thanks.

three more weeks. next week we'll try and get photographs of people in shopping malls. security always hates that.

cool :)

beside, if it wasn't intense, it'd be a rip off. but i'm glad it was intense. this one gave me the most problems.

the trick is to make them both right. that's what i was trying for, and if you can nail that, i reckon it stops the preachiness coming out. but one of the things that made it difficult is that i wanted to avoid some of the things i had been doing in early parts, where i would have the character narrate a scene in dialogue. a sort of mini monologue. i wanted to avoid that and it made it a bit harder to balance.

anyhow.

i'm glad you liked the russian princess thing. it's a fun little piece. what were some of the bits you didn't get? there's a logic flaw in it for me that almost drove me insane when writing it, but i figured the ability to see it either way was okay.

yeah, it was a form of cyrogenics. they freeze the head and pump in a virtual reality sensation of time and play with the mind a little to make sure thy're rehabbed.

it's best not to apply too much rigid thinking to that stuff, i find. when i talk anything science like (and it's not often) it's firmly in the science fantasy world.

coooool :)

cool. thanks.

thanks.

it's probably not hard to figure i fall on red's side, but i tried to make it so both were right. makes it more interesting, i think.

i don't think it's just that girls don't like confrontation, or that they aren't as real as this... most people aren't. most people, when you sit and listen to their conversation, is actually really boring to read. it's like a hemingway story in that way. (and some of the stories he wrote with that natural dialogue are as boring as anything.) but i reckon that's where fiction has one of it's strengths, in that it can play out the fantasy of what we'd all like to say in a particular moment, whether it be cooler, crueler, whatever.

also, i personally enjoy that 'written dialogue'. the kind of stuff that is fun to read, that has a beat and rythm to it. a while back i had a conversation with someone about PULP FICTION, and they told me that they didn't like it because the dialogue wasn't like real people, that it was too stylised. but to me, that's what made the film.

and i love good dialogue :)

i like leonard's novels, and the way he uses dialogue in them. i haven't read many though. i like them, but they're in no way something i hang out for.

i'm hoping that they're going to read well together, but time will tell. i think i'm going to change the title of old men to 'gifts for friends' to match next weeks title. but we'll see.

when are they going to rescreen?

you going to that thing in the weekend?

cool. that's neat. welcome to the blog.

the only thing i can think of is the street conversation list. there's a primary link to all of them in the memories section. outside that, the blog is sort of a fluid, consume as you come and go thing. it's designed for public consumption, but it's also written with don't over think it early on blog mentality. from what i understand, some people like some entries, hate others, feel nothing, but come back cause of the difference. only the street conversation stuff is outside that, and hopefully i'll do another next year.

there's bits of my fiction online. if you go to www.shadowedrealms.com.au you'll find the most recent.

but i'm glad youlike it. is cool :)