things are looking up >:)

[mildlyaroused]

As of a few hours ago, I hit 20,000 (manuscript) words so far for the month of April. In the context of my writing these past few years, this speed at this consistency is unheard of!
That's all there is to this thread, just a happy fact of the day

 

[TheRedChamber]

Yes, but there's a typo in one of those 20,000 words.

You should definitely stop writing and go back to look for it.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Yes, but there's a typo in one of those 20,000 words.

You should definitely stop writing and go back to look for it.

Cruel, sir. Very cruel.

 

[mildlyaroused]

Yes, but there's a typo in one of those 20,000 words.

You should definitely stop writing and go back to look for it.

And when there's one typo there's many... maybe a re-write is in order?

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

full steam ahead!

 

[oneagainst]

And then you review page one again:

allworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboy....

and for some reason you have an axe.

 

[ElectricBlue]

And then you review page one again:

allworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboyallworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboy....

and for some reason you have an axe.

I've seen that manuscript / prop in a Kubrick exhibition that came to Australia in the late noughties. He had his secretary type out the same sentence over and over, with random changes in format and spacing, on a ream of paper - must have been 500 pages.

The exhibition also had the Barry Lyndon low light lens he got from NASA, the Starchild from 2001, the three wheeled camera buggy he used on Full Metal Jacket, the Shining's Steadicam (the first film to use it), and Danny's trike. Amongst a tonne of other stuff.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I've seen that manuscript / prop in a Kubrick exhibition that came to Australia in the late noughties. He had his secretary type out the same sentence over and over, with random changes in format and spacing, on a ream of paper - must have been 500 pages.

The exhibition also had the Barry Lyndon low light lens he got from NASA, the Starchild from 2001, the three wheeled camera buggy he used on Full Metal Jacket, the Shining's Steadicam (the first film to use it), and Danny's trike. Amongst a tonne of other stuff.

Being Kubrick, I guess he just couldn't have a few pages typed and then photocopy the rest. But, true, I suppose most copiers back then wouldn't reproduce very well. But would the audience have noticed?

 

[gunhilltrain]

And when there's one typo there's many... maybe a re-write is in order?

Just proofread everything a lot. Seriously, five or six times is good. Also, as I think electricblue suggested once, have a copy that has the font and font color changed. That does help in catching errors.

Also, proofing about 5,000 K words in one sitting is about the most I can do.

 

[mildlyaroused]

Being Kubrick, I guess he just couldn't have a few pages typed and then photocopy the rest. But, true, I suppose most copiers back then wouldn't reproduce very well. But would the audience have noticed?

I believe Kubrick also had the pages replicated in all the different languages the film was distributed in, so the task was even more mammoth! Many of the variants now live at the Kubrick Archive at the LCC in London.

In German, for instance, it was "Never put off til tomorrow what may be done today."

 

[gunhilltrain]

I believe Kubrick also had the pages replicated in all the different languages the film was distributed in, so the task was even more mammoth! Many of the variants now live at the Kubrick Archive at the LCC in London.

In German, for instance, it was "Never put off til tomorrow what may be done today."

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He was a great filmmaker, but perhaps his perfectionism eventually worked against him. I'm considering that he took longer and longer periods to get a film released. That applies to Lit too; there are always trade-offs to be considered. But filmmaking is so much more complicated and also slower than writing. I don't have what it takes to succeed in that at all. The logistics are daunting.

 

[SimonDoom]

He was a great filmmaker, but perhaps his perfectionism eventually worked against him. I'm considering that he took longer and longer periods to get a film released. That applies to Lit too; there are always trade-offs to be considered. But filmmaking is so much more complicated and also slower than writing. I don't have what it takes to succeed in that at all. The logistics are daunting.

I was just reading an article about Clint Eastwood, who at 93 has just finished what he says is his last movie, Juror No. 2. He's the anti-Kubrick. He gives actors wide latitude to do scenes the way they want to and is famous for doing few takes and directing films very quickly. There are many ways to do it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Being Kubrick, I guess he just couldn't have a few pages typed and then photocopy the rest. But, true, I suppose most copiers back then wouldn't reproduce very well. But would the audience have noticed?

That's part of the chilling horror of that scene - when Wendy turns and turns the pages, and they're all very very different. That's when we truly realise Jack is insane. That's the goose bump scene for me, every time I've seen the movie.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

full steam ahead!

That's a diesel engine ship

 

[gunhilltrain]

That's a diesel engine ship

Almost all the American ones are nuclear-powered now. Of course, we won't sell any of those to another nation. So where does Israel get theirs? Germany!

 

[lustychimera]

Almost all the American ones are nuclear-powered now. Of course, we won't sell any of those to another nation. So where does Israel get theirs? Germany!

Now I don't know if you guys are history buffs...

 

[gunhilltrain]

That's part of the chilling horror of that scene - when Wendy turns and turns the pages, and they're all very very different. That's when we truly realise Jack is insane. That's the goose bump scene for me, every time I've seen the movie.

Isn't that in the novel too? From the book, there are many clues that Jack was unstable long before he got the hotel job. That's why he took the job. He had been fired from his teaching post because he was drinking too much and had assaulted a student over a minor matter.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Now I don't know if you guys are history buffs...

Norm McDonald? If you are really testing our history knowledge, show us a picture of General George McClellan. His son (same name) was mayor of New York and operated the first underground train. He got so into it that he drove it all the way to the end in Upper Manhattan even though he wasn't supposed to. Top that!

https://mholloway63.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/tumblr_nbskxn18dv1sxq5xco1_1280.jpg

 

[lustychimera]

Norm McDonald? If you are really testing our history knowledge, show us a picture of General George McClellan. His son (same name) was mayor of New York and operated the first underground train. He got so into it that he drove it all the way to the end in Upper Manhattan even though he wasn't supposed to. Top that!

https://mholloway63.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/tumblr_nbskxn18dv1sxq5xco1_1280.jpg

I suppose the train story is an apt description of this thread!

I heard the story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi years back on NPR. The guy was heading to work at the Mitsubishi plant in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Despite being a mile and a half away from the epicenter, he not only survived the bomb but three days later, he managed to make his way back to his hometown: Nagasaki.

And I guess because he's Japanese, the man went into the office to hand in his assignment three days after surviving a nuclear explosion.

Then the second bomb dropped. The man survived two nuclear explosions, then, I guess as a fuck you to God, the man lived to be 90.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwi...-hit-by-two-atomic-bombs-should-you-have-kids

 

[gunhilltrain]

I was just reading an article about Clint Eastwood, who at 93 has just finished what he says is his last movie, Juror No. 2. He's the anti-Kubrick. He gives actors wide latitude to do scenes the way they want to and is famous for doing few takes and directing films very quickly. There are many ways to do it

The problem with a lot of takes is that it's difficult to edit all that footage. Kubrick seemed to take it in stride, but others - Brian De Palma is one - have said that they have a hard time eventually figuring out how to put it all together. Also, he had a lot of studio interference that Kubrick could avoid.

How did we get to this? It started out with proofreading, went to HTML tags, and kept going.