(Why did this comment only come into my inbox today? WTF LJ?)
I'm not going to tell you to read Harry Potter or watch the movies. If you ever went about choosing one, I'd highly recommend the books over the movies. I've recently caved and watched The Lion King for the first time last month and was kind of disappointed. I think I watched it without the nostalgia, so it was kind of mediocre for me compared to my friends' reactions. With that in mind, I wouldn't force you to rush to read Harry Potter; I think it's great, but I can't say that without personal bias and rose-tinted glasses firmly in place. Hype is a double edged sword - it creates a bigger fanbase, but by raising expectations it can sometimes lead to one finding disappointment.
Out of curiosity, how do you know it was 1000 hours lost? Do you write consistently for an hour a day, or is this something you generally log in for fun? Losing work - especially that much - is traumatising, but it reminds me of a story. An Australian winner for the Nobel Prize for Literature wrote a book with a pen in longhand script (no abbreviations), and finished like a bajillion words. He took the manuscript - being written by hand meant it was the only one in existence - and then burned it. Then, he sat down to rewrite everything by memory, figuring that anything worth writing again for the second time would be worth reading. Sooo, perhaps this mass deletion could mean you create an award winning book and recieve many accolades? :DDD
I remember having so much energy for FtOS. I think that fizzled out with my manga enthusiasm. I fell out of reading Naruto when Bleach and Kuroshitsuji all started seriously lagging in their plots and just went all over the place. Now that I'm on a break, I think I'll try catch up all the chapters to the current. Then again, I'm still a little grouchy about that bullshit time-skip Bleach pulled. asdfghjkl; Actually, I am getting a little bit of my enthusiasm back for horror-esque manga. I finished Uzumaki, which is really one of the biggest mindfucks of manga I'd ever read, and I'm slowly making my way through Battle Royale, which is apparently what Hunger Games plagarised off. I can certainly see the similarities and am seriously side-eyeing Suzanne Collins "I've never heard of it before"...
Oh! I started watching Misfits and The Walking Dead. Misfits is like season 1 Heroes and the British version of Skins. TWD keeps making me yell at the T.V computer screen. I am constantly terrified that they'll kill of the Asian guy - he is legitimately one of the nicest characters of the ensemble, I think - mainly because in zombie shows, the ethnic minorities always get killed off. CHINESE (FOOD) IS ALWAYS BETTER, NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE. >:D
Dymocks is offering "D Publishing", which is essentially vanity publishing. No checking, editing, etc. I kind of want to publish an 80 page book where all the pages just have "LOL" in big, black font. It's ridiculous, but it wouldn't cost much - like $8 a book or something. However, the way they're going about it, this is going to add a HUGE number of unedited books into their database for sale. One thing on my Bucket List is "Have a published version of something I read on my shelf". Vanity publishing, IMO, is cheating. Cool gift for family/friends, but still cheating a bit.
Wow, this reply got long. I think I'll finish while I'm ahead. XD
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Date: 2011-12-11 02:00 pm (UTC)I'm not going to tell you to read Harry Potter or watch the movies. If you ever went about choosing one, I'd highly recommend the books over the movies. I've recently caved and watched The Lion King for the first time last month and was kind of disappointed. I think I watched it without the nostalgia, so it was kind of mediocre for me compared to my friends' reactions. With that in mind, I wouldn't force you to rush to read Harry Potter; I think it's great, but I can't say that without personal bias and rose-tinted glasses firmly in place. Hype is a double edged sword - it creates a bigger fanbase, but by raising expectations it can sometimes lead to one finding disappointment.
Out of curiosity, how do you know it was 1000 hours lost? Do you write consistently for an hour a day, or is this something you generally log in for fun? Losing work - especially that much - is traumatising, but it reminds me of a story. An Australian winner for the Nobel Prize for Literature wrote a book with a pen in longhand script (no abbreviations), and finished like a bajillion words. He took the manuscript - being written by hand meant it was the only one in existence - and then burned it. Then, he sat down to rewrite everything by memory, figuring that anything worth writing again for the second time would be worth reading. Sooo, perhaps this mass deletion could mean you create an award winning book and recieve many accolades? :DDD
I remember having so much energy for FtOS. I think that fizzled out with my manga enthusiasm. I fell out of reading Naruto when Bleach and Kuroshitsuji all started seriously lagging in their plots and just went all over the place. Now that I'm on a break, I think I'll try catch up all the chapters to the current. Then again, I'm still a little grouchy about that bullshit time-skip Bleach pulled. asdfghjkl; Actually, I am getting a little bit of my enthusiasm back for horror-esque manga. I finished Uzumaki, which is really one of the biggest mindfucks of manga I'd ever read, and I'm slowly making my way through Battle Royale, which is apparently what Hunger Games plagarised off. I can certainly see the similarities and am seriously side-eyeing Suzanne Collins "I've never heard of it before"...
Oh! I started watching Misfits and The Walking Dead. Misfits is like season 1 Heroes and the British version of Skins. TWD keeps making me yell at the
T.Vcomputer screen. I am constantly terrified that they'll kill of the Asian guy - he is legitimately one of the nicest characters of the ensemble, I think - mainly because in zombie shows, the ethnic minorities always get killed off. CHINESE (FOOD) IS ALWAYS BETTER, NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE. >:DDymocks is offering "D Publishing", which is essentially vanity publishing. No checking, editing, etc. I kind of want to publish an 80 page book where all the pages just have "LOL" in big, black font. It's ridiculous, but it wouldn't cost much - like $8 a book or something. However, the way they're going about it, this is going to add a HUGE number of unedited books into their database for sale. One thing on my Bucket List is "Have a published version of something I read on my shelf". Vanity publishing, IMO, is cheating. Cool gift for family/friends, but still cheating a bit.
Wow, this reply got long. I think I'll finish while I'm ahead. XD