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I would like to know what others thought about the ending?? I thought it felt unfinished. what about Emily? or Did Spencer actually die at the end?? Anybody know the answers?? sorry if its a stupid question but I never played the other bc....
If Spencer died or not we don't know for sure. But he survived a similar fall a bit earlier in the game.
After the credits the morse code does hint at a sequel. But due to GRIN (company that made the game) now being out of business this seems unlikely. Unless someone else picks up the franchise. And that may go in another direction then the one suggested (Ressurecting Master-D, or Hitler as he was called in the Japanese version.)
And about Emily. I guess you didn't pay attention at the end of the game.
This game sucked and so did the ending. Of course this is my opinion, but they could left out how you can die falling in the water and running into radiation. Controls are tacky too. I'm not going to waste my time going thru on commando mode, but at least I found all those damn collectables.
Well, I personally thought the game was pretty decent; the challenges and being able to jump and swing around made this game better than it actually is.
I want a sequel ASAP though. But eh, doesn't seem like it's going to happen anytime soon :|
I wanna know who the frickin' sniper was, and who Silver is (was he Joe?), and what Albatross is.
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Schools of fish, fish in the hundreds, in the thousands – jacks, surgeonfish, batfish, snappers, basslets, barracudas, emperors, giant bumphead parrotfish, spanish mackerels, rainbow runners – they're all here…Indeed, on this, our second visit to these distant shores, the spectacular diving and marine life of Raja Ampat seem to us even more extraordinary than in the past.
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Since our first review of the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, we knew Intel was planning to introduce a lower-priced quad-core processor at some point in the first quarter of 2007. Turns out today is the day Intel has chosen to unveil the Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU, to coincide with the opening of CES 2007 in Las Vegas. As expected, the Q6600 is clocked at 2.4GHz and will carry a price tag of $851. Like Intel's other quad-core processors, the Q6600 is actually two Core 2 Duo chips situated together on a single LGA775 package. Unlike its QX6700 big brother, the Q6600 has a more reasonable 105W TDP rating.
To understand the prospects for quad-core performance, let me suggest reading a couple of our articles. My original review of the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 compared this quad-core processor's performance to a range of dual-core CPUs in a broad array of typical desktop apps. From this exercise, we learned that quad-cores benefits are rather limited, since even many multithreaded applications or tasks don't use more than two threads. I then turned my attention to more highly multithreaded applications in my Quad FX review, in which the QX6700 was prominently featured. There, we found that that quad-core processors do hold some promise, given the right software, and that Intel's quad-core offering is more attractive for power and performance than AMD's Quad FX.
Due to its relatively low clock speed, the Q6600 will perform similarly to a mid-range Core 2 Duo CPU in single- and dual-threaded apps. And, of course, it will offer somewhat lower performance than the QX6700 due its 266MHz lower clock frequency. Damage Labs is locked into GPU-testing mode right now, so we don't have any performance results for the Q6600 yet, but we'll see about rectifying that before too long.
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We are now inviting entries for the 16th annual London Adventure Play Awards. Six categories and some great prizes up for grabs.
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Play time brought traffic to a stand still as Thornhill Primary school shut off a section of Lofting Road in Barnsbury to give its pupils a play time to remember.
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Their task is to cycle across America; their mission is to help families of fallen soldiers.
U.S. Army Veteran Kevin Mincio and entrepreneur and philanthropist Matt Sauri are riding their bicycles across the U.S. Their journey will commemorate the upcoming ten year anniversary of 9-11, but their mission is to provide education and help for families of fallen soldiers.
"We are not only helping families by providing aid in the form of financial support, but also helping the families by making sure they know that we don't forget who they lost," said Mincio.
On Sunday the duo arrived in Pueblo, which marks the completion of the first leg of their journey or what they call Act I. By now, they've traveled 1,615 miles and climbed up 86,100 feet across four states: California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.
Mincio and Sauri's bike ride began 25 days ago. But their mission started in 2007, when Kevin lost his friend and fellow soldier SSG Jesse Williams who died while serving overseas in Iraq.
"I loved him to death. He laughed through the toughest times. He was an incredible soldier and he fought bravely right until he gave his life," said Mincio.
