Finished Chapter Two

Which is now Chapter Three, and am working on the replaced Chapter Two. So the structure has thrown me a little bit. In fact, that first sentence doesn't make much sense.

So Chapter One is done, and I refuse to look at it for a while, or I'll panic and start editing. And never stop.

Chapter Three is done, but it needs a lot of tweaking. I need a better description of the Underworld, because right now it sounds like someone's grody basement. Which is not what I'm going for. Also I need to add details about the Door, because it's kind of important, and supposed to be scary and beautiful. I'll be adding a lot of details, and some dialogue.

Chapter Two is coming along, albeit fitfully. It's hard to write about regular people after having spent some time among gods. Poor Violet. Homework, class, job, AND people dying around her. Very stressful. And it's going to get a lot worse for her before it gets any better. If it ever gets better.

It's snowing like crazy here. I love it. I curl up in my apartment like a bear in her cave (only I have books and DVDs and writing to do). Cold weather like this puts me in the mood for horror movies. So, I've watched MISERY, and am currently enjoying the hot guys of RED DRAGON. Next is DAWN OF THE DEAD (the remake), which I have memorized.

In a few minutes I'm going to venture out for sushi. I'm very pleased with how the writing is going. Even if the whole exercise fails, and it sucks so bad it makes the reader go blind, it's good practice for writing longer pieces. But to be honest, I'm just having fun writing it.

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Who Watches The Watchmen? I Do!

So. Was reading up on THE WATCHMEN movie, due out in 2009. And I'm really, really worried it will suck. Note: Not worried in the sense of crying in my beer, waking up in a cold sweat, seeking counselling sense; just when I think about it, I get worried.

It's directed by Zach Snyder, which is OK. His remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD was fucking incredible, and is one of the movies I most frequently throw on when I want to just enjoy myself. 300, which some people consider anal leakage, wasn't terrible. The story sucked, but the graphic novel story sucked too. It was never Frank Miller's best work. And it looked incredible, and the cast was impressive considering what they had to work with. I saw it twice, inexplicably, and I didn't hate it. And since Snyder has worked with adaptations before, he (hopefully) knows how to be sensitive to source material.

The screenwriters: One wrote the first two X-MEN (yay!) and THE SCORPION KING (no!). The other is an unknown. Hm.

The cast: Thank the everloving fuck (what does that mean?) that they didn't cast Jude Law as Rorschach. I would have gone kamikaze. Or bitched about it incessantly to you poor people. Luckily, Jackie Earle Haley from LITTLE CHILDREN is doing it (is it just me, or does he look EXACTLY like Spider from TRANSMETROPOLITAN?) He should bee good.

Patrick Wilson doesn't really look like The Nite Owl, but he's a good actor. Billy Crudup as Dr. Manahattan is really interesting. I'm indifferent to the chick. And Matthew Goode could go either way as Adrien Veidt.

So, until I hear otherwise, I'm going to be cautiously optimistic. The cast is... weird. I'll say that. And not my first choices (although my first choices were insane, so that's probably a good thing.) Alan Moore is most likely stroking out somewhere over this. Let's hope it's closer to V FOR VENDETTA than THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN.

I'm watching the Watchmen. Sorry. I just like saying that. Off to go drinking with some friends from my old journalism class. May THE WATCHMEN not suck.
- LV

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