My writing peeve of the day

[annathepiper]

If I ever get to a position where, like the lovely and talented mizkit, I get to be worrying about such things as professional names to use on my novels, it will annoy me that I will not be able to have angelakorra'ti.com, on the grounds that you can't have an apostrophe in a domain name.

And after all the grumpy-making effort solarbird and I have had to go through over the years to get people to spell Korra'ti CORRECTLY, it would suck to have to misspell it on my own professional site. ;) It's ALMOST enough to make me decide to be Angela Highland for purposes of writing!

But okay FINE, I'll sell a book first. :)

Comments

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Stephen King. Although he hasn't produced many series at length (the Dark Tower series is the only one coming to mind), he is sitting on a mine of works and doesn't use one single initial.

[annathepiper]

*snicker* Very, very true! But he tends to go for zillions of novels, rather than zillions of words in a single novel, doesn't he? ;)

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, of the two novels that I've read of his, both were about the normal length of a book, whereas someone like Tolkein or Rowlings have one or two books that equal to about a third of King's works. It may not be that outrageous, but sure seems like it.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I hear that! Though I do recollect that It was about a thousand pages!

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

I've only read Misery and In the Eye of the Dragon.

[annathepiper]

What did you think of them? I've only read It and Cujo that I can recall offhand, and that was a while ago.

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

It's been awhile for both of them. Misery was really creepy, because it seemed so plausible. Besides, I saw the movie with Kathy Bates before I read the book, and I think she did an excellent portrayal of the woman who kidnaps the author to force him (the author) to write another book about her favorite storyline. As for In the Eye of the Dragon (I think it's Dragon King, not just Dragon), I really, really liked it and have read it several times. There's an element of fantasy to it and I like the story of the friendships that develop for the older prince (who should have been king after his father died but was convicted of killing his father, so the throne went to his younger brother, who had set his older brother up for the act of homicide).

I have seen the movie It, and was one of only two movies that have every freaked the hell out of me (Misery being the other). I doubt I'll be picking up the book anytime soon. I've seen parts of Cujo and have no interest in seeing it in it's entirity because that will more than likely be added to my short list of movies that freaked the hell out of me. Carrie didn't really scare me all that much. I've seen The Stand when some t.v. company showed it as a mini-series, and while it didn't totally scare me, I thought it was really interesting. I've not seen any other movies that have been King remakes.

I got to thinking, and I believe that The Stand is also one of King's few extremely long books that isn't a series. I've only seen it, never read it, partly because of the fact that it's so long.

[annathepiper]

Duly noted on all of that! I think the one King book I may seek out at some point is The Dead Zone, just because I really like the TV series. And it'd be interesting to compare it to the original work.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

The Dead Zone is one of the few King books I've enjoyed. I'm avoiding the TV series because I liked to book so much. I never did get more than halfway through The Stand (yawn), and Carrie never did much for me.

I liked The Tommyknockers, though.

[annathepiper]

My friend mamishka, who is familiar with both the book and the TV series, really likes the latter and says that they've done a good job taking the major plot threads out of the novel and weaving them in across three seasons so far.

Me, having just seen the show, I can attest that the vast majority of the episodes are extremely intelligently written, and right now it's about the only thing on TV that I'm looking forward to watching. :)