In honor of his memory, the bike trek began at SSG William's gravesite in Santa Rosa California, on what would have been his 30th birthday.
Both SSG Williams and Kevin Mincio served in the 5-20 Infantry Regiment, which has the motto of "Tant Que Je Puis" which means "To the Limit of Our Abilities." Kevin and Matt decided that was an appropriate theme for their ride in remembrance of those who gave it all for their country.
Before SSG William's went to Iraq, Mincio promised to provide for his daughter.
"We helped her and her future with her education, her trust fund, and after we got that all set up we felt that there were other families out there that didn't have those resources available to them and we wanted to set out to help as many of those families as we could," said Mincio.
Now with the Team Jesse Foundation, Mincio is doing the same thing for other families.
During the bike ride the duo is raising awareness and funds for families of the fallen. 100 percent of the donations they receive during the trip will directly benefit families by helping provide education and support.
"We are not only helping families by providing aid in the form of financial support, but also helping the families by making sure they know that we don't forget who they lost," added Mincio.
Matt Sauri says its an honor to ride side by side with Mincio. He calls him an American Hero.
"This is a guy who had achieved what many would consider the American dream. He was the Vice President of one of the largest investment banks in the world, Goldman Sachs. So he was there in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. When he watched those towers come down he decided to resign his position and enlisted in the Army so that he could be an infantryman and defend his country and fight for his country and what he believed in," said Sauri.
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Book review: Rogue agents, dangerous terrorists plague Mormon spy's upcoming wedding in 'Spy for a Spy'
"SPY FOR A SPY," by Jordan McCollum, Durham Crest Books, $15.95, 307 pages (f)
Talia's back to her secretive, spying ways in"Spy for Spy," Jordan McCollum's sequel to "I, Spy." While Talia tells her now fiancé that her job isn't usually dangerous, she finds herself in yet another life threatening mission, but this time the target is her ex-boyfriend.
Shuffling at the CIA has led to the exit of her partner and boss and the incoming replacements aren't exactly welcomed. Twenty-something Talia comes to face-to-face with Brand, the man who jaded her when she first joined the agency; they dated briefly but he left her emotionally scarred after toying with her feelings and throwing her under a bus at her new job.
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Those who think that Hamas and other Islamic groups do not have a strong presence in the West Bank are completely detached from reality. True, these groups are lacking in arms and ammunition in the West Bank, but they still enjoy broad public support among Palestinians.
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The Egyptians are finally learning that terrorism is a double-edged sword, and that those who approve of terror activities will one day find themselves targeted by the same terrorists.
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If Muslim fanatics cannot tolerate moderate and secular Muslims, why should they be expected to accept those who belong to other faiths?
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is now saying that he will resume his efforts in September to achieve, unilaterally, UN recognition of a Palestinian state. This time, however, Abbas says he will go to the General Assembly, where the Palestinians enjoy the support of more than 130 countries, with a request to recognize a Palestinian state as a non-member of the UN.
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By meeting separately with Khaled Mashaal and Mahmoud Abbas, Mursi has created the impression that the Palestinians have two legitimate leaders. Even more, Mursi has put Mashaal on an equal footing with heads of state, thus granting legitimacy not only to the Hamas leader, but to his entire movement.
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According to the Greek Orthodox Church in the Gaza Strip, at least five Christians have been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam in recent weeks. In a rare public protest, leaders and members of the 2,000-strong Christian community in the Gaza Strip staged a sit-in strike in the Gaza Strip this week to condemn the abductions and forced conversions in particular, and persecution at the hands of radical Muslims in general.
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In March last year, thousands of Palestinians, inspired by the "Arab Spring," launched their own protests in the West Bank to demand reforms, democracy, and regime change. But the Palestinian revolt was short-lived. Abbas's security forces, backed by Fatah thugs, attacked the young men and women who were protesting in the center of Ramallah, torching their tents and beating them with clubs and rifle butts.
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Today, most of the anti-regime demonstrations throughout the kingdom are being initiated and led by Muslim Brotherhood supporters whose goal is to turn Jordan into an Islamic republic. Many Arabs feel that President Barack Obama's endorsement of the Muslim Brotherhood has emboldened the Islamists and increased their appetite to drive moderate and secular rulers out of the Arab world.
