Do you see where I've been hiding in this hide-and-seek?
As a distraction from the latest medical stressors, I seem to be participating in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
threesentenceficathon for the first time. It is just as well that it is not an anonymous exchange, since all three prompts [edit: +1] I have filled so far could be obviously traced to me; nonetheless they are the first creative writing of any kind I have done all year. I may copy one of them to AO3 if the recipient approves. I don't know most of the requested fandoms. The songfic component interests me. I continue to feel I am not designed for fandom generally, but I am enjoying the experiment. I got out of the house before sunset and after a squall of rain which cleared just in time for clouds in the east crumbling like embers and piling up in the west like wet-inked mountains at the end of the street. Hestia has been sticking close to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch, especially when he's in bed and she can make herself a little black challah behind his knees. I made oatmeal with goat's milk and continue not to love this year.
threesentenceficathon for the first time. It is just as well that it is not an anonymous exchange, since all three prompts [edit: +1] I have filled so far could be obviously traced to me; nonetheless they are the first creative writing of any kind I have done all year. I may copy one of them to AO3 if the recipient approves. I don't know most of the requested fandoms. The songfic component interests me. I continue to feel I am not designed for fandom generally, but I am enjoying the experiment. I got out of the house before sunset and after a squall of rain which cleared just in time for clouds in the east crumbling like embers and piling up in the west like wet-inked mountains at the end of the street. Hestia has been sticking close to spatch, especially when he's in bed and she can make herself a little black challah behind his knees. I made oatmeal with goat's milk and continue not to love this year.
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I think you left your house just as I entered mine. The sky truly was spectacular in that moment.
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I'm so glad you saw it!
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Somehow I can count words, but never sentences! lol You sentence-counting people have all my admiration. ;-)
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It's true! I haven't even been watching movies lately.
Creativity is even nicer, too (and I don't think general fannishness is of much relevance for 3 sentences, whatever you feel yours is or isn't. <3<3<3)
Thank you. I just feel slightly orthagonal to the entire project.
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Somehow I can count words, but never sentences! lol You sentence-counting people have all my admiration.
It is definitely a constraint! I am used to considering line counts for poems and word counts for fiction and the punctuation is dealer's choice. It makes the fills feel like a challenge, which is part of what I am enjoying, even if at least two of them would have been regular flash fiction otherwise.
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Brains are weird, but it's at least something if they let one distraction in. It can be very random. I hope films get allowed again soon, but, hey: fills (that I need to take a look at it! I just been finishing an Actual Book a bit faster than I should do because it was good fun.)
It is definitely a constraint! I am used to considering line counts for poems and word counts for fiction and the punctuation is dealer's choice. It makes the fills feel like a challenge, which is part of what I am enjoying, even if at least two of them would have been regular flash fiction otherwise.
Oh, yes. I just find it funny, because I love writing the odd drabble, I love even more the 50 word poetry randomiser meme (not done for ages because dammit the poetry randomiser site died), and so when a x sentence meme went round, I was all: yay let me at it.
... five minutes later: wow, this is the most not-me writing thing I've ever done and I do not understand why.
I have done a 1 sentence thing for
<3 writing game/challenges are a good anyway. I look forward to reading the results of your experiments. <3
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I hope you are enjoying your Actual Book! The other thing I have been doing is reading Rupert Latimer's Murder After Christmas (1944), which is completely goofy and a genuine shock to me that it was never adapted for film by Launder and Gilliat.
I love even more the 50 word poetry randomiser meme (not done for ages because dammit the poetry randomiser site died)
I'm so sorry! I hope someone can resurrect it sometime. If it's the site I think, I feel kindly toward it for coughing up a line from one of my poems one time.
... five minutes later: wow, this is the most not-me writing thing I've ever done and I do not understand why.
That's an interesting thing to find out about your writing! I wrote a couple of one-line poems for a now-defunct monostich magazine once and those were incredibly difficult for me.
writing game/challenges are a good anyway. I look forward to reading the results of your experiments.
Thank you! Whenever, I hope you enjoy them.
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Nobody adapted the John Dickson Carr one where there was Only One First Class Sleeper, either! I don't understand people's choices.
I hadn't come across that particular title, but I'll have to keep an eye out - I do stumble over some of those BL reissues from time to time. They vary, but yay for a fun one!
Thank you! Whenever, I hope you enjoy them.
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(Btw, I've been watching Piece of Cake (a 1988 ITV 6-part series about an RAF squadron in WWII), which is the other earliest thing available with Jeremy Northam in, and the first time he got anything specific to do other than lurk in the background, was when they were looking for a pilot to talk to the schoolchildren and the senior officers were just: "How about Fitzgerald? He's very pretty." XD)
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Which one is that?
I hadn't come across that particular title, but I'll have to keep an eye out - I do stumble over some of those BL reissues from time to time. They vary, but yay for a fun one!
I have been buying them occasionally for my mother for a couple of years now, since they reprint Christianna Brand and Joseph Jefferson Farjeon and people I have never heard of whose mysteries look good, whence Murder After Christmas. The winner for me has been Michael Gilbert's Death in Captivity (1952), which was enthusiastically recommended me by
the other earliest thing available with Jeremy Northam in, and the first time he got anything specific to do other than lurk in the background, was when they were looking for a pilot to talk to the schoolchildren and the senior officers were just: "How about Fitzgerald? He's very pretty."
I am charmed at this typecasting.
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(The BBC adapted this as part of their 1960s Detective anthology series with Suzanne Neve and William Russell in the parts, which is absolutely perfect, so of course, they immediately burninated it. This means that we don't know whether or not William Russell wore a fake moustache and removed it later or grew his own. We suspect a fake moustache removal; a thing which should always be treasured and not burninated.) Annoyingly, nobody's ever even done a release of the surviving eps anyway and the series contained a lot of adaptations of detective stories that have otherwise never been adapted. BUt i'm pretty sure this has come up between us before!)
