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Just a general pop in thread
mare:
Happy New year to you both! I can't even recall the last time I actually stayed awake for the new year. Probably that one time I went to see BSB when they did their New Year's Eve show in Bethlehem. Aj's oldest daughter was just born so it's been a long time! This year we watched about 90 minutes of Wicked and then I went to bed around 10:30.
I haven't watched Squid Game at all. It just seemed ultra-violent and gory which turns me off shows but then on top of that it's also using subtitles, those two things combined made me stay away. But maybe I will try it out. Is it super gory? That's why I stayed away from The Walking Dead as well.
Good job getting as close to your goal as you did! And I know you'll manage to make your next milestone in January. I did finally finish my chapter yesterday. For some reason I get stuck in my head when it comes to wordcounts and this entire story most of my chapters have been 4,000 words or more. For most stories it's 3,500 or so. This last chapter is about 3,800 so I felt compelled to keep going until I read it and realized there was no real reason to. I'm starting my next chapter today but only writing a little bit. At least I'll be ahead of myself again. I post on Mondays so by then I will hopefully be at least a half chapter ahead of myself.
I definitely had a thing with groundhogs. lol I feel like in novels, whenever they introduce a pet, especially in suspense or horror, it seems the sole purpose is to kill it at a later date!
Steph, I LOVE that cat who has just kind of adopted you guys and made himself at home. That's how I got Bella. One day she literally knocked on my back door and when I opened it she came in, went under the kitchen cabinets and found a toy mouse. lol That's when I figured maybe the people that lived in the apartment before me abandoned her there.
RokofAges75:
LOL I think I stayed up till 5 a.m. on New Year's Eve/Day. I was trying to finish my chapter before I went to bed, which still did not happen. The only time it's hard for me to make it to midnight is on a Friday after a full week of work. I usually go to bed earlier on Fridays than any other day because, by then, I'm exhausted and looking forward to sleeping in the next morning.
You should give Squid Game a try and see what you think. The first episode will give you an idea of what to expect, but I think it takes three episodes to really get into the story. It is pretty brutal in terms of blood and violence, but it's not as gory as The Walking Dead. Since you know that going in, you'll at least be somewhat prepared for that aspect of it. If you can get past that, there are some interesting characters and a good story. You will probably dislike the main character, Gi-Hun, at first, but give him time. He grows on you! You can watch it dubbed in English or in the original Korean with subtitles. I watched it in English the first time around, and I found the dubbing cheesy and distracting for the first episode or two... but after that, I got used to it, and it didn't bother me anymore. The second time around, I actually watched a lot of it in Korean with subtitles because I wanted to hear what the actors' real voices sounded like. Again, after a while, I got used to it and didn't even realize I was just reading subtitles and listening to a different language. Even if you watch it in English, I found that the subtitles helped me keep track of characters' names better, since they're mostly all Korean.
I just finished another great Netflix show last night, A Good Deed. It was similar to Dead to Me if either of you watched that show a few years ago. (Same writer, I think!) It has Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano in dramatic roles, which was interesting. They both did a great job. It's more of a dramedy/mystery than a straightforwar d drama, but it did make me tear up a couple of times.
Congrats on finishing your chapter! I totally get the thing with word counts and trying to stay consistent. 3,800 is close enough to 4,000 though! I've been able to let some of that go and just let chapters be as long or short as they need to be. I usually have the opposite problem, where they go on too long without a natural stopping point, but since there are already so many of them, I've resisted the urge to split the really long ones up into multiple chapters. I hope your next chapter is easier to write!
That's the cat distribution system at work! I got my late cat Luci the same way. When I was still living with my parents the year I student taught, she just showed up in their backyard as a stray kitten and never left. I purposely adopted my current two, but sometimes the cats adopt you LOL.
Carter-Orange:
Well done to both of you for managing all that writing.
Yes, I agree about the Squid Game main character. At first you really don't like Gi-Hun, there's just nothing to like about him until the games get going and then he really does grow on you with the way he is towards others. I watched it in Korean with subtitles as I also like the hear the actors actual voices, although I also watched the first one dubbed too. The subtitles really don't bother me anymore and I've watched quite a few foreign language TV shows now. Mare, it is violent but it's nothing compared to The Walking Dead, which I'd say is pretty gory at times.
It seems cats pick who they want to be with lol. Chase has made himself right at home here :)
mare:
Okay, I'll give it a try. Maybe I'll watch the first episode today. I managed to watch Shogun with all the subtitles. It didn't bother me too much. The only bad thing about it, is it just takes 100 percent of your attention. I don't know about you guys, but I am terrible when I watch something. I also spend most of the time scrolling on my phone. I tried watching that show Dark dubbed, but it bothered me too much and I never went back to it.
A Real Pain is going to start streaming for free on Hulu on January 16th. If you don't have Hulu you're more than welcome to use my info. That pretty much goes for all streaming things for both of you.
I started watching Fly Me to the Moon last night. It's a movie on Apple with Scarlett Johanson and Channing Tatum. It's good so far but just like all movies, I got about halfway and had to stop. LOL
i did get some more writing done today. Yay!
RokofAges75:
That is true about foreign shows with subtitles taking 100 percent of your attention. I'm pretty good at not scrolling on my phone when I'm watching something I've never seen before, so that's not a problem, but I could not watch the subtitled version of Squid Game while I was eating because I looked away from the screen too much. So I did a lot of switching back and forth between Korean and English, depending on whether or not I had snacks LOL.
I do have Hulu, so I can watch A Real Pain when it comes out!
Congrats on getting more writing done! I haven't written much yet in the new year. Since I spent the last few days of 2024 trying to write as much as I could, I've taken it easy the last few days. This is my last weekend before I go back to work, though, so I'm gonna try to get further into the chapter I'm writing. I did get some outlining done the other day, so I have a better idea of what will happen in the next few chapters.
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