28 February 2008
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- Lori A. Basiewicz
- Lori Basiewicz has been sequestered in an undisclosed location in the United States’ Heartland. Her friends and fellow writers say it is for her own good and that they will release her when she finally finishes her Master’s thesis, succeeds in marketing her first novel, and completes the first draft of her second novel. In other words, she’s never getting out. Lori periodically escapes protective custody in order to practice aikido. This blog is, quite possibly, her only contact with the outside world.
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Off the top of my head, it's when I'm reading a story (usually by a kid, or someone just starting out) and you can see them, in the text, doing cinematic things. you can see them zooming in on their characters, having special effects, having "wide" shots, and so on. And you can tell that they are writing from a strong movie background. And so, while they're writing, they are basically trying to write a movie, if you see what I mean. Complete with pan & scan.
Like when they don't realize movies and books are different, so they're writing a fight scene with intimate detail and choreography.
"He ducked to the left, the shot barely missing his ear as he rolled on his shoulder, then came up and fired twice before ducking behind the big wooden crate."
I can always hear a dance instructor's voice in my head when I read stuff like that: One two three, dip turn three, step two three, twirl two three.
I'll agree with both of those. It's along the lines of what I was thinking.
Verification Word: Faurg - What a pirate says when there is fog.
We shouldn't make fun of pirate speech impediments, Tori. It isn't nice. Also, they have swords and transmittable diseases. Have a heart...!
Sorry, Pete. Such a bad, bad person, I am.
:-P
*stops derailing now*
Transmittable diseases? Do pirates send you those by Arr-adio?
I have to take the pictures in my head, and make a book out of them that is readable. It doesn't seem to be working. Maybe I should just give up and try screen writing. :P
It sounds like you guys see writing cinematically as a negative?
When is "Talk like a pirate" day anyway?
I don't think it's necessarily bad all the time. It has it's time and place, though I probably cannot tell when and where unless I see it.
I have no idea what writing cinematically means. But that paragraph by Muse was excellent. I love writing like that. If that's what cinematically means, then that's what I love. Reminds me of Mickey Spillane, one of the biggest best selling authors of the 20th Century.
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