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At a time when many Western governments, the World Bank, and various international organizations are continuing to heap praise on the Palestinian Authority for implementing reforms, the deputy speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Hasan Khreishah, announced that financial and administrative corruption was now more widespread than ever.
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The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate wants Palestinian journalists to serve as soldiers on behalf of the Palestinian cause. Journalists, according to the syndicate, should first and foremost be loyal to their president, prime minister, government, homeland, and cause. As for the truth, it appears at the bottom of the syndicate's list of priorities.
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If the Western journalists and donors continue to ignore the reality on the ground, the West Bank could soon fall into the hands of gangsters and armed clans, as has been the case in Jenin -- among the main reasons the Palestinian Authority collapsed in the Gaza Strip in 2007, speeding the rise of Hamas to power.
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I guess it's how you view wrong. IMO, suspending Ben for any amount of time would be dead wrong. Just because half the Steeler Nation seems to want to kick the man while he's down doesn't mean the organization should.Originally Posted by birtikidis
It's called making a statement to Ben and the team. It's called making a statement to the world about how the Steelers handle their business. Ben did wrong...make no mistake. There are ramifications for doing wrong. Acting like it was ok...will just make things worse.Originally Posted by Sugar
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Cha-ching! Nail on the head. But ANP...this is Shawn. Give him two weeks and he'll be back on the band wagon. [/quote]
I thought two weeks yet it only took 2 days.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11351&start=30[/quote:18b37nu5]Originally Posted by Dee Dub
OMG, Dee Dub and Shawn both admitting they could be wrong in the same thread!!
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Hey Shawn, since I was giving you shyt about your prior stance, it's only fair for me to give you some props for putting your hand in the air on this.
See, that's where you and I part ways. IMO, Ben did no "wrong" that anyone can show. You might not like that he was partying in a "college bar" or whatever, but that's not wrong. The only basis for thinking he did anything wrong was the word of a drunk sorority chick who couldn't get her story straight and won't stand by it. For the Steelers to pile on now would show a lack of character and class that is incosistent with the ethics of loyalty and the premise that a man is not guilty until that is proven- which it wasn't in this case.Originally Posted by Shawn
Even if we concede the whole "lack of judgment" thing, I still don't see that as a "wrong." Especially wrong where you would actually punish a guy for it. IMO, Ben is the one who has been abused here. Some girl just made an accusation against him that has probably diminished, if not ruined his reputation even though she couldn't get her story straight and wouldn't stand by it.Originally Posted by birtikidis
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(of beer) gone bad
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When a guy is fucking a black chick and blows a huge load from the back of her neck to her asscrack making her resemble a skunk.
I skunked this chick and then she waddled out of the room!
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Intentionally farting in an attempt to get someone away from you.
This annoying bitch wouldn't shut the fuck up, so I skunked in hopes that she couldn't tolerate my ass gas and would leave me the hell alone.
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Add butter to skillet and melt. Add garlic (I don't measure anything, but I think its about 1tbsp, just what ever looks right), salt, and pepper. Sautee until you can smell the garlic. Add the green beans and mushrooms. Toss to coat well with butter, cover and cook for about 12 minutes, stirring occasionaly, until the green beans are crisp-tender.
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1)When everybody thinks this situation is terrible, and riots and blood are on the streets, then BUY stocks. Athens included.2) The 5 years greek gov. bond's CDS rate went up since oct.2009 from 1.5% to 20%. But just made the biggest fall in the last couple of days. This is probably the first impulse for a gradual midterm decline. We might need 2 years for CDS rates to fell back to the longterm range of 1.5-3%.By that time NBG share price will be at $6-8 range.3) Since oct.2009 the Athens Stock Exchange index formed a classic falling wedge shape. It fell from 1500 to 500. Tech. analysis 101 tells us falling wedges recover min. to their starting point.4) Greek banks started the recovery faster then FTAES. Accordingly I expect NBG to recover faster than the index will.Summary: This is great time to buy NBG shares, and hold for 1.5-2 years timeframe.Dont miss it.Disclosure: I bought 60.000 NGB ADR-s, and plan to hold for 2 years.


