What did you blog about today?

[AnRoinnUltra]

Posted one of the workshop exercises, and let on it was a early draft of The Matrix Resurrections that was found stapled to the back of a goat near the Bricklieve mountains:
The Matrix Resurrections -rare first draft

 

[Dan Jones]

Now if you'd have said that was a rare first draft of Matrix Revolutions you might have caught me out.

In fact I think it's a darn sight better than Revolutions...

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

Revolutions was a strange one, I ended up rooting for the machines

 

[Juliana]

On the blog: a bit of introspection on why it might not be a bad thing to occasionally hit pause on creativity.

Beneath the Surface

 

[HareBrain]

@Juliana , here's a low tide this afternoon where something creative looks like it's brewing up!

 

[Juliana]

here's a low tide this afternoon where something creative looks like it's brewing up!

Ooh, lovely photo!!!

 

[thaddeus6th]

I'd never seen Blake's 7 before. As it happens, I was missing out.

Review: Series 1 of Blake’s 7

Yes, finger on the pulse as always, reviewing a sci-fi series from the late 1970s. It was the heyday of British sci-fi, when special effects...

thaddeusthesixth.blogspot.com

 

[Bren G]

A review of the recently released film Dune (2021) - Why I only want to go through this desert once.

I think I am in the minority judging how great this film is rated.

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

A review of the recently released film Dune (2021) - Why I only want to go through this desert once.

I think I am in the minority judging how great this film is rated.

Did you like the book though? I've bought it three times I reckon -most recently last January, and I just can't relate to the characters. It is definitely good stuff judging by the amount of people that like it, which is why I go back ..but sometimes a story is just not for everyone (if ya liked the book, forget what I've just written).

 

[Dan Jones]

I posted the final two chapters of my modern/ancient Greek mythology adventure story The Gigantomachy Of Antonios Costas - @The Big Peat @Juliana I'll also sticky the whole novella to the top of the blog in the next day or two when I get a free ten minutes.

 

[AE35Unit]

Well at least if you watch the film it saves wading through the book

 

[AlexH]

A review of the recently released film Dune (2021) - Why I only want to go through this desert once.

I think I am in the minority judging how great this film is rated.

I agree with you. 5/10 for me. Despite not enjoying the opener, I'm glad there will be a sequel and hope it makes more sense.

 

[Dan Jones]

Long Read: Service With A Smile in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara And The Sun

Tagging @Vertigo as he had a couple of comments on this book recently in the book discussion.

 

[Vertigo]

Long Read: Service With A Smile in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara And The Sun

Tagging @Vertigo as he had a couple of comments on this book recently in the book discussion.

I've not read the whole thing as I felt it was getting a little too detailed for reading before the book which is still on my wish list. I shan't be running out of books to read in the foreseeable future!

 

[Dan Jones]

Ah right, sorry. Yes I do write blog posts with full spoilers, it's true. I should add a banner or something...

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

I posted the final two chapters of my modern/ancient Greek mythology adventure story The Gigantomachy Of Antonios Costas - @The Big Peat @Juliana I'll also sticky the whole novella to the top of the blog in the next day or two when I get a free ten minutes.

Fair play -I'm not sure what Noir means in reference to the link below, but it may be something of interest (if ya can smush a novella into their specifications):
Down Below: A Greek Myth Noir Anthology - Coming 2022 - Limit Break Comics

 

[Bren G]

Did you like the book though? I've bought it three times I reckon -most recently last January, and I just can't relate to the characters. It is definitely good stuff judging by the amount of people that like it, which is why I go back ..but sometimes a story is just not for everyone (if ya liked the book, forget what I've just written).

My memory of the book was that I struggled through it and came out the end of it much like you would a marathon. Not terribly enjoyable but there's a sense of accomplishment and somewhat of a payoff from all that perseverance. I read it so long ago that maybe I should try again. But to me at least, I couldn't relate to the characters in the film either.

 

[Bren G]

I agree with you. 5/10 for me. Despite not enjoying the opener, I'm glad there will be a sequel and hope it makes more sense.

I'm with you all the way. 5/10 is exactly what I was thinking. I suspect we will see the ratings start to drop once the pent up demand recedes a bit, but then again, what the heck do I know??

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

My memory of the book was that I struggled through it and came out the end of it much like you would a marathon. Not terribly enjoyable but there's a sense of accomplishment and somewhat of a payoff from all that perseverance. I read it so long ago that maybe I should try again. But to me at least, I couldn't relate to the characters in the film either.

I haven't given up on it yet -reading my post back it seems daft to expect to relate to extraterrestrial shenanigans but I suppose that's the core of storytelling; gonna take a leaf from your book and persevere, again

 

[Bren G]

Posted one of the workshop exercises, and let on it was a early draft of The Matrix Resurrections that was found stapled to the back of a goat near the Bricklieve mountains:
The Matrix Resurrections -rare first draft

I thought I knew where this was going, but truthfully, I never saw Harvey coming. Nice! Makes for a good story line and perhaps some Tarantino type dialogue! "You shoot me in a dream - you better wake up and apologize!"