This Somehow Became A Writing Rant

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Stayed up late last night alternately watching my siblings play Beatles Rock Band as I wrote and watching some of the first season of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.* It’s good to have my brother home.

For some reason I’ve been more listless than usual this week, and haven’t even bothered with the friends page—so if something you want me to know about is somewhere back there, let me know. Even my writing has slowed down—gods help me, I’m on the last episode chapter and it feels like I’ll never get to the end. I really hope this slowness is due to its being the first time and, like with other craft-style projects, you get faster as you sort of figure out what you’re doing.

Doesn’t help that I’m going through one of those increasingly frequent phases of THIS IS A TERRIBLE BOOK NO ONE WILL READ IT WHY EVEN TRY. At least I’ve learned to plow through that. But the rising insistence of the Obligatory Giant Young Adult Fantasy Epic to be put together is on the same cycle for once, and with both forces combining it’s hard to keep motivated to finish Doctors!. I just keep telling myself that once I get the raw composition done, I can scribble all I want about the OGYAFE whilst I try to edit Doctors! for continuity.

At least I have too many projects, instead of too few. And my Sharpies will get me through this, because with colorful Sharpies, one can overcome anything!


*In related news, I think I have partially figured out why everything comes back around about two decades later—the generation that was very small right when those decades were happening starts to discover the strange sensation of having a past, and starts to wonder what the hell that early past was all about, anyway, and then suddenly the late 80s and early 90s have risen out of the grave like some sort of hideous neon zombie, dressed in backwards baseball caps and ready to hit the arcade to the accompaniment of synthesizers and drum machines.

Comments

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Power Rangers rocked. Admittedly, Season 1 rocked mainly for the vast amounts of scenery chewed, especially by JDF... But still. I miss the first six seasons. Things kinda went downhill after Wild Force, with blips for Ninja Force and Dino Thunder...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Man, I was all up in the Power Rangers for the first season or two. I think I stopped around the time the movie came out.

It was a pretty daft show all around, but I give 'em points for introducing me not just to martial arts, but to the idea that you're supposed to use it as self-defense and never as offense.

Granted, then they'd go around beating the shit out of monsters, but I still took away that lesson.

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Well, they WERE defending people from the monsters. :)

Season Six, Power Rangers in Space, is widely considered to be one of, or even THE best season the show has ever had. It rips off Star Wars in points, but the Rangers can ACT, the writers are fairly skilled, and there's a whole-season thread of some impressive emotional depth. Also TJ, the Blue Ranger, is incredibly hot. :)

If you left around the movie, you missed two seasons of "meh" *3 and 5*, one of "Cool!" *4* and one of "HOLY SHIT!" *6*.

Then the franchise got rebooted somewhat, and follows sentai a little more closely.

*I wrote PR fics for quite some time, and a lot of my current work still has ties to my main PR series.*

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Your book is made of awesome and I will buy multiple copies. I know this simply from reading your writings online.

Also, I came to the same conclusion about cultural cycles-- it's the nostalgia factor. Now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that more of my favorite childhood books will end up back in print as well.