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Story Drugs
Posted July 4, 2016on:
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I recently re-posted a story of mine on the http://www.fanfiction.net site, called 'When Ellie Found Out'. I had posted it before, as a prequel episode to the first season of my series called nine2five, which I had originally posted as a series of standalone episodes. When I decided to gather all the chapters in one place, I decided to append them to WEFO rather than create a new file, which I now think was a mistake. The funny thing is, that even though it's a reposted story, I'm still getting comments on it, from people who didn't see it before, or who just like to comment. Some of those comments take the form of, "This is so much better than what they did on the show", which is a comment I got fairly often.
What they did on the show (in this particular case) was separate the leads, i.e., take a romantically-involved pair and place them apart, either physically, emotionally, or both, so that their struggles to be reunited will fuel the story for as long as the storyteller can make it. (What I did in WEFO, which was prone to backstory and exposition, was tell about how they got married, so that no one would separate them.) As story-telling mechanisms go, separation of the leads has a lot to recommend it, otherwise they wouldn't use it so often as a short-cut to ramp up the intensity of the drama, which is where the problems arise.
Tropes like this one, or others like 'endangered children', or any of a number of forms of 'intolerant ideological fanaticism', are like story drugs, artificial stimulants that keep a story moving but without any real story in them. They are, in effect, pure drama, with no other story elements to speak of. What ends up happening is what you'd normally expect to happen when someone takes stimulants without food, the story keeps going and going until one day it keels over dead. I watched the first episode of season 2 of Glee and was immediately repulsed by the blatant self-sabotage of all the lead characters, which they would no doubt spend the rest of the season trying to repair. The last episode of season 1 of Newsroom did it for me, with all sorts of romantic partners making all sorts of wrong decisions. Tom Clancy used to use them a lot, but at least in his stories they weren't critical elements, so the stories didn't die from them.
They aren't always drugs, of course. If the separation of the leads or the endangerment of the child are built up to with proper character and story logic behind them, then they're perfectly fine mechanisms. In the canon fiction I was revising, the leads were separated very blatantly and artificially, and the show suffered almost immediately as a result. Many addicts of the first two seasons stopped watching halfway though the first episode of the third, as I did with Glee. Worse, when the showrunners realized how much they'd botched things, they went too far in the other direction, creating a full season of feel-good episodes to counter the previous season of angsty episodes, a heady dose of too-little-too-late, in my opinion. (I eventually separated them in my story as well, but only after a season and a half of development, first his and then hers, and a plot twist that made the separation logical, necessary, and most important, temporary.)
It's very important to be wary of tropes. They combine story-logic with storyteller logic, which is why they're useful, but they should never be used in such a way that the the telling of the story trumps the story itself (unless that's the point of the story, in which case have fun). In my opinion, authors should be invisible in their stories, while using a story drug to force it into a preferred path is as diametrically opposed to 'invisible' as it's possible for an author to be.
A Class Act
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It occurred to me a few days ago that perhaps the reason I was having such trouble with a synopsis for Ghostkiller wasn't because of me or the story, so much as the way I was thinking about the story, categorizing it. Determining a story's genre is basically figuring out which box you toss it into, so people who are looking for books of that type can go looking in that box. It's a time-saver for publishers, booksellers, and customers, but like all such things it runs the risk of dropping a lot of stories that don't fit in a box, or fit in more than one.
I think a lot of the advice I found on the web for writing query letters falls into this trap. A query for a genre novel is described very simply.as one hero with one goal and one antagonist. The goal for the hero is very clearly spelled out, etc. It's all pretty simplistic, which is probably why genre novels are considered a lesser variety of literature than a literary novel. There are other reasons, too, I guess. One of the arguments I heard against an important philosophical article in favor of abortion was that the author was using more and more farfetched hypothetical constructions to make her point. The further she got away from 'real life', the less merit her arguments had. A genre novel about werewolves is fun but can't tell us much about real life since there are no werewolves in real life.
