Gah!

[the_gneech]

The SJ Forums are all FUBAR again. Every time the Keenspot Powers That Be utter the dread word "Upgrade" I cringe, 'cause I know we're in for a month of this crud.

Anyway, enough about that. :)

I finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire yesterday; I am now current on the Harry Potter series. On the whole, I like it, although I am sorta fretting at the idea that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is rumored to be a chapter longer than Goblet of Fire -- that one was already pushing it, in my opinion. My favorite overall so far is the third book, Prisoner of Azkaban, even if the characters did spend the whole book being irritable and constantly on the verge of biting each others' heads off.

Dave at Plan Nine keeps drawing parallels between Harry Potter and NeverNever, and I can certainly see his point. However, I can also see NN's big flaw starting to creep into Harry Potter in Goblet of Fire -- it's ponderous, man, really ponderous. GoF comes dangerous close to collapsing under its own weight, just as NN is threatening to do. I'll be watching with great interest to see how she gets around this problem -- assuming she does.

However, examing Harry Potter has given me some interesting grist for the NN mill ... assuming I can get out of the current rut, I may have some cool new directions for the storyline to go. The hard part, is getting out of the rut gracefully.

I have for the past day or two also been having Michael Macbeth pop up in my awareness a bit ... he does this every once in a while, usually saying, "Write me!" but without giving me anything vaguely like a story idea. At least this time, I have a bit of a hook to work with ... I'll see if I can flesh it out a bit this weekend.

• MFF tax paperwork
  
  
• Arden/Leona pic
  
  
• Finish LKCMSL fursona pic
  
  
• Clean up around the apartment some
  
  
• Strips for Weds + Fri
  
  
• Send out Xmas Cards / Prezzies
  
  
• Drezzer/T'Chall photo shoot
  
  
• Art trade for So What's Human
  
  
• Cootchie! Cootchie! for CC
  
  
• Gnorman - "Bad to the Gnome" pic
  
  
• NN Contest winner - Mopsy pic
  
  
• Foxcutter pic
  
  
• Ink and color Ramses pic
  
  
• New Leonard pic
  
  
• Begin work on new SJ book
  
  
• Work on new NN content
  
  
• Work on SJ site redesign -- UP ON JAN 1?
  
  
• AC sales tax paperwork
  
  
• New art style practice
  
  
• Finish Soloman at the stones story
  
  
• Work on Ethangea novel outline / Michael Macbeth ideas

Catcha later!

-The Gneech

Comments

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I find myself disinclined to add to your Things to Do list.

But I'm pleased that your creative juices are flowing, or at least swirling. ];)

===|==============/ Level Head

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I wanna do that pic! Send me the info!

-The Gneech

Harry Potter?

[vik_thor]

So #5 is actually supposedly finished now?
Last I'd heard, the projected publication date was Nov2003. (I think...)
(and that at one point, she had an almost (if not totally) complete manuscript, and ended up throwing it out.... THAT would be an interesting read!!!)

ahhh... the rumours one hears working in a bookstore! :)

Re: Harry Potter?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Last I heard was summer 2003 for Book #5, and summer 2004 for Movie #3.

-The Gneech ("Who is #1?")

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

I'll add one to the TMTD list:

1) Have fun! :)

2) Have even more fun! :D

Yeah, the KeenForums are a real drag. :(
As far as I can figure out, they *do* accept posts
and replies, but the software doesn't increment the
number of replies, nor does it send out reply
notifications.

HP - NN. Yeah, I can see the similarities. But I
don't see NN collapsing under its own weight. I
think that's something you see that I just don't
clue in on. Maybe because you've got more in your
head than I do, but I think in the past you've kept
it nicely light, so I don't consider it heavy.

It's definitely a popular theme: Little kid
who's secretly a prince or princess or sorceror
and doesn't know it.

Throw in adventure and you've got a million seller.

Good stuff!

Scott

Harry Potter...

[murrrmaiyd.livejournal.com]

Actually, I like the length of book four, and like the idea of book five being longer, because I didn't feel any lag in the story, and I like long books....I read fast, but I'm enjoying the story, and when the book is short, it's over too quick.

But I do agree about Prisoner of Azkaban being best so far...it was nicely twisty, and I really like the Sirius Black character anyway.

Mur