We’re entering the homestretch of the story now…
Continue reading “Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: The Major P&P Story Setpieces, Part 3”Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: The Major P&P Story Setpieces, Part 2
When we left off, the Bingley party had just left Netherfield. We resume some time later in London…
Continue reading “Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: The Major P&P Story Setpieces, Part 2”Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: The Major P&P Story Setpieces, Part 1
I don’t claim to hit all the high points, but these are the ones that come to mind…This is part one of however many it takes to get through the book.
Continue reading “Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: The Major P&P Story Setpieces, Part 1”Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: Bingleys and Darcys and Wickham, Oh My!
I am lumping the Bingley-Hurst clan, the Darcy-De Bourg clan (and their former dependent Wickham) together, along with their residences. Next piece or couple of pieces will be on major setpieces of the story.
Continue reading “Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: Bingleys and Darcys and Wickham, Oh My!”Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: The Bennets and Their Friends and Family
P&P is an astonishingly flexible novel. It’s been adapted twice into movies that soften the characters and leave out half the plot, and one surviving miniseries successfully hits most of the important notes (and finds room to embellish here and there) in six episodes running around 24 minutes apiece, for a total of slightly under two and a half hours. The version I am daydreaming about here is funded by a streaming service as a series of 8 episodes, running around an hour apiece. I do not have strong ideas about how to break down the individual episodes, but I feel that with more vignettes to illustrate character and setting and turn narration into events, we should get there without much difficulty…
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This is one of those topics that a lot of people have opinions about, and I am one of them. I intend to dump some thoughts about that on this blog, specifically what I would do if some insane person put me in charge of new adaptations of the novels I find most interesting. This initial post is about the ground rules I’m working from:
Continue reading “Thoughts on Adapting Jane Austen: Introduction”Never Forget: 80th Anniversary of D-Day
Lyrics here: https://www.flashlyrics.com/lyrics/jean-pax-mefret/jour-j-15 The more sober and historical minded videos using this song seemed to be age restricted, so you’re getting the version set to video game cutscenes.
Also, a mass parachute jump was done in honor of the paratroopers:
Weird Wednesday: Worldbuilding the Empire of Noricum
My main model for Noricum, where Wolf’s Trail takes place, was the Hapsburg Empire, especially the later, more decentralized version at the end of the nineteenth century. But the more I dug into it, the more I discovered that the Hapsburg Emperor had a much more hands-on role, even in that era, than I really wanted the fictional counterparts to have. So here’s the situation with the Emperor of Noricum in the books…
Continue reading “Weird Wednesday: Worldbuilding the Empire of Noricum”Writing Vacay, Last Day
Restless night. Earlyish rise. Family party. Too brain-dead to do anything more than names and family trees for the Space Regency idea. Wordcount not met.
Writing Vacay, Day 6
Feeling better today, although not really 100%
- 100ish words adjusting earlier scenes in the WIP
- 704 words in a new scene of the WIP
- Need to go to bed early so I can prep my contribution to Sunday Extended Family Lunch
- final count 800-ish words, wordcount target not met.
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