Writing

Nothing moves until I give it explicit permission to move. Nothing makes a sound until I give it explicit permission to make a sound.

I'll occasionally link to YouTube videos here on DU, but if I'm not in the mood for video, I don't have to see video.

I've always been one of those people troubled when novels are turned into movies. Other people's visual interpretations of a novel are never close to what was going on in my own head when I was reading the novel.

For example, as much as I appreciated Emma Watson in the Harry Potter movies as I read the novels it was my impression of Hermione that she was more like some of the young women in my own family. A little more aggressive, if that's the right word.

I've got a few nieces who are crazy about horses. If you've ever seen twelve year old girls bossing around the sorts of horses that make many grown men nervous, then you know what I mean.