I understand what you mean. I was too late in picking up "A Series of Unfortunate Events", which a friend of mine absolutely adored when he was younger. However, I found the writing too simplistic, and definitely targeted at a different age bracket. Even when I re-read some old favourites, like some of Emily Rodda's work, my mind notices the writing style as a little off to what I'm used to now; I still love it, but I always wonder whether that's due to me reading it as a child. :S
Sleeping Beauty always annoyed me - the curse was to touch a spindle and die fall into an endless sleep. So the king burned all the spindles and the princess grew up never seeing a spindle. A) MAGIC EXISTS THEREFORE LOGIC IS NULL - burning all of them will do NOTHING, B) Why didn't they keep ONE or a picture of one to show as a WARNING?, and C) That would have annoyed the locals - how else are they going to make thread or whatever? asdfghjkl;
Lately I've been writing at 1 in the mornings, thinking oh God, this is brilliant and then I wake up at 11am and think WHAT HAVE I DONE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? DDD: I have faith that with time, trickles of your first draft will come back to you, and even if you don't catch it all, you'd be able to polish it to a new brilliance. :)
It's kind of a habit to stay up-to-date with the canons of any fandoms I'm in. It's because I get rather annoyed when I get spoiled by reading a fanfic. I know that's not so much of an issue with animanga fandoms, but still. Apparently the newest chapters of Bleach are causing a huge ton of wank. :/ In good news, I am close to 50% done buying the English versions of Full Metal Alchemist. ... It is taking up a lot more room on my shelves than initially anticipated. ^^;;
I wish I could do kung-fu. As it is, I fight dirty, with nails and biting and whatnot. Not so much badassery, but eh, it gets the job done. I've always wondered why animals aren't more often portrayed getting a strain of zombie virus. There was "I Am Legend" where the dog got it, but imagine if you were on the run from, I don't know, zombie!birds, or zombie!cats, or dear lord, zombie!ants. I guess that is just too terrifiying because then nowhere would be safe. D:
Nah, I'd rather publish something under a penname and then give out a copy to friends/family, see what they think when they don't know I've written it. That's the plan, anyway. I don't know what I'd do if they'd criticised the book, but I guess the LOL,awkward-factor of revealing I'd written it would be worth it. XD After swimming around cyberspace, there's little they can say that would trump stuff I've read by flamers or trolls. ^^
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Sleeping Beauty always annoyed me - the curse was to touch a spindle and
diefall into an endless sleep. So the king burned all the spindles and the princess grew up never seeing a spindle. A) MAGIC EXISTS THEREFORE LOGIC IS NULL - burning all of them will do NOTHING, B) Why didn't they keep ONE or a picture of one to show as a WARNING?, and C) That would have annoyed the locals - how else are they going to make thread or whatever? asdfghjkl;Lately I've been writing at 1 in the mornings, thinking oh God, this is brilliant and then I wake up at 11am and think WHAT HAVE I DONE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? DDD: I have faith that with time, trickles of your first draft will come back to you, and even if you don't catch it all, you'd be able to polish it to a new brilliance. :)
It's kind of a habit to stay up-to-date with the canons of any fandoms I'm in. It's because I get rather annoyed when I get spoiled by reading a fanfic. I know that's not so much of an issue with animanga fandoms, but still. Apparently the newest chapters of Bleach are causing a huge ton of wank. :/ In good news, I am close to 50% done buying the English versions of Full Metal Alchemist. ... It is taking up a lot more room on my shelves than initially anticipated. ^^;;
I wish I could do kung-fu. As it is, I fight dirty, with nails and biting and whatnot. Not so much badassery, but eh, it gets the job done. I've always wondered why animals aren't more often portrayed getting a strain of zombie virus. There was "I Am Legend" where the dog got it, but imagine if you were on the run from, I don't know, zombie!birds, or zombie!cats, or dear lord, zombie!ants. I guess that is just too terrifiying because then nowhere would be safe. D:
Nah, I'd rather publish something under a penname and then give out a copy to friends/family, see what they think when they don't know I've written it. That's the plan, anyway. I don't know what I'd do if they'd criticised the book, but I guess the LOL,awkward-factor of revealing I'd written it would be worth it. XD After swimming around cyberspace, there's little they can say that would trump stuff I've read by flamers or trolls. ^^