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The Writing Thread: Orlando Passaggio (aka The Writing Thread 3)
mare:
Just popped in to say I watched the ER reunion and loved it!! So good. You can tell they legitimately really love each other and it showed in their acting and chemistry on the show.
I haven’t caught up in this thread yet. Lol
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on April 24, 2021, 08:19:00 PM ---lol, I can't imagine anyone is out there going "Oh no, another Backstreet Boys fanfic where they're all mostly white guys! Just once I want one of them to be a different gender or race. At least the slash fanfics have some diversity!" I say this jokingly, but I'm sure there's a non-porn version of rule #34 and these stories do exist.
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LOL Probably! I mean, I did read that one where they were rabbits. If they can be different species, they could be different genders or races.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on April 24, 2021, 08:33:15 PM ---lol. I've gotten an approximated "and stuff like that" plus a "Hi, I'm Nick" impression in today. I'm on a roll with BSB jokes, clearly. (Also, please excuse my underline, it's italics in the document, but italics don't translate to quotes here.)
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LOL You are on a roll! I'm glad you worked in Howie saying "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" instead of "and stuff like that," and I liked Brian doing a high-pitched voice for his baby Nick impression. Aww! As you said, you need sweet/funny/cute/cheesy moments as flashes of light in the darkness.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on April 24, 2021, 08:33:15 PM ---Now that we've talked about PBox&Co broadly today, let's discuss MBK broadly (or someone else's story) from the jumping off point of genre and tropes. Express your concerns or ideas about whatever!
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All I've got right now is that I am finally writing new content in my current in-progress chapter! I feel like I was really focused and productive because I was away from this forum for about two hours since my last post, but I just looked at my word count, and it's only... 337 words. Ugh. LOL But I did spend part of that time adding a small exchange to another chapter, part of that time researching Muhammad Ali, and part of that time skimming Nick's book. This is why I will never win in a writing spring competition LOL.
On another, somewhat related note, I'm confused about the timeline of Nick's version of events in his book. I was reading the Cool Springs Rehab chapter where he talks about moving to Tennessee after hitting rock bottom in 2006 and finally reading that self-book Kevin gave him there. But according to more than one celebrity home site I used to research, Nick did not buy his house in Tennessee until December 2007. So I think maybe he was a year off in how he remembered things. Blame it on the ecstasy.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on April 24, 2021, 08:57:46 PM ---Just popped in to say I watched the ER reunion and loved it!! So good. You can tell they legitimately really love each other and it showed in their acting and chemistry on the show.
I haven’t caught up in this thread yet. Lol
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Yes!! What an awesome cast. They reacted the same way to seeing each other that I reacted to seeing them! I would love to see more reunions with them and other cast members too. I'm glad they got so many of the original cast members to join, especially George Clooney, but I would have loved to see Eriq LaSalle, Sherry Stringfield, and other cast members from the later seasons too.
They were right with what they said about it being lightning in a bottle when asked about rebooting ER. There has never been another medical drama like it, and I think I've tried watching every one that has come on since ER ended. Even the decent ones, like New Amsterdam and The Resident, don't compare. They just had the perfect cast, the perfect writers, everything. They didn't try too hard to be current or political, and yet they did have diverse characters and some groundbreaking storylines, like Jeanie's HIV and Weaver coming out as a lesbian. And for the most part, they got their medical info right.
I could talk about ER forever LOL.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: mare on April 24, 2021, 08:57:46 PM ---I haven’t caught up in this thread yet. Lol
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I think we're harder to catch up with on the weekends, lol. Glad you caught up on the ER reunion like you intended.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on April 24, 2021, 09:23:07 PM ---LOL Probably! I mean, I did read that one where they were rabbits. If they can be different species, they could be different genders or races.
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But were they rabbits with facial hair? Because I always picture Kevin with facial hair. And did rabbit!Kevin have expressive eyebrows? These are the things I care most about, obviously.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on April 24, 2021, 09:23:07 PM ---LOL You are on a roll! I'm glad you worked in Howie saying "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" instead of "and stuff like that," and I liked Brian doing a high-pitched voice for his baby Nick impression. Aww! As you said, you need sweet/funny/cute/cheesy moments as flashes of light in the darkness.
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I think I needed some jokes in my life this week, and what better way to do it than nostalgic BSB stuff. And comic relief (yet inwardly serious) PBox Brian, he gets me every time. I hope everyone else laughs at his antics as much as I do.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on April 24, 2021, 09:23:07 PM ---All I've got right now is that I am finally writing new content in my current in-progress chapter! I feel like I was really focused and productive because I was away from this forum for about two hours since my last post, but I just looked at my word count, and it's only... 337 words. Ugh. LOL But I did spend part of that time adding a small exchange to another chapter, part of that time researching Muhammad Ali, and part of that time skimming Nick's book. This is why I will never win in a writing spring competition LOL.
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Yay, you got to your new chapter! If you needed to research to write good things, then you needed to research. I was also feeling really productive in the past hour and only wrote about 200 words, so I feel you. We're just not as fast as we used to be. I wonder if the lack of pressure to have a new chapter to post right now contributes to that or if it is just because we are more thorough in our while writing research. I think we're about tied. Let's do it! Writing sprint for fifteen minutes right now! Go!
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on April 24, 2021, 09:23:07 PM ---On another, somewhat related note, I'm confused about the timeline of Nick's version of events in his book. I was reading the Cool Springs Rehab chapter where he talks about moving to Tennessee after hitting rock bottom in 2006 and finally reading that self-book Kevin gave him there. But according to more than one celebrity home site I used to research, Nick did not buy his house in Tennessee until December 2007. So I think maybe he was a year off in how he remembered things. Blame it on the ecstasy.
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I repurchased Nick's book with the intent to reread it back in October when I went looking for my I'm Taking Off cd and couldn't find it. I think maybe I had them both digitally and that computer died? Anyway, I haven't yet, purely because I'm trying not to let hot mess Nick interrupt my plucky PBox Nick groove.
Back on topic, I feel like he was in Tennessee when this forum was in its infancy? Maybe check back on old threads and see if we talked about it? That could have been either late 2006 or late 2007, but would surely confirm one way or the other. I agree, I blame the ecstasy. I never trust him or AJ for timeline things anymore except for hard facts (like all five of them meeting each other on April 20, 1993 or when a CD came out). But then, I also did not do ecstasy and have a hard time remembering exact timelines myself, so maybe it's a combination of age and a hard party lifestyle. (I'm slightly exaggerating for my own "hard party lifestyle" here, obviously.)
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