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lagilmanOption material is away to mine editor at Luna, who will in turn take it higher up the chain, and they will come back, eventually, and tell me if I get to eat for the next year, or if I'll have to go on a very extreme unemployed diet.
As Bear would say: La.
Meanwhile, having decided (under the influence of too much Michael Chabon, methinks) to throw common sense to the wind and let "Paris 24" (not its final title) go as damned litfic-esque as it wants. After deciding this, I also realized how the damn thing is supposed to end, which surprised me a great deal and will hopefully surprise you, too. Remember that thing I say, about trusting your instincts and letting skill pave the road to where the story needs to go? Yeah. I forget too, sometimes. And then I remember, and things get better. Or at least less head-against-wall-worthy.
And yes, have been reading Chabon, specifically GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD, or, as he calls it in his afterword, "Jews with Swords." Two parts Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, one part Dumas, and totally impractical and impossible and probably doesn't work at all except that it does.
Genius and humor get away with shit we mere mortals dare not try. It does give one the courage to try and fail, though.
Oh. And Leverage squee. I was so exhausted last night I don't think I gave it my all, but what I was able to take in was most excellent -- -- Nate backstory at the same time we see how easily he tips over the edge (and the team watches him do it, and nobody says anything and nobody stops him). The con held together, and the fact that it was basically dealt with in the first half hour and then Nate pushed them on to a larger score... nice. Anyone else thinking as they delayed that final bet that he was going to blow it, and then they'd spend the last half-hour playing fixit? Well-played again, writers.
I did call it that the guys in the back room were cops. I had thought maybe they were playing a headfake on us with the booze -- you can color and scent water easily enough -- but even if the owner's daughter knew he was a drunk (he never drinks any more, if she's that close to him she would have noticed) her head wasn't exactly in workspace. So now we get to deal with him trying -- or not trying -- to crawl back to sobriety, and the team working around it. Any takers that's what brings Sophie back?
(I admit, I will miss our Cool Blonde. Jeri's done an excellent job as Tara, and I like the unwilling yet equally amused respect growing between her and Nate. He needs someone who can meet him on equal grounds, rather than someone he had a previous good/bad relationship with. And the slip about her past... both a sign that she's becoming a little too comfortable with the team, and that maybe she's not all that far removed from where nate once stood on the Ground of the Righteous? [or at least legitimate]?)
Last word for now: Parker with that safe, FTW.
And yes, I watched Criminal Minds, too, but Bear already did a better wrap-up than I could. Just go and comment there.
As Bear would say: La.
Meanwhile, having decided (under the influence of too much Michael Chabon, methinks) to throw common sense to the wind and let "Paris 24" (not its final title) go as damned litfic-esque as it wants. After deciding this, I also realized how the damn thing is supposed to end, which surprised me a great deal and will hopefully surprise you, too. Remember that thing I say, about trusting your instincts and letting skill pave the road to where the story needs to go? Yeah. I forget too, sometimes. And then I remember, and things get better. Or at least less head-against-wall-worthy.
And yes, have been reading Chabon, specifically GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD, or, as he calls it in his afterword, "Jews with Swords." Two parts Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, one part Dumas, and totally impractical and impossible and probably doesn't work at all except that it does.
Genius and humor get away with shit we mere mortals dare not try. It does give one the courage to try and fail, though.
Oh. And Leverage squee. I was so exhausted last night I don't think I gave it my all, but what I was able to take in was most excellent -- -- Nate backstory at the same time we see how easily he tips over the edge (and the team watches him do it, and nobody says anything and nobody stops him). The con held together, and the fact that it was basically dealt with in the first half hour and then Nate pushed them on to a larger score... nice. Anyone else thinking as they delayed that final bet that he was going to blow it, and then they'd spend the last half-hour playing fixit? Well-played again, writers.
I did call it that the guys in the back room were cops. I had thought maybe they were playing a headfake on us with the booze -- you can color and scent water easily enough -- but even if the owner's daughter knew he was a drunk (he never drinks any more, if she's that close to him she would have noticed) her head wasn't exactly in workspace. So now we get to deal with him trying -- or not trying -- to crawl back to sobriety, and the team working around it. Any takers that's what brings Sophie back?
(I admit, I will miss our Cool Blonde. Jeri's done an excellent job as Tara, and I like the unwilling yet equally amused respect growing between her and Nate. He needs someone who can meet him on equal grounds, rather than someone he had a previous good/bad relationship with. And the slip about her past... both a sign that she's becoming a little too comfortable with the team, and that maybe she's not all that far removed from where nate once stood on the Ground of the Righteous? [or at least legitimate]?)
Last word for now: Parker with that safe, FTW.
And yes, I watched Criminal Minds, too, but Bear already did a better wrap-up than I could. Just go and comment there.
