Weekend Madness!

[cathschaffstump]

Maybe not so much. I’m sewing, and I have to tell even my writing peeps how much I’m looking forward to the last episodes of Avatar: The Airbender tonight. If you haven’t been watching Avatar, you owe it to yourself as a writer to do it! It may well be the best written show in years. Well, it and Battlestar Galactica. There isn’t an ounce of fat in the show, and no plot thread is ever dropped. If you want to learn to write YA with heart, romance, drama, AND you want to write YA where the adults aren’t superfluous bunglers who merely get out of the way because it’s YA and the kids have to do it, my God, you should be watching this show!

Enthuse much? Well, I’m saying that if I taught screen writing, I’d include the show as a great example of how to do it.

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To keep you posted, Taryn Fagerness from Sandra Djikstra sent her rejection.

Next travelogue? The spectacular Toei Eiga Mura!

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Had I not waxed quite so poetic on Avatar, I would made some observations about agents and their stables of writers. I want to continue newbies like myself to keep sending things out, because while you’re getting rejected, what you’re learning is that all agencies have different climates, and all agents have different opinions. You begin looking at where you might fit and where you might not fit.
But more on that to come. With no names and full of my biased opinions.

First, though, I must go to a meeting to plan a seminar on old anime, and then I must watch a little bald kid with a blue arrow on his head triumph mightily.

Catherine

Originally published at Writer Tamago. Please leave any comments there.

Comments

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Maybe not so much. I’m sewing, and I have to tell even my writing peeps how much I’m looking forward to the last episodes of Avatar: The Airbender tonight.

I KNOW!!! We were waiting and waiting for the last episodes, and didn't even know they were showing this week until Thursday night when they were showing up in our recorded programs. We're so psyched about this last episode.

I have to say, though, I wasn't too thrilled about last night's. The only one who really seemed to be reacting the way I'd think any of them would to the play was Zuko (perhaps Aang as well, but not so much). I mean, there were all of the most poignant moments in the show in parody, and everyone seemed either amused or annoyed by them rather than genuinely hurt. That's just my opinion, though.