A little of what happened in January
Feb. 4th, 2012 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alicia_hDoes anyone know where January went? Perhaps it was spending about three weeks reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse that has left me feeling a little lost now I've come to the end of it. I was tempted to start another one of her novels after I finished To the Lighthouse, after all the library in town has a load of them and I have my own copy of Mrs Dalloway lurking around somewhere. My other thought was buying Virginia Woolf's diaries after reading bits of them in Waterstones. If I found that book in the library I'd have it out in a heartbeat but the second it's on a shelf in a bookshop and I have to spend money on it, I am forced to gloomily remind myself that I have too many books to read and not enough money to spend on more. It might be worth asking for it as a birthday present in the future and no doubt October will sneak up far too fast for my liking.
January did last long enough for me to form a bit of a Sherlock obsession that currently has me writing a story with the Mark Gatiss version of Mycroft Holmes after his brother's apparent death. I'm also reading through the original stories, some of which I've read before, some I haven't and a great many that I can remember listening to in the form of the Bert Coules adaptations with Clive Merrison and Michael Williams as Holmes and Watson. I mustn't forget the stories I've watched with Jeremy Brett as Holmes. It's amazing how many years the characters of Holmes, Watson, Mycroft, Mrs Hudson and Inspector Lestrade have been in my life in their many incarnations. I know that another Arthur Conan Doyle tale came into my life even earlier that Sherlock Holmes because I remember listening to a tape with The Lost World back around the same time I had tapes with stories such as Peter Pan and a telling of the Pandora myth.
With my head being so full of Holmes there are a few films I am very tempted to get, which are
The Seven Percent Solution (with Nicol Williamson as Holmes and Charles Gray as Mycroft, who he also played in the Jeremy Brett version), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (which Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have mentioned as a big inspiration) and Without a Clue.
I do have a couple of DVDs to keep me occupied for the meantime, one of which has 5 episodes with Ronald Howard as Holmes from a 1950s TV series and the other is a Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce film, The Woman in Green. The only thing I really know about this film is that the scene of Sherlock and Moriarty having tea in the last episode of the most recent Sherlock is inspired by, or borrowed from, a similar scene in The Woman in Green.
Before I watch either of those I really ought to tidy the hellish tip that is my room. Today is the only day this week that I've felt like I've done nothing useful, so I best change that even if I'd really prefer to be doing anything else.
January did last long enough for me to form a bit of a Sherlock obsession that currently has me writing a story with the Mark Gatiss version of Mycroft Holmes after his brother's apparent death. I'm also reading through the original stories, some of which I've read before, some I haven't and a great many that I can remember listening to in the form of the Bert Coules adaptations with Clive Merrison and Michael Williams as Holmes and Watson. I mustn't forget the stories I've watched with Jeremy Brett as Holmes. It's amazing how many years the characters of Holmes, Watson, Mycroft, Mrs Hudson and Inspector Lestrade have been in my life in their many incarnations. I know that another Arthur Conan Doyle tale came into my life even earlier that Sherlock Holmes because I remember listening to a tape with The Lost World back around the same time I had tapes with stories such as Peter Pan and a telling of the Pandora myth.
With my head being so full of Holmes there are a few films I am very tempted to get, which are
The Seven Percent Solution (with Nicol Williamson as Holmes and Charles Gray as Mycroft, who he also played in the Jeremy Brett version), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (which Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have mentioned as a big inspiration) and Without a Clue.
I do have a couple of DVDs to keep me occupied for the meantime, one of which has 5 episodes with Ronald Howard as Holmes from a 1950s TV series and the other is a Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce film, The Woman in Green. The only thing I really know about this film is that the scene of Sherlock and Moriarty having tea in the last episode of the most recent Sherlock is inspired by, or borrowed from, a similar scene in The Woman in Green.
Before I watch either of those I really ought to tidy the hellish tip that is my room. Today is the only day this week that I've felt like I've done nothing useful, so I best change that even if I'd really prefer to be doing anything else.
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Date: 2012-02-04 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-02-04 06:07 pm (UTC)*notes info*
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Date: 2012-02-04 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 11:06 pm (UTC)you have to get over both the Lassitude and the Longitude!
maybe we should form a Com.here? nag_the_writer@dreamwidth.org ...
LOL!
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Date: 2012-02-04 11:27 pm (UTC)Maybe a comm would be a good idea. Give people like us a place to talk about how our writing is going (or isn't going!) and nag each other to write even just a little bit every day (and after a little bit, there's always a little bit more). I know it helps me to talk about my writing and there's always forgotten ideas that are stirred awake by looking back at old notes and conversations.
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Date: 2012-02-04 11:41 pm (UTC)as for the comm - i'm surprised you're not running one already!
my problem is nerves when it comes to posting outside my journal - and laziness at posting inside, LOL! :))
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Date: 2012-02-05 12:07 am (UTC)Perhaps I should give a bit of thought to how the comm would work, though it is quite tempting to start one and see if we can make it up as we go along and perhaps between us we could look like we just about know what we're doing. :-)
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Date: 2012-02-05 12:24 am (UTC)seriously, the idea is lovely - i could so learn from you.
first things first - i've joined a couple of prompt comms, which was terrifying but i'm getting into it - and if i can pluck up the courage to post in one of them then that will boost my confidence for possible modding...
also, you rule :D
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Date: 2012-02-05 12:47 am (UTC)I should definitely have a look at some prompt comms. I'd like to take the time this Sunday to sit and write as much as I can get done in a day, so anything to spark me off and keep me going would be fantastic.
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Date: 2012-02-05 01:04 am (UTC)http://stayintheroom.dreamwidth.org/profile
http://writers-muses.dreamwidth.org/profile
if they don't spark you - and i'm not buried by snow (LOL!) -
msg me and maybe we can prod each other, might help us both. you never know! :))
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Date: 2012-02-05 01:26 am (UTC)I've found a word set here that instantly made me think of my pilot's crash:
mechanical
caused
jumpy
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Date: 2012-02-05 01:44 am (UTC)