Which isn't a mark against genre novels as a class but against poorly-written ones being taken as representative. There's no reason a single genre novel can't have monsters, chases, mysteries, and true love, except that the author is only aiming for one box at a time. (I had a reviewer of one of my stories refer to it as being a 2D writer, rather than a 3D writer.) I've read many genre novels with important insights to human concerns in them, made more available by the fantastic nature of the story, not less.
The issue, I think, is whether the novel is driven by characters or by some other element. A 'literary' novel is a story about people and their lives, no linear plot, no arch-enemies. This is not to say that a novel about characters can't have genre elements. Magical Realism seems to me to be that sort of story, but a little further along the spectrum you might find what I will call Realistic Magicism, where the genre component is larger, and independent of the lives of the people in the story, even though it is mainly explored through those characters. The more genre stories have the characters more subordinated to the genre elements. Some stories can have more than one genre.
Ghostkiller is not solely or even predominantly a genre novel, I think, and my mistake was in thinking it was. I thought it was some variety of paranormal, like Urban Supernatural, but now I think it's further along the spectrum than that. I write genre novels through the characters. Everything, the plot, the setting, even the action, is described and presented from the point of view of the character doing it or perceiving it. If you see me, I did it wrong. As a result my stories are complicated, with lots of people each doing their own things at the same time, none of whom necessarily know why. The 'plot' is usually all of them reacting to some unseen not-necessarily-natural force, which they may know nothing about at any point and are certainly not moving intentionally to counter. The 'Big Bad' of St. Martin's Moon was lycanthropy itself, but no one was trying to defeat that.
The standard methods for summarizing this type of story don't apply, or maybe I wasn't clever enough to see how to apply them. I couldn't see how to render it through the lens of a single actor, whose intentions are so limited. Unfortunately, I also had a great deal of trouble finding any examples or instructions in how to write a query for a more literary type of novel. If I had, perhaps I would have come to this conclusion much sooner. I have a new synopsis done, which took far less time and effort than any of the aborted efforts I have for the older view of the story. Every paragraph begins with 'they'. The story is presented not as a sequence of plot elements but as two lives and how the events of the book will change them.
Which is what the book is about.
That about covers it
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It should come as no surprise to anyone that I haven't yet managed to come up with a decent synopsis for Ghostkiller. I haven't come up with one for Unbinding the Stone either, and I wrote that 13 years ago. I was fortunate enough to receive a very nice review comment from no less than Tanya Huff, in which she described Stone as being 'remarkably complex and often very funny'. The complexity wasn't intentional then, and isn't now. It's just a function of how I write.
What should come as a surprise is that I've actually been considering self-publishing Ghostkiller, a prospect that fills me with very little pleasure. One thing that did give me some amount of pleasure was the act of designing the cover art for it, and even some of my other unpublished stories.
A friend of mine at my job, before she moved on to a new company, told me about a graphics program called GIMP, which I promptly downloaded and found very confusing. But I wanted to create a cover for my Chuck fanfic called 'Nine2five', so I pushed on, using trial-and-error to make the damn thing do what I wanted. I don't think I did anything right, but still I managed to come up with this image, which has been the cover art for all three seasons of the story (over 600K words, equivalent to seven novels, written over four years). I really should have separate images for each, but I forgot how I did it, and trying to recreate this image was a daunting task. I might try it again, now.
The idea for the Ghostkiller cover was pretty nebulous at first. I remember years ago talking to my publisher about it, when the story was little more than the first chapter. Ghostkiller is a story of more than a little strangeness and complexity, one of the reasons I'll have to self-publish if I ever want it to be published. (Most publishers, most 'entertainment industry' types in general, especially the big ones, shy away from words like 'complex', and anything that hasn't been tried and tested.) It started out as a story about 'a man who kills ghosts for a living', but it didn't stay that way for long. The technique for killing ghosts was the focus of that first chapter, since ghostkilling was a unique idea, as psychic talents go. I had to show it in action, which involved swords and coffins. (Really the thing in the coffin.) My original idea for the cover was very complicated, and unworkable, at least by me. It also wouldn't have been especially eye-catching, and that's what covers are supposed to be, right?
