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Cinder Spires Books / Re: Timing Question
« on: December 18, 2014, 11:34:18 PM »
Ah, my curiosity gene is faulty these days. Also, "good Spot"? You don't know me at all. Those two words don't go together.
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It could be that your phone just thinks Shecky is very loud.Or that he shakes his cane rather vigorously.
I keep hearing people say that this is original, but I could never see it myself. Sure, I've never heard of any other fictional vampires who sparkle (although I'm sure if I went digging hard enough I would probably find something similar somewhere--nothing new under the sun etc), but it didn't seem to make THAT big of a difference to me. I mean, the rest of the 99% of traits are still borrowed from someone else or mythical sources or wherever. JB's vampires feeding on lust felt more original to me than the sparkly-sparkle.OH I wasn't saying that those books were original, but that was the best example of a bad book I could give that overused someone else's ideas, and had one idea that maybe original.
I rather like the term "nosferotica' Neuro.Yes, they'd enjoy the vampire shagging.
Maybe it's too high class for those who like that kind of thing.
I'm reminded of hearing the cockpit recording of a pilot trying to bring in a damaged plane.Wow, just wow.
The plane's complete hydraulics system messed up and he could only turn the plane in right hand
circles. Traffic control told him that they'd cleared one of the runways for him.
This calm voice from the plane - "Oh you want me on a specific runway - I was hoping just to
hit Kansas." Side note - they brought the plane down in a crash that looks horrific but a vast majority
of those on board, including the cockpit crew, survived. Further note: - in every test simulation
they've done of that particular crash - NOT ONE PERSON SURVIVED.
I've heard them called "vampire shaggers"; I prefer the term "nosferotica" but I can't seem to get it to take off.I'd much rather we didn't have to call them anything at all. But yes, if there was a genre called Nosferotica, I may be tempted to pick one up one day.
It depends on the characters, but certainly, there is a specific flavour of humour that people in dangerous jobs often develop to help cope, and more of that among urban fantasy characters in similarly dangerous situations would be appealing to me.Exactly. And that sense of humour is what helps us in real life, when things are not going exactly the way we want them to. Why should any character in a book be different? Because that's how you care about characters in books, when you can identify with them, be it one trait or all of them.
hehe, ya, it was a long while before I found out either. They've said that more than once they've both auditioned for a part and it came down to a coin toss.Hahahah, poor them! Though looking closely, I can pick up some differences in them. Not enough to make you think "different person!" but enough to make you take a second look.
Ive been trying to figure out a good actor for Billy Borden, and I think Ive settled on one of the Ashmore Twins. It probably doesnt really matter which one, they are both comparable actors. It might be randomly cool to use Shawn for early Billy, and Aaron for the later one after billy was supposed to have bulked up a bunch, but I think they'd need a story with more flashbacks to make that sort of thing necessary.I'm an idiot. I never knew there were two of these guys.