So this weekend I reached the end of the first stage draft with Ishtar. A bit over 15,000 words. It’ll fatten out to 20,000 with draft 2. I don’t enjoy the first draft stage much. It’s all brain fart meets road map and making sure correct foundation undergarments are in place. Too skeletal for my liking but maybe that’s just the way I do things. My first big decision of the afternoon was which tense? I don’t worry about such matters first time round, it’s more about capturing the essence of the moments.
Why did nobody tell me there was a 2005 remake of The Quatermass Experiment??? Argh! I’m going to have to wait ages for it to get here from Amazon UK…
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Sadly, it sucks. he he he
nooooo!!! how can it suck?
(hmmm… starts thinking maybe there’s a good reason she hasn’t heard about this show before)
It’s Quatermass, it’s got David Tennant in a lab coat, and it was broadcast live. How did they manage to make it boring?!
I friggin’ loathe first draft. It is hell. Afer that it’s fun. And most importantly, go you! Well done! That’s worth a present to yourself of something truly kitsch, surely.
The biggest present I’ve had lately was when my boss declared I don’t have to go back to working 4 days a week. 3 days is my perfect lifestyle. Enough time to write, enough $$ to get by on.
I tried to tell people – http://threemonkeys.livejournal.com/88825.html – I wasn’t much impressed though.
D’oh! I read your blog but somehow managed to miss that post. I adore the old Quatermass movies. 5 Million years to Earth is the best, followed by the Quatermass conclusion. Nigel Kneale remains one of my favourite all time writers.
In fairness, it was some time ago – you may not have been on lj at that time.
sometimes if I’m away for a few days I don’t catch up with all the backlog reading
Do you have the recent DVD set of the first three serials? It’s *gorgeous* — I could barely watch the surviving episodes of the original Quatermass Experiment the first time I tried on video, but this set has them incredibly restored. And bits of Quatermass II are *still* terrifying…
Our DVDs are not recent… I’ll look into it. I’d love a fully restored version.