Undermind is a short story I wrote a long time ago, for a contest. The idea was to write a story of a certain length that employed a specified phrase in some way. The first time I entered the contest it was for the phrase 'hard port'. I used it five different ways, but didn't win. (The story was eventually released as 'Boys Will Be Boys', which I have just discovered is no longer available. Something else to think about releasing on my own.) This time around the phrase was 'dark glass', which gave me lots of ideas, most of which I'm still trying to write. In this case the dark glass was a mirror, to reveal one's inner and darker nature. My problem with the cover is simply that mirrors as cover images are pretty trite. The story is much more original than that, but the originality isn't really visually striking, so I swallowed my pride to come up with something that was.
Hopefully I can use these. There's more to the game of cover art design than simply making interesting images, which is one of the things that makes me reluctant to jump into the self-publishing biz. This is the way I'd go if I had to do it all over again, so I have that at least. I find myself wondering if creating a cover first would help clarify the story, or make it harder to develop.
Free at last
Posted January 2, 2016on:
At one point FanFiction.net had a button on their pages, so a person could share a story link on WordPress, which made it very easy for me to talk about the chapters of my fanfiction stories as I was writing them. Unfortunately they lost the button at some point. I've still been writing, I can't really stop, but when a story dominates my mind I have a hard time doing something else in addition, like make blog posts. I did just two posts last year, and I still see people hitting my blog at some ridiculously low rate.
Hopefully that will change this year, as I have just yesterday written the last chapter of the last episode in my fanfiction epic 'Nine2five'. I started it in April of 2012, just a few months after my favorite show, Chuck, had aired its series finale, a very unsatisfactory finale. It prompted me to write a story to fix it. This led me to think of another story idea, somewhat more experimental in nature, but that's one of the things fanfiction is good for.
While I was writing that, it occurred to me to write a story about a season of Chuck that I saw great value in, but most others did not, season 3 (S3). Chuck started out simple, about a nobody who got stuck with a computer database in his head and gets sucked into the world of international espionage, It quickly grew more complicated, with a strong romantic comedy element taking over from the spy drama. In S1 and S2 they maintained a decent balance. At the end of S2 they seemed to be firmly in the romcom camp, but S3 starts with them firmly in the spy-drama camp. Needless to say the fans were unhappy, and the show never recovered that balance.
I decided to rewrite S3. 19 episodes, broken into 4 chapters each. Not the story I saw underneath the plot (which was a darkly dramatic tale of betrayal and the recovery of trust), but the plot itself, written to mesh better in tone with the first two seasons (a humorous mix of adventure and romance), but do the same things, i.e., follow the same major plot points and come out at more-or-less the same place. And I did, although it came out to 80 chapters for various reasons. Then I decided to move on to S4, and then S5, in addition to making a prequel episode for the first one. In some ways this was a mistake, S4 is by far the weakest and most poorly written season of Chuck, while S5 is stronger plot-wise, but utterly devoid of humor or charm. I really ruined the latter half of the show for myself. Fortunately I've got my own version to take its place.
And now I'm done at last, with the last chapter written. I still have to post them on FF.net, but that's easy enough, and doesn't involve any more writing. All told I think this series will come out at over 600K words, or approximately 7 novels. (If I revised the first several chapters to have the amount of narrative the later chapters do, it'd be even bigger. I originally thought of it more as a script, with dialog and action, but not much scene-setting. As the story went on this didn't work so well.)
This means I can spend a bit more time blogging, as well as working on my other stories, which have been hanging fire for years now. I met Tamora Pierce at Confluence years back, and she was very interested in one of them, which I came up with for their writing contest, so I'll probably start with that one.
No comparison
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One of the things agents and editors look for in a query letter is a comp title (I think I talked about this before, but if I haven't, it isn't too hard to find many blogs that have). This is supposed to be a title of a book of reasonably recent vintage, which is cited as an example to a) give the agent/editor in question a good idea of the type of book that they'll soon be flogging on your behalf, and b) some idea of the marketability of your work. Claiming that 'anyone who likes Twilight will love this' may not work as well as it once did, but at least it gets the point across.
A third use is to show that you the author have kept current with the market yourself, that you know what books are or aren't like yours, and most important, how they're not. This third point doesn't work so well for me, since my immediate reflex would be to change anything I'd written that was like some other story I'd just read, and make it so it wasn't like that book at all. Great for those originality points, not so great for corporate metrics.
