@awnaves same. It sucks though, I have a lot of friends there, and they're just too dumb to leave.

@Anouk Damnit Stephen!

I also felt a similar conflict... but like, last year. I liked the products tesla was making/planning to make. Electric vehicles, semi trucks, modular smart houses. I remember thinking, "I like what his companies are making, but what does he have to be such a douche?"

Now I don't give a shit about tesla, let it burn, GM and ford will do just fine from here. Thanks for the push, Elon, but we don't need you anymore. Bye

@SteppinRazor are we living in an april fools version of groundhogs day?

The anatomy of a king size bed.

@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN I think they already made that movie; Due Date, with Zack Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr.

PTaA is kindof the quintessential opposite frienemy becomes best friends road trip movie.

@LisetteBrodey even if I had to watch an ad to unlock it, that would be totally worth it.

@natharari agreed. I actually thing there was a perfect amount of drama, which I think provides the emotional connection everyone like about the movie. It was unexpectedly dark at times and made you see Joh Candys character as a real living person with a lot of flaws. More antics would have balanced it better as a comedy and punched up the speed.

@LisetteBrodey I agree. It had been a long time, and I watched it last night... with someone who cannot bear to pay attention to anything if its too slow. It really didn't help😂

@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN to be clear, I still think it was great, but there were slow moments that could have used more work.

Its easy to say this in the digital age. Editing can be done in real time without physically cutting and taping strips of physical film, and cameras now aren't bound with reels of $100 bills spilling out every time you pull the trigger.

@natharari exactly. If there were more antics thrown in these dull moments, maybe something to better explain Steve's charaters lack of compassion towards strangers, would have gone a long way to pick up the pace. The emotional connection depends heavily on John Candys character, which I feel gets most of the writing focus for charater development.

I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but Planes Trains and Automobiles isn't as great as I remember. It's not a bad movie, but I could edit out 50% of the movie and it would flow much better. Its just so slow and has a ton of unnecessary time devoted to scenes, which is common in the pre-digital era of filmmaking.

It was a fine movie, but it could have been a great 45 minute short film.

@th3j35t3r people WANT light mode?! Who hurt you?

@JanGoesWriting that can be very useful. I've read a lot of boring blow by blow fight scenes. Enough to realize how important it is not to not to fuck up.

@TheStorySmith I could see that being a challenge. Most sci-fi authors I've read that successfully do this use the MC's tech incompetence as a tool to not need to fully understand what they're describing, just how they use it.

On the other hand, I found William Gibsons ability to predict such fine details of the future of computers, the internet and technology to be pretty impressive 40 years later.

@Canvasgal endless angst and sarcasm. That could be a YA novel by itself.

@IrieDeby I think its natural to avoid reliving it, but we are compelled to understand someone elses. Like we're training ourselves for something worse, but protecting ourselves from what we already know.

had a great writing session. I was just describing pain for like.... 8 pages. Stream of consciousness. I realized that maybe I know a little too much about pain. LOL

What subject do you excel at describing?

#writer #writersofcoso #writingcommunity #writing #nanowrimo

I think the crazy has been let out of the box. Like a casper mattress, there is no putting it back no matter how hard we try, or how many youtube tutorials we watch.

Bring the zombie apocalypse please, we need a do-over.

@SLWeippert

Hmmm, this is a real chin scratcher.