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[cleolinda]

So, finally: Braveheart is finished. I think a lot of the hold-up was trying to figure out how to make some of the death and the violence and the suffering and all funny. You'd think I'd have figured this out after Titanic, but apparently it took me one more movie to get the process down, which is this: don't make it funny. I mean, I know that sounds obvious, but it's a lot harder in practice, and I've ended up handling each instance differently. But mostly it involves sidestepping things, or focusing on a side element, or downplaying something, or having it happen "offscreen," so to speak. I'm just hoping I've got the technique down definitively enough that I can get through Gladiator without all this wibbling. (Think of the beginning of the movie in particular, with the emperor and the wife and the son and all. Yeah.)

I have two weeks left. It's Come to Jesus Time, as my mother would say. You may not see me around much for a while. I'll try to check in with any linkspam that comes my way, but... yeah. I'd like to do Sin City in Fifteen Minutes, but we'll have to talk about that once the book is turned in.

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[brachiosaurid.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting Braveheart finished! :)

[girlfrom10thave.livejournal.com]

Yay that you finished Braveheart! Good luck finishing the rest of it! You can do it! I totally believe in you.

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

OMG Two weeks! EEEE!!!

[ayn-rand-fan-13.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your deadline! Yeah, Gladiator is really heavy, but I guess compared to the melodrama of Titanic it's not so much.
*early comment jig*

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Congrats.

Also, your sitemeter claims you had over three thousand visitors today, which, wow.

[jekylls-bast.livejournal.com]

Congrads on conquering 'Braveheart' and good luck with 'Gladiator'. And with the "heaviness" of those two movies in mind, ever give any thought on "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"? Now don't go throwing thigs at me, I am just curious, and as much as I try to keep up with all the movies you are and have done, sometimes little movies get lost in the din of others....
Again, good luck mate!

~Sarabi

[jonnydark.livejournal.com]

Right now that emoticon is more pig than guinea i think.

The rating i find works best for humor is - Telling the truth (be it obvious or overlooked) in such a manner that it invokes laughter instead of saddness.

It works 80% of the time. And something like a pun or slapstick with their much lower rating of 45% can actually invoke a strong reaction of laughter when skillfully pulled off.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

You may not see me around much for a while. I'll try to check in with any linkspam that comes my way, but... yeah.

*waves bye, bon voyage, and au revoire*

(And I'm looking forward to the new, less-stressed you. Seriously, I can hear the hair tearing through the internets.)

[(Anonymous)]

Good luck sweetie. I'll be thinking good thoughts for you.

[ernie-lundie.livejournal.com]

I can't wait til the book comes out. I'll order it, where can order it by the way?

[elbales]

Congrats, good luck, don't worry about Sin City in 15, just get your stuff done so you can relax.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Eh, don't get too excited. You guys are still gonna have to wait a minimum of six months (I think) to see it. ; )

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know, man--I used to use those for my other sites or blogs, whatever I was doing at the time, and I broke more today than I did in months anywhere else. I can't believe I didn't think to do it before, but I decided I wanted to be able to give publisher/editor types some numbers as to daily visitors.

I will admit, however, that those stats account for all the 15Ms (even on the m15m comm) and the Lost recaps, because I manually stuck counters on those. Not just the front page here, in other words.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, the book selections have been nailed down for a while, spanning 1993-2003. Going into summer movie season, once the book is out of the way, I'm probably going to be focusing on new movies just hitting the theaters.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. Actually, Braveheart was pretty low on the actual stress; it just took FOREVER.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I have no idea at the moment--I would assume that Amazon will carry it, as I've seen even small, self-published books there. It's a good six months off, so trust me, when it's available, you won't be able to get me to shut up about it. : )

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Well, I knew it couldn't be just this entry or anything, since you'd just posted it. But even if you consider all those popular hits...over three thousand. In one day, you attracted as many people as signed the Save Veronica Mars (http://www.saveveronicamars.com) petition over a couple months.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I totally believe in you.

Me to. I may have to post here occasionally with encouraging remarks.

[kyranjaye.livejournal.com]

It may also be counting people's views on friends-pages, since the counter's showing up there, which may be skewing your numbers somewhat (since the counter may be on a page viewed several times as flists update, with only one of those views actually a cleolinda-reading view.)

But I'm not entirely sure how counters work, so I could be wrong.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww! I think automatically appearing on people's friends lists has a lot to do with it, though.

(Now over 4000.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it gets counted on a friends-view if it's behind an LJ-cut. Several of the counters are on LJ-cut pages (particularly Lost and 15M), and most of those are old enough anyway that you'd have to be going straight to that entry on purpose.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, bless. I'll probably post something, even just a sentence, every day, because I like seeing the little squares on my sidebar calendar fill up.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I'm an agnostic (which is to say, an atheist without the courage of his convictions) but if any gods or muses do exist, I call upon them to make this as quick and easy for you as possible. *hugs*

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

You do have a point. That's over two thousand hits right there.

You wouldn't happen to want to use your popularity to help Veronica Mars, would you? Cause the ratings still suck, and while Rob Thomas is confident about a renewal, it's still anybody's game. Maybe direct people toward saveveronicamars.com (http://www.saveveronicamars.com), where we're trying to raise a little more money for an ad to heighten awareness of the show, and Mars Investigations (http://www.marsinvestigations.net), a site some of us TWoPers have designed to help newbies caught up with the show (and it's turned out to be a great resource for hardcore fans as well). I'm not sure how much of your readership even watches VM now (if I were to judge by icons, I wouldn't say a large percentage), but I think it's on-par with or better than Lost, and I know they watch that. ;-}

And speaking of using your popularity for a good cause, I got a thank-you e-mail from Christina! That was cool and unexpected.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

No, it wouldn't. That counter would only be loaded once they click the cut and go to the page with the counter code on it.