Plus, if you come along with your query letter and say 'there's no book like mine anywhere, ever', the odds are they won't believe you. They may even whip off a few names right off the top of their heads, and you look like a jerk. Unless of course there is no book like yours, because, like me, you go out of your way to make your books unlike every book you've ever read. I don't claim to have read every book, though, so some other genius may have done what I did. Good for him (or her, but my default pronoun is male).
My real question, though, after all this backstory, is why does the comp title have to be a book? We do sort of live in a multimedia world now, and sooner or later books will come with embedded music videos, or some such, to set the right tone when you reach that steamy love scene or exciting chase sequence. It also broadens the pool of prospective titles, to be able to say that anyone who loved Animal House will love your book. Third, it seems to have bypassed my filter against writing stories I've already read, since I didn't actually read it.
After many months of not thinking about it, focusing on my fanfiction, wallowing in despair over my poor, utterly original story, I suddenly had an idea for a synopsis pop into my head this morning. I wrote it down, talked about it with the fam, and realized along the way that the perfect comp title was not a book but a movie, Van Helsing, in point of fact. Which, while not a great movie, is to my mind a lot of fun, and has a number of points (on a high level, where it's hard to avoid having commonalities) in common with my novel, which may be why I like it so much.
And if there are any books that read like Van Helsing feels, I hope you'll mention it in the comments, so I can check it out for myself.
Plotting Stupid
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So I discovered Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.was available on Netflix a few days ago (the movie-TV business would go broke if it depended on me, I don't rush to see anything on day one, that's for idiots with a lot more willingness to part with their money than I have), and being a fan of the Superhero Genre I decided to see if it was as good as I hoped. For the most part it was. Since I'd just gotten The Winter Soldier recently, I even had the context for everything that happened (I saw Jasper Sitwell and knew what was coming). It's a pretty clever idea, filling in the gaps between movies with a TV series that follows a representative group of lesser characters. We can't all be superheroes, but we could be ordinary agents, just trying to do our jobs.
I wasn't even very happy with the introduction of superpowers into this context, until it became clear that these abilities were technologically developed and highly experimental. Hopefully they'll go into greater detail about how these specific individuals were chosen. The guy with the fire powers I can understand, but most of the other Centipede subjects seemed like regular guys.
The dialog and characters were spot-on, of course, what with the series being created and overseen by a comic-book geek. I liked Buffy and Angel, and I loved Dr. Horrible. It wasn't perfect, of course, TV scripts don't seem able to avoid falling into a pit of tropes anymore. They're a good shorthand (Chuck season 3 only makes sense if you view it in terms of the tropes underneath the plot), but they also make the story predictable, and need excellent characters and actors to make them seem anything other than lazy writer collecting a paycheck. Fortunately one of the more blatant instances of this, Fitz' reluctance to tell Simmons he loves her until staring death in the face, is offset by a much better counter-trope, with two major characters not going the wt/wt route at all, even though the guy was tagged as the lady's SO, a bit of a joke since it means something totally different.
So I consider it terribly unfortunate that the main plot for the series, the basis for the first two-thirds of the series which culminates in the events of Winter Soldier, is so sloppily done. Only the idea that they live in a world with super-powered people makes it even remotely plausible, but even then it violates the principle of Occam's Razor and should never have worked. The main villain of the first part is called the Clairvoyant, a person who predicts the actions of everyone in the scene with startling accuracy. The Agents spend a great deal of time looking over their lists of gifted individuals, trying to determine who it could be.
Except that no security force would ever do that. If I was a policeman and someone called me, claiming to be a psychic who could predict a crime, the first thing I would suspect is that the 'psychic' committed the crime. The first thing Coulson should have suspected when he heard about this Clairvoyant is that there was a mole inside SHIELD, but that would have given the story away far too soon, and prevented the sudden explosion of HYDRA, so they had to be stupid on purpose, which is a terrible way to write a show.
