Write What You Know

The universal advice to budding author wanna-be's. So what DO I know...that's worth writing? That's the problem.

Chillin' Out was based on where I was ten years ago, and for some reason I don't want to resolve it. When I try to move on, though, I find myself approaching much the same general premise. The happenstance of Boy-Meets-Girl is actually a contrivance of Girl, who knows everything about Boy but Boy goes along for the ride because he likes Girl. Add a good dose of Weird for flavor and color, plus measures of sex and rock-n-roll, perhaps a hint of violence or a good chase scene, and you get...nowhere, roughly 400 pages worth.

What's my problem? I can't blame Writer's Block...this is far more fundamental.

FP

Movie Keyword Meme

Via orcboy:

Take 10 of your favorite films, look them up on IMDB, then choose three of their keywords and post them on your LiveJournal. Everybody else has to guess what the films are.

1) Radical, Rescue, Aspiring Pilot--Iron Eagle, aced by lurkerwithout
2) Sawn-off Shotgun, Muscle Car, First of series--Mad Max, revved up by cygnia
3) Catatonia, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Based on True Story--Awakenings, correctly diagnosed by cygnia
4) Underground City, Surveillance, Baldness
5) Water Buffalo, Voice-Over Narration, Madness
6) Laser, Body Painting, Atomic Bomb--Goldfinger, heisted by orcboy
7) Sequel, Jewel Thief, Vacuum Cleaner--Return of the Pink Panther, filched by ladythief42
8) Marine Biologist, Aluminum, Time Travel--Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, beamed up by godai
9) Sperm Sample, Cold War, Fan Dancer
10) Nonlinear Timeline, WWII, Absurdism

Aside: This was kind of tough. There was one movie I wanted to include but the keywords weren't helpful. If they only included "Drive-In Theater"...

FP