Ah, I’m a day late, but hey, better late than never. After the Tuesday from hell, Wednesday was a necessary needed break and today wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Thank you, Jesus. Tomorrow is Friday, say yippie kye yay! Planning a quiet weekend and some writing. Actually, I’m writing tonight. Gary is demanding some time.
Ah let’s see… what do we have on the movie list- Â AH! Installment 14 – the baddest badass villain of them all…
Mr. Rickman’s Severus Snape was equally bad ass.
He will be so missed.
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Where did this week go? Luckily I scheduled myself to have Monday “off.”
Hans Gruber is definitely on my list. Snape somewhat less so as it’s not entirely clear that he’s a villain; I think he’s an anti-hero.
Snape was just a lovely character – you didn’t know until that very last scene with him. Alan played him so well.
I had last Monday off. I don’t think we have anymore long weekends until Spring Break the 3rd week of March. There is only 12 weeks of school left, I can’t believe it. Although, if I have another day like Tuesday, I might find another career.
yes this was a very speedy week, made speedier in my case by having to lie in the dark for day and 1/2 due to migraine grr! That is a good choice for weekend movie 🙂 And yay to the writing 🙂 I hope i’ll get reading time 😉
I’ve posted the missing link from Roland’s arc in Aside from heaven. Right now, I’m working on Gary…
that sounded erotic….
The next chapter of The Shepherd is ready to go and will next week, I’m pretty sure and I’m thinking the next installment of William Edward will write itself. Warning: It will probably b e the darkest chapter so far.
ohh a lot of stuff yes i got the email about the update, it was crazy week so i was saving it for tonight when i get back home 🙂 mmmm and yes please do work on Gary , erotic or not 😉 Oh dark… sniff….. 😦 well he’s got a few lives to go, nothing to be done about it.
William’s road isn’t an easy one. Sometimes, when I compare William and Roland’s lots, they’re like a study of contrasts. There WILL be some softness for William coming, but it’s going to be very difficult to write because William… is William. He has his eye focused always on that light 700 years away.
Gary… someone made the comment somewhere – is like a big, comfy blanket to wrap yourself up in. His life is crazy right now – a new relationship that he’s trying to find his footing with and his boys are coming home for Thanksgiving… and the former in-laws being… former in-laws.
sounds like normal life, i mean Gary 🙂 As to William, isn’t it weird i’m more drawn to him than Roland? Maybe it’s that protection instinct, he suffers more, is darker , ergo i want him saved 😉 Not that i am dissing Roland’s talents or anything 😉
William does what needs to be done. So did Roland, but what Edward is asking of William, is much different from what Henry asked of Roland. Henry was simply trying to protect his interests in Europe, as well as make sure what happened in Europe with the Catharians and Catholic Church didn’t happen in England. Edward is much more self-serving person. In this day, we’d refer to William as one of the best wet-workers in the business. he kills people. But there is a price to that darkness. Roland amassed and set the foundation of the beginnings of a vast fortune. William is trying to solidfy it and make sure it lasts. Difficult job when your monarch is taking people’s estates and giving them to 2 men who are no where near deserving.
yes, protecting for the future is a much tougher job … maybe that’s why in William i identify more of the Guy we knew, who had very dark times an struggles and wasn’t able to achieve as much as Roland could… It is what makes him interesting to read, smooth sailing would not be half as exciting.
I think many times as writers, we want to fix tragic characters. We want to save them, give them that pink and fluffy ending we want so very badly.
Guy was NOT a nice person. I rewatched the first couple of episodes of RH in order to ground William in that persona. I stated he has softness coming up from a most unexpected source and it’s going to be a manipulative, rough wooing. I just completed a book where I was so angry for pretty much the entire thing – it was supposed to be a love story. To me it was anything but and I DON”T want this particular relationship to come out that way.
hm maybe more as readers than as writers 😉 Thankfully writer know that a good read is often NOT giving the reader what they want 🙂 And yes i remember watched pretty much more than half of S1 of RH thinking, what are they all raving about? He’s a bastard! And then Marian’s manipulation begins as the relentless down-putting from the sheriff and suddenly a few chapters later you find yourself smitten and reasoning bastardness and evilness away 😉 Sneaky.
But yes, that is exactly it, he gives me that uncomfortable almost scary feeling, where you know he knows right from wrong but those will not be arguments he uses in his decisions.
You do need that source of softness to keep being interested in the character though, otherwise you just want him to be stopped and that is not the point.
That’s what i like about reading you, the balance or rather high-wire act between not making them some alpha male ridiculous heroes but human enough to be interested in their fate, with their good and bad 🙂
And also i have to say with RA in general i’ve grown increasingly and maybe scarily comfortable with the darker side if things in general, shall we say on the path from decision, sometimes judgment or certainty to exploration, doubt, understanding? Slippery slope that 🙂 is he the devil’s advocate? 🙂
With William, I sense that yes, he KNOWS right from wrong, however as you stated, that isn’t what he bases his decisions on. His decisions are rooted in protecting his children and his family’s interests. It’s a tough line to walk.
Life isn’t rooted in right and wrong. We all make decisions based on outside forces. It makes it real.
So such is…
LUNCH TIME!!!!! I’m thinking Philly Cheese at Sonic!!!