There’s A Draft in Here. 156 of Them.
This is the blog post version of talking to myself as I clean out the Argh draft folder:
DELETE:
I Suck As a Blogger. Totally worthless post.
Arrow Thursday: Five Pounds of Story in Two Ten Pound Bags. Bitching about bad story-telling on Arrow. Nah.
Sense8: It’s About the Relationships. I covered this is a different post. It goes.
Sense8: Not an Eight Man Band. Analysis of group dynamic in Sense8. Too much of a straw man argument.
Sense8: Let’s Talk About Structure. Covered in a different post.
New Trees. I moved into a new house. Three years ago.
I’m Easily Amused. LOL Cats. I must have been drunk.
Maybe This Time: The Soundtrack. That book was out five years ago. Who cares?
Good Blog: If Shoes Could Kill. From April of 2010. Here’s the entire post:
“It’s probably no surprise to anybody who’s read Bet Me that I am crazy about shoes. I can’t wear most of them because anything over a kitten hell makes me fall over, but I love them anyway, the more off-the-wall, the better. And now there’s a blog that loves them, too:
If Shoes Could Kill. 
Weird Shoes. Huh. Whole post:
“Sometimes I think about shoes. I can’t wear high heels–I trip in flats–but I yearn really fabulous high heels. Like these:
See FashionVictim101 for more.”
Do We Need Another Buffy? Entire post was this link: http://io9.com/5700871/we-need-more-v.... I probably parked it there so I could think about it.
522. The curriculum for McDaniel 522. No idea why it’s a blog post.
The Office Day 12: Done At Last. Entire text is “Link to Houzz.” No idea what was going on there. (Where’s one through eleven?)
The Office Day 11: One More Shelf. Evidently I planning a 12 Days of Office for the cottage. That went nowhere.
The Office Day X: More Clipboards, Cool Lights, and One Big Shelf. Oh, this was when I was making that little room off the kitchen my office. Yeah, that didn’t work out. Never mind.
Random Sunday: The Fixer-Upper Edition.” From 2011. Mostly dreck except for this:
“Grandchildren: Mine are perfect in every way. And staying close enough to see them twice in one trip east was wonderful. After I move, I can see them every week; it’s going to be fabulous. I remember the first time somebody whispered “That’s Jennifer Crusie” when I went past, but it was nothing compared to hearing “That’s Callie’s grandma” when I walked into the nursery school. My daughter and son-in-law are excellent, too, but my granddaughters . . . oh, my. Not allowed to show pictures for very sensible reasons, but you should see my girls. [And now there’s a boy, too. Amazing people.]
Best Gawker headline ever. If I ever start a rock band, I’m going to call it Massively Hung Squirrel.”
Random Sunday. Completely inane.
Random Sunday: The WTF Editiom. More inane.
Rant: Lazy, Bad, Selfish Storytellers. The whole thing is talking about how good Shakespeare Retold’s version of Taming of the Shrew is. No idea what the title means.
Early Ink. About a website that’s now defunct.
Portraits of Wolfie: This one was a real post with comments until the site got hacked and we lost all the photos.
Character?Ending. Some blather that goes nowhere.
RETHINK:
Random December. I think this one is awful, but I’ll look at it again.
“You Should Watch Person of Interest.” This has to be more than fan service, so I need to think about what I’m saying more.
Not Fade Away: Why Do Some Authors Last? I’m not sure I have anything to say on this; definitely needs more thought.
Lavender’s Blue: The Soundtrack. I should probably keep this one until I finish the book, at least.
Sense8: The Dangerous Power of Big Ideas. Basically, “If you have a message, use Western Union.” Or Fed Ex. Whatever. Maybe delete the Sense8 stuff and turn this into a post about theme?
The Argh Sub-Genre Reading List. This starts out “sorry this took me so long” in 2012. I’ll need to look at it again.
The Bechdel Test. This is just a bunch of notes, so it needs a lot more thinking.
Leverage Post Out Groups. That is, this was going to be a Leverage post on out-groups. It’s a good topic that needs more thinking and probably is more about community in general than Leverage in particular.
Mystery Mistakes: Starts out “You’d think that somebody who’d read mostly mysteries for the first forty years of her life would have a better understanding of the genre, and yet I’m realizing I’ve made some really dumb assumptions, assumptions I’d be annoyed if anybody made about romance.” Needs a lot more thought.
Madagascar: Evidently I decided to do movie reviews. It’s not a bad idea, but it needs a lot more thought.
Review: RED. I really want to compare RED and RED II so I’ll hang onto this.
Titles. Mostly notes and a link. Might be good with a lot more thought.
FINISH:
Premise: An Idea Is Not a Story. This one is really good, but it needs more research and more thought.
The Sleeping Ninja Trope: Blindspot and The Long Kiss Goodnight. Another good one that needs more research and more thought.
Questionable: Making the Protagonist Come Alive on the Page. Good question, need to think the answer through some more.
So that’s 22 in the trash, one republished, 12 to think about and three to definitely finish.
One hundred and eighteen more titles to wade through. Stay tune for Part Two: “There’s A Draft in Here. 132 of Them.”
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