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Five Things Make a Post
Feb. 6th, 2020 08:11 am. I wrote something! In fact I have now written several things, all thanks to the 3 Sentence Ficathon. They might be hard to find amongst all the action on the ficathon itself, so I've started copying them over to my AO3 archive.
. Auditions have happened for this year's musical, which is to be Hello Dolly!. Now we're waiting to find out what the results are. In the past few years, I've usually had a solid idea which role I'm going to get in the musical, because the club's pool of male talent for musicals is not large and most of the people in it have particular character types that they gravitate toward. In the case of Hello Dolly!, I don't know the show well enough to have a firm opinion, and the director said at the audition that she has me in mind for a couple of roles and was keeping her options open until she saw who else was available.
. I went to see Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi's new movie, and I'm glad I did; it's an experience I would not want to have missed.
(One of the reasons I considered not going is that I'm susceptible to getting ferocious second-hand embarrassment on behalf of fictional characters, so I'm always very cautious about comedies with the premise "protagonist talks to someone nobody else can see or hear"; I'm pleased to be able to report that Jojo Rabbit doesn't go in that direction and nothing in it set me off.)
. In the foreword to her most recent book, Lois McMaster Bujold talks a bit about her writing process. One thing she says that struck me, and gives me hope for my own writing, is that she starts by accumulating ideas and for a novel can have as many as fifty pages of notes before she knows enough about the story to begin writing the actual words.
. One of my relatives has acquired a new kitten named Ivy, who is adorable and very friendly. I forget whether she was always named after the comic book character Poison Ivy, or if that was something my relative decided retroactively upon acquisition, but in any case I find it an appropriate name because if I let her come and nuzzle me I itch for the rest of the day. Totally worth it.
. Auditions have happened for this year's musical, which is to be Hello Dolly!. Now we're waiting to find out what the results are. In the past few years, I've usually had a solid idea which role I'm going to get in the musical, because the club's pool of male talent for musicals is not large and most of the people in it have particular character types that they gravitate toward. In the case of Hello Dolly!, I don't know the show well enough to have a firm opinion, and the director said at the audition that she has me in mind for a couple of roles and was keeping her options open until she saw who else was available.
. I went to see Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi's new movie, and I'm glad I did; it's an experience I would not want to have missed.
(One of the reasons I considered not going is that I'm susceptible to getting ferocious second-hand embarrassment on behalf of fictional characters, so I'm always very cautious about comedies with the premise "protagonist talks to someone nobody else can see or hear"; I'm pleased to be able to report that Jojo Rabbit doesn't go in that direction and nothing in it set me off.)
. In the foreword to her most recent book, Lois McMaster Bujold talks a bit about her writing process. One thing she says that struck me, and gives me hope for my own writing, is that she starts by accumulating ideas and for a novel can have as many as fifty pages of notes before she knows enough about the story to begin writing the actual words.
. One of my relatives has acquired a new kitten named Ivy, who is adorable and very friendly. I forget whether she was always named after the comic book character Poison Ivy, or if that was something my relative decided retroactively upon acquisition, but in any case I find it an appropriate name because if I let her come and nuzzle me I itch for the rest of the day. Totally worth it.
