Busy day.

My lagging project (lagging due to motivational problems) caught up on me. Ouch. Anyway, pushed it forward today.

Also, wanted to write K/S AU but the dialog is out of tune. I guess I've got to give Kirk some more thoughts. Feel up his current mental state a little better.

(What makes everything even stranger is that this AU will have another, parallel AU which is S/Mc, so sometimes I think Kirk and sometimes I think McCoy. The stories start with the same basic setting, but due to the character differences, they will - hopefully - be very different stories.)

Gna.

Dear Shatner,( bitching about his comments on his trek books in the ST IV commentary )

(no subject)

True words by Nicholas Meyer (commentary on ST II):

I believe art thrives on restrictions. When you're forced to be ingenious, things get better than if you simply throw oodles of money at the problem.

(Though I think you've got to be a good director to make that work, instead of just delivering a low-quality movie.)

And something else I love and keep doing in my writing:

I told Khan not to take off the other glove. People keep asking me, why didn't he take off the other glove? And I always turn the question around and say, "why do you think he didn't take off the other glove?" It's not my job to supply answers. It's your job as the audience to supply answers. (Addendum: his answer is that it just seemed right at that time.)

I firmly believe that a story does not have to explain everything the characters do or think. Do I know what you think when I look at you? No. And that's how I love to write my stories. If it's POV character A, he doesn't get everything character B will do. Just as we have open questions in life, about why someone did or did not do something, I want this to be in my stories too. (Not all of them, but many.)