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felis_ultharus) wrote2009-06-02 09:42 am
felis_ultharus) wrote2009-06-02 09:42 am
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montrealais is off in Europe for a couple of months. Even though I said goodbye to him yesterday -- and even though his mother called this morning -- I still kept turning down the sound on the computer's speaker, as if I was worried I'd wake him up.
I finished version six of my novel on Sunday, exactly on deadline. Still not perfect -- the last page continues to give me trouble, and there's moments throughout that give me trouble. But I think the change in tone was the last huge altered. Plot-wise, much less is different since last version.
I'm determined not to even look at it for a month. I've made that promise before, and failed, but I'm starting to draft something completely different. Medieval fantasy specifically. I've done so much research into the middle ages -- and how fantasy novels get the middle ages wrong -- that I might as well use it for something besides D&D games and historical research.
I'm also thoroughly addicted to Full Metal Alchemist, which has now replaced Evangelion as my all-time favourite anime. Thanks to the miracle fan-scanned translations, I have now read every issue of the manga out in Japan, and thanks to streaming video, I've seen all nine episodes for the second series out in Japan.
If anyone wants to compare the two anime series, the gory, horrific scene where the boys try (and fail) to bring their dead mother back to life is a good benchmark.
The scene in the first anime has good atmosphere, but is overplayed. The same scene in the second series (which starts seven minutes in, and includes unskippable commercials) is closer to the manga.
But it's interesting -- like comparing two different theatre companies doing Hamlet. Only with more bleeding children. And magic circles. Though it might be interesting to see a version of Hamlet where he brings Gertrude back from the dead and winds up with a cybernetic arm and leg. I'd pay to see that.
montrealais is off in Europe for a couple of months. Even though I said goodbye to him yesterday -- and even though his mother called this morning -- I still kept turning down the sound on the computer's speaker, as if I was worried I'd wake him up.I finished version six of my novel on Sunday, exactly on deadline. Still not perfect -- the last page continues to give me trouble, and there's moments throughout that give me trouble. But I think the change in tone was the last huge altered. Plot-wise, much less is different since last version.
I'm determined not to even look at it for a month. I've made that promise before, and failed, but I'm starting to draft something completely different. Medieval fantasy specifically. I've done so much research into the middle ages -- and how fantasy novels get the middle ages wrong -- that I might as well use it for something besides D&D games and historical research.
I'm also thoroughly addicted to Full Metal Alchemist, which has now replaced Evangelion as my all-time favourite anime. Thanks to the miracle fan-scanned translations, I have now read every issue of the manga out in Japan, and thanks to streaming video, I've seen all nine episodes for the second series out in Japan.
If anyone wants to compare the two anime series, the gory, horrific scene where the boys try (and fail) to bring their dead mother back to life is a good benchmark.
The scene in the first anime has good atmosphere, but is overplayed. The same scene in the second series (which starts seven minutes in, and includes unskippable commercials) is closer to the manga.
But it's interesting -- like comparing two different theatre companies doing Hamlet. Only with more bleeding children. And magic circles. Though it might be interesting to see a version of Hamlet where he brings Gertrude back from the dead and winds up with a cybernetic arm and leg. I'd pay to see that.
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Speaking of Fullmetal, I almost have a complete set of English manga. I'm missing two volumes -- I read them in French -- but once I have those, I'll send them off. I just wanted to make sure I knew what you have before I do (and also what you have in the way of Gravitation).
And I like editing, although not as much as I like writing original stuff. I've barely played anything lately. I'm still halfway through Shadow of the Colossus, and I really should finish that before someone goes and spoils the ending for me (it seems to be some big surprise).
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FF12 was flirting with that, and the problem was it had to sacrifice a lot of story to do the sandbox thing. Unlike the other Final Fantasies, the stakes were pretty low, because nothing could change - if you change something, you restrict the absolute freedom of the player. Other Final Fantasies destroyed whole cities and wiped places off the map, but FF12 couldn't because it would restrict the player.
Once you go in for the non-linear storyline sandbox seems to need, you lose something of the storytelling. Those are just my personal tastes, though :)