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Staring down into the waters of steampunk
Jan. 31st, 2010 03:41 pmI haven't dived in yet, but the water looks fine.
My Skywatch outline has been returned to me, and I have been tweaking it for several days, mostly fixing the beginning and the end (I've noticed a trend). I'm not entirely sure about either of the scenes I added, so I'm going to set the outline aside for a few days and then come back, see if time lends perspective. Actually writing the book might be the best way to tell at this point. I'm (still) almost there.
( Writing that isn't steampunk )
Wandering back around to the subject of steampunk (I think this is my longest just-about-me post--some of the WindyCon posts might be longer, but I'm not sure), I've been reading and watching whatever I can get my hands on via libraries and netflix. Cherie Priest's book Boneshaker was very good, though it took me a week and a half to get through the first two hundred pages, I read the second in about two hours. Definitely a book worth sticking with. The Otomo anime Steamboy was also rollicking fun, and the background art is gorgeous. Reading the subtitles, watching the movie and oogling the background was kinda difficult at one in the morning, but worth the trouble.
I also found the '60s tv show The Wild, Wild West, which is black and white and ridiculous but pretty fun, too. I also had a geek-out moment in the very first episode, because I'd seen Sherlock Holmes (which is kinda steampunk-y) that day and there's a shot in the movie that's identical to a shot in the pilot, down to the design of the sleeve-gun.
My Skywatch outline has been returned to me, and I have been tweaking it for several days, mostly fixing the beginning and the end (I've noticed a trend). I'm not entirely sure about either of the scenes I added, so I'm going to set the outline aside for a few days and then come back, see if time lends perspective. Actually writing the book might be the best way to tell at this point. I'm (still) almost there.
( Writing that isn't steampunk )
Wandering back around to the subject of steampunk (I think this is my longest just-about-me post--some of the WindyCon posts might be longer, but I'm not sure), I've been reading and watching whatever I can get my hands on via libraries and netflix. Cherie Priest's book Boneshaker was very good, though it took me a week and a half to get through the first two hundred pages, I read the second in about two hours. Definitely a book worth sticking with. The Otomo anime Steamboy was also rollicking fun, and the background art is gorgeous. Reading the subtitles, watching the movie and oogling the background was kinda difficult at one in the morning, but worth the trouble.
I also found the '60s tv show The Wild, Wild West, which is black and white and ridiculous but pretty fun, too. I also had a geek-out moment in the very first episode, because I'd seen Sherlock Holmes (which is kinda steampunk-y) that day and there's a shot in the movie that's identical to a shot in the pilot, down to the design of the sleeve-gun.