Turning the pages
Jun. 30th, 2004 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI got to read the first seventy pages of Neil Gaiman's Stardust in Barnes & Noble today, and will be going to the library tomorrow to get a copy and finish it. (I can't conscience paying $13 for a mass market paperback, I just can't, not even for Gaiman.) Dunno how this one slipped under my radar for so long, but it did. What was interesting was that I was immediately thinking of how this could be turned into a movie. I had a whole little invisible production company working on it in my head--costumes, locations, little twinkly lights all over the fair, camera angles, special filters on the camera lenses, you name it. I had to restrain myself from writing script notations in the margins. I suppose this bodes well for next semester's screenwriting class...which, BTW, I am officially in. Matz said we all got into our first choice classes at Exeter. Woot! So first semester I get death, tragedy, and Shakespeare, as well as the screenwriting, and second semester is satire and comedy/romantic comedy on film. Fab.
And now I'm finally making some headway on A Clash of Kings, after a long, long time. I have no attention span anymore. A combination of school and the internet have destroyed any ability to read long novels in long stretches that I ever had as a child. Now I'm lucky if I can get thirty pages at the same time before I go haring off somewhere else--check my e-mail, check my friendslist, play with the dogs, harrass the cat... Blarg.
And now I'm finally making some headway on A Clash of Kings, after a long, long time. I have no attention span anymore. A combination of school and the internet have destroyed any ability to read long novels in long stretches that I ever had as a child. Now I'm lucky if I can get thirty pages at the same time before I go haring off somewhere else--check my e-mail, check my friendslist, play with the dogs, harrass the cat... Blarg.