In a slightly different form of deliberate stupidity, this so-brilliant mastermind, when the time comes for him to be found out, is betrayed by the most inane bit of stupid characterization in Trope-land. In trying to cast doubt on some other agent, he lets slip a detail which didn't happen to be in Coulson's report, and the jig is up. Not a large flaw, in the scheme of things, and it gets him captured, which means he gets sent to the Fridge by someone else's order, which was what he wanted, so perhaps he did it on purpose. As a piece of surface-level stupidity it's inexcusable that a guy who has never yet made a mistake should make such a blatant one. As a piece of double-duplicity I can see otherwise intelligent agents falling for it, given the chaos they were in at the time, but again it's deliberately arranged stupidity. I would much rather the Clairvoyant got caught because of Coulson being smart, than because circumstances made him temporarily stupid.
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The usual method of deduction we see in the mysteries proceeds from a given state of affairs, from which the detective deduces the actions that have resulted in that state. The carpet reveals a circle crushed into the material, from which he deduces a man standing there, moving his foot in a circular motion. He's got a dead guy to explain, after all, and people to question about what they were doing at the time. Unless it's a show like Pushing Daisies, where they usually start by questioning the dead guy.
A story, like a computer programs, can be represented as a series of transitions from one state to another. The detective looks at the state and deduces the previous transition (or series of states and transitions). This is not the only way to use this series, though. One can also look at the transitions (the actions of the characters), and deduce the states that caused them. Which is sort of what I do as a Production Support specialist. I look at the behavior of the program and deduce the initial state that created it.
This works because computers are logic boxes, with nicely determined behaviors. Well, the behaviors that the programmer thought about were nicely determined. It's usually in the incomplete specification of the behavior, the intersection of behaviors, the addition of new code, or the creation of new inputs, that we find our problems. Or the failure of any of these when they're expected to occur. I like to read the code backwards to see where the tangle (the unanticipated state) could occur.
Characters are less straightforward than that, but still I prefer to treat my characters as rational beings possessing an internal logic which drives their actions. For the most part. Pure Vulcans are dull people. Completely random actors technically aren't actors at all. I'm not nearly as interested in the werewolf as I am in the guy who becomes the werewolf. How does he deal with his curse? Once the curse strikes he's just a ten-ton death machine, ho-hum, but before that he's a guy scrambling to minimize (or maximize, if he's not a nice person) the fallout, or get it lifted, or something. Far more interesting.
To me, the most creative moments in the writing of a novel are not the actions but the states. States aren't really of interest to me, except as they provide a springboard to action. Read my stories (please) and you will find very little extraneous detail about the environment in which the characters live and move. I'm not nearly so interested in the stand of oak over there minding its own business as I am in the piece of earth on to which Joe is about to step, and even more why he's about to step there, and where his further steps will take him. Spinning out the logic of Joe's actions is child's play. Inventing the world he acts in, not so much.
In A Warrior Made, I remember being stuck in the middle of the book, because I'd written myself into a place where the characters were walking down the road from one place to another. Boring, and already done by lots of other people. I was there for quite some time before I had a sudden flash of inspiration, a state that caused all my characters to go off in wildly divergent directions. The rest of the book was told as a set of intertwining adventures as each set of characters followed their own path until it all came together somehow at the end. St. Martin's Moon took that idea a step further. Five divergent and unrelated plot threads, that intersected to resolve a situation that none of the actors even knew existed.
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Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown will contain a full overhaul of Virtua Fighter 5's mechanics, balance and animations, along with new game modes, new dynamic fighting arenas, a massive collection of customisable character items and two all-new characters added to the roster.
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdow was officially released in Japanese arcades on July 29, 2010. Version A of Final Showdown was released on April 20, 2011 at the Japanese arcades. It was announced at Gamescom 2011 that Final Showdown would be coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in Summer 2012, complete with online play for both platforms. The game will be released in downloadable format.


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Private equity firm buys Minnesota Rubber & Plastics
MINNEAPOLIS (Sept. 17, 7 p.m. ET) — Quadion Corp., dba Minnesota Rubber & Plastics, is now part of local investment firm Norwest Equity Partners' portfolio. Norwest purchased the Minneapolis-based company from the Carlson family, which actually started MR&P as a rubber seal and gasket company.
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