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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
o_O:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on January 13, 2013, 05:08:53 PM --- and a bit of business that's currently in the start of #3 moved back to #1 for character purposes.
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Interesting.
gatordave96:
Up to 229,000 words this evening. Being distracted by the temptation to plow through the rest of "A Memory of Light" by Jordan/Sanderson.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: o_O on January 14, 2013, 05:14:40 PM ---Interesting.
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The implications of working with someone who was a war hero a long time ago and has been using his reputation to keep himself in the field long after he should sensibly have moved to a staff job, in ways which are a pain in the behind to people with him, recomplicate interestingly when there is the setting's equivalent of a huge blockbuster movie about the character in question; lots of people know his name, and even more people have heard of him but think of the actor from the movie instead.
Now combine that with a context where moderately famous actors often licence their image for androids, and where some security forces are very keen to use known images that people will have positive associations with. (Imagine if two-thirds of the security guards in your local mall were Bruce Willis.)
This is going to be fun. Particularly when I get far enough into the series that the characters have to deal with people making movies of the earlier books, though in the current plan that does not happen until #5.
Snowleopard:
If a bunch of security people in a local mall looked like Bruce Willis - I'd run
for the doors. To paraphrase a line - "You have a hunch and Insurance companies go bankrupt!" ::) ::)
o_O:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on January 15, 2013, 06:39:39 PM ---The implications of working with someone who was a war hero a long time ago and has been using his reputation to keep himself in the field long after he should sensibly have moved to a staff job, in ways which are a pain in the behind to people with him, recomplicate interestingly when there is the setting's equivalent of a huge blockbuster movie about the character in question; lots of people know his name, and even more people have heard of him but think of the actor from the movie instead.
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Ah so. I have a " Vulcans making a movie about Kirk just as he's about to find out about Khan" image here.
--- Quote ---Now combine that with a context where moderately famous actors often licence their image for androids, and where some security forces are very keen to use known images that people will have positive associations with. (Imagine if two-thirds of the security guards in your local mall were Bruce Willis.)
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I actually went with Chalker's Vals here, and Liam Neeson's face, but it does sound like fun.
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