Writing Update & Movie Comments

Originally, I'd intended to have my next story ready for publishing sometime in the October-November time frame, but the story took on a life of its own. To wit, what started out to be a novella has grown to novel size by science fiction standards.

I'll be sending the manuscript to my editor on the first of December and I plan on publishing the novel sometime during the last two weeks of December—before end of year.

As I've mentioned before, the story falls under the umbrella of science fiction. It's a combination suspense, thriller and biotechnology tale that takes place in the present day.

Now onto a couple of movies I've seen recently. Well, actually only one.

I tried to watch the 2012 Norwegian movie "Turn Me On, Damn it" twice. The first time I watched about fifteen minutes of the movie before I turned it off, bored. The second time I made it about twenty-five minutes before giving up, again bored.

It's essentially about a teenager in the Norwegian boondocks who wants to escape her boring existence and surroundings. Now I had no complaint about the acting, but the pace was way too slow for me. Plus I couldn't get into the subject matter.

The second movie I watched was the science fiction movie, Perfect Sense (2011), starting Ewan McGregor and Eva Green. It takes place in the present day and the plot deals with how humanity reacts to losing first one sense (taste), and then another sense, and so on and so forth.

It was a strange movie, but it makes you think, to appreciate what defines us—and what it means to loose what defines us.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars and recommend the movie.