Reading and listening are two very different ways to receive information. I'm sorry if you don't agree with this but there's no way you're going to convince me otherwise.
In terms of acting, films are generally made or massacred by the acting in them I find. I'm a fan of Rachel McAdams, but I accept that Red Eye was a bad film. Meet Joe Black is a great film for numerous reasons. The concept is original and interesting, the acting is phenomenal, the soundtrack is brilliant. I don't care for any of the named actors honestly. The only person I currently consistently like is Rachel McAdams.
That thing is no longer my thing with which to concern myself. I am both breathtakingly grateful and also bathed in saudade.
What thing? What's saudade? Googling now... Your post's always contain words I have to look up for. ETA: I just found its meaning. Beautiful.
Jennifer Connelly is that rare thing for me, a woman whose presence manages to slice past my rainbow nature. I've always been transfixed by her tall, willowy, anti-blond visage.
She got me in Labyrinth. I was actually less impressed with her when she, erm, blossomed? so remarkably. Yeah, *****-bankable, but I think her talent is more apparent when you don't have to force yourself to look upwards long enough to notice it.
I will never write a same sex couple in 3rd POV after this current WIP. It gets really hard to keep MC POV in the naughty scenes, without having POV intrusion from the other party.
Good point. I read some gay literature recommended by a friend one time and there was a scene where five or six guys who had all been involved with each other at some point or other were having coffee (not a euphemism, they were just having coffee together) and reminiscing a bit and yeah, everything was "he did this with him, but after they broke up, he confessed to me that he didn't really enjoy it" and I was just baffled. Might have been what the author was going for, I don't remember much (like author's name or title or any trivia like that) but I do remember it had been shortlisted for Something Notable.
According to Lady J, having the secondary character butt in, in a POV violation to the MC's limited 3rd. And also the pronoun game from hell, which is hard to keep things straight in what is going on sometimes.
As a writer who solely deals in he-he stories, I can corroborate. It does teach you to reach for other constructions, different syntactic vehicles so you can give that little 4-door HeHe a break.
I was talking to someone on LFAD about mine and CT's relationship, when I stumbled onto an intriguing hypothetical scenario: If my sister (my only sibling) needed my help with something... I'm not certain I'd feel inclined to do anything. But if @Cave Troll needed anything, I'd help him without question. I don't know where I'm going with this honestly. I just found it interesting.
I unwittingly hold my breath... all the time... without realizing it. Until I do in fact realize it. Then I hyperventilate. It's like my breathing "idle" is effed up and I have to manually rev the engine to keep it from stalling.
