I am completely against Tweetstorms. Not because it’s difficult to present and parse for readers. But rather because it‘ll more often than not fail to convey whatever you, as a writer, are trying to convey. And a big possibility to get presented out of context.
So please blog.
I literally shouted “This is f*^&>$! awesome!” during a chase sequence in Baby Driver. I haven’t had this much fun watching a movie in a long long time. The music, the plot, the treatment, the cinematography, the performances. Everything’s absolutely brilliant.
@manton I find the character ‘&’ eats up 5 characters instead of just one in iOS app — think it’s the HTML code that’s being counted? (reposting from slack).
“Deep Impact” is an intriguing watch. It’d a story to tell in a genre. But it just didn’t seem to belong to that genre. As if the makers were caught up in two minds — which part of story to convey. Drama’s too thin, too contrived. And not enough tension for a sci-fi disaster.
Ezra Klein interviewed Mark Zuckerberg recently and fascinating to hear him evade (though clearly well prepared) the mess he finds himself and FB in. Especially interesting is his constant reference to FB user as “our community” and Apple as “rich” company that charges more.
I consider every visit to a barber as one where I assign a project to a sculptor. My only instruction to him is to make sure not to chisel away everything and what remains should be something he can proudly claim as his finest work.
I do not think they get it every time.
I have finished reading another fiction - review in progress. And I realise it is first time since long when I do not have another book waiting in the queue. So, this gives me a chance to try something different.
Any recommendations, not from mystery/thriller, humour fiction?
You tend to remember the things that went wrong, that were not easy to carry out the first time around. With experience, such failures, such roadblocks tend to grow on you, and mar one’s productivity, one’s creativity.
Experience can make you believe that nothing is easy.
My daughter servers me a dish of Play-Doh breakfast every now and then. Got served some colourful animal cookies today.
A great article on a recent event in cricket →
For all the ball-tampering madness, we can also see a team both out of touch and out of favour, and a vice-captain a million miles away from understanding what the game of cricket truly means to millions of people around the world.