretty pleased with it.
So we start to work again. Slowly. Carefully. For now. Speed and stamina will come with time.
And another hummingbird appeared in our yard today. I saw him sitting on our clothesline and managed to snap all of two pictures, from long distance and through a dirty window, before he flew away. So check out the Backyard Birds page on this site for a grainy picture of the little humdinger (as my mother used to call them).
The photo is nowhere near the quality my friend Madeleine takes in her backyard back in Ontario but it will do for now.
Sexist Star Trek Note: In the episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", Captain Koloth complains to Kirk that Klingon vessels don't carry "non-essentials", meaning women. He even waves his hands in what appears to be a description of feminine curves as he says it. Yikes!
Star Trek Hangover
13/05/09 20:51
Star Trek conversations abound in my life, even on my
Facebook page. Why didn't the Vulcans attack the
drilling platform themselves? Why did Kirk let the
red-shirt carry the explosive charges? Is the new
version of Chekov really just a Wesley Crusher clone?
A colleague down in Saint John supports the Spock/Uhura romantic entanglement on two fronts: first, Uhura sang a love song to a grinning Spock in "Charlie X", an early TOS episode, and second a lot of the fan fiction involves the science and communications officers getting it on. Interesting.
Trekkies coming out of the wood work all over the place.
So far I've rewatched the first nine of TOS episodes in the order they aired. I've been watching them on my seven-inch portable DVD player to better simulate what it must have been like with a small 1960s-era TV set. Interesting to see them again. A lot of sexuality. A lot of helpless women being taken care of by strong strong men. So maybe the new movie has it right!
Still not feeling well, though. Marlee seems to be getting better but not so much me. Soon, I hope.
And I saw my first real live purple finch. Wow. Bright red head, with the colouring bleeding strongly down onto the body. Now that I've seen a real one, I'll never mistake a house finch for a purple finch again. The house finch, while still pretty, is nowhere near as spectacular.
A colleague down in Saint John supports the Spock/Uhura romantic entanglement on two fronts: first, Uhura sang a love song to a grinning Spock in "Charlie X", an early TOS episode, and second a lot of the fan fiction involves the science and communications officers getting it on. Interesting.
Trekkies coming out of the wood work all over the place.
So far I've rewatched the first nine of TOS episodes in the order they aired. I've been watching them on my seven-inch portable DVD player to better simulate what it must have been like with a small 1960s-era TV set. Interesting to see them again. A lot of sexuality. A lot of helpless women being taken care of by strong strong men. So maybe the new movie has it right!
Still not feeling well, though. Marlee seems to be getting better but not so much me. Soon, I hope.
And I saw my first real live purple finch. Wow. Bright red head, with the colouring bleeding strongly down onto the body. Now that I've seen a real one, I'll never mistake a house finch for a purple finch again. The house finch, while still pretty, is nowhere near as spectacular.