I have been buying them occasionally for my mother for a couple of years now,
I pick them up if I ever see them in the charity shops, although the results have been variable! I shall have to keep an eye out for both of those.
I am charmed at this typecasting.
It seems to be a thing! He and Nathaniel Parker are the Pretty Ones[TM] in this (officially), so they are having Romance while everyone else is doing squadron things. Unfortunately for this fictional Jeremy Northam, he's a very anxious young virgin who hasn't been able to perform yet and now the squadron rotter is swooping in to steal his girlfriend while he's on leave. Elsewhere the rest are dealing with classism, wooden propellers and dodgy aiming technology, squadron rivalry and survival training.
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I have read neither of those and will keep an eye out of them, as especially And So to Murder sounds delightful. I understand it was inevitably burninated, but I'm surprised no one ever re-adapted it. It sounds irresistible, especially to the self-reflexive film industry.
This means that we don't know whether or not William Russell wore a fake moustache and removed it later or grew his own. We suspect a fake moustache removal; a thing which should always be treasured and not burninated.
I am so sorry this information is lost to time. Are there no photographs? Do the photographs not help?
He and Nathaniel Parker are the Pretty Ones[TM] in this (officially), so they are having Romance while everyone else is doing squadron things.
I have seen Nathaniel Parker in Derek Jarman's War Requiem (1989.) He was a looker, even as Wilfred Owen.
Elsewhere the rest are dealing with classism, wooden propellers and dodgy aiming technology, squadron rivalry and survival training.
That sounds like it covers a lot of the experience! Please keep me posted. I just discovered the 1999 Winslow Boy is free with ads on YouTube, which since I have adblock is fine.
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They're my favourite two of his so far, although I expect you would like a lot of his - some of the others I've read lean towards being v creepy/horror things and he also has random time travel sometimes! (I was a bit too ill for the creepy atmosphere in the old execution room in the prison.)
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Are there no photographs? Do the photographs not help?
Not that I've seen! *shakes fist at burninators of TV*
That sounds like it covers a lot of the experience! Please keep me posted.
It continues to be very good and watchable, actually. (Squadron Leader Rex is going to get them all killed shortly if something doesn't happen to him first.) It has Richard Hope as the Intelligence guy (who doesn't even like flying), who is v good (I do recognise his face, and he was a semi-regular in modern Poldark), but he also randomly sang a folk song and Jeremy Northam and Nat Parker's wedding (not to each other, lol).
I just discovered the 1999 Winslow Boy is free with ads on YouTube, which since I have adblock is fine.
Yay! That link just says UNavailble in my country, but I am happy to know that it is visible to you! I do at least (finally, lol) have the DVD. (Well, technically at this moment, my Mum has it, but she is usually quite good at giving things back to me.)
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I would expect a certain amount of horror creep in mysteries, but I admit the time travel is more unusual. I have read fairly little Carr considering how prolific he was. Two years ago I was given the complete published scripts of his radio series Cabin B-13 (1948–49) and enjoyed those very much (per usual, almost none of the episodes themselves actually survive).
My flister john_amend_all who is the main person who recced him to me, has found some BBC Radio adaptations with Donald Sinden as well here
Nice! I like Donald Sinden and I've even read a couple of the Gideon Fell mysteries, although mostly what I remember is that their solutions are universally nuts.
It has Richard Hope as the Intelligence guy (who doesn't even like flying), who is v good (I do recognise his face, and he was a semi-regular in modern Poldark), but he also randomly sang a folk song and Jeremy Northam and Nat Parker's wedding (not to each other, lol).
I don't think I know Richard Hope at all, but I approve of people who can randomly sing folk songs.
(Well, technically at this moment, my Mum has it, but she is usually quite good at giving things back to me.)
I hope your mum enjoys it! If I manage to watch it myself, I will let you know.
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There seem to be a small group of male golden age authors where you should just expect anything, and he's definitely one of them. I managed to read one of the time travel ones (there are apparently two, not related to each other, but I'd have to find the original post where people were reccing them to tell you which one it is). (Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin are the other ones who jump to mind. The former is the one who wrote a novel where the characters in it wind up complaining that they might as well be in a Michael Innes novel.)
Two years ago I was given the complete published scripts of his radio series Cabin B-13 (1948–49) and enjoyed those very much (per usual, almost none of the episodes themselves actually survive).
Our permanent refrain!
Nice! I like Donald Sinden and I've even read a couple of the Gideon Fell mysteries, although mostly what I remember is that their solutions are universally nuts.
I get completely confused about which of his detectives is which, because they both seem deeply random, but I'm enjoying everything else too much to care, or else he's disturbing me with the dark vibes of a closed down prison too much to worry about that. (I seem to remember the prison one the detective - Fell or Other One - set about solving it by setting up a funfair in someone's gardens, so yes. See above re. the deeply random/weird/meta bunch of golden age authors!)
I want to track down some more to read, though, but I'll probably want to have a listen to some at that point.
I don't think I know Richard Hope at all, but I approve of people who can randomly sing folk songs.
I recognised that I had seen him in something when he was older, but this is the first time he's come on my radar, and he's certainly notably enjoyable as Skelton, the Intelligence Officer. I'm not sure where the Foggy Dew came from at all, though (neither did anyone else seem to be in canon, but then the Germans stopped him by attacking the base).
I hope your mum enjoys it! If I manage to watch it myself, I will let you know.
My Mum liked it! We just haven't been physically in the same space since I lent it to her in October.
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To be fair, as I will never tire of pointing out, Margery Allingham is also like this.
(Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin are the other ones who jump to mind. The former is the one who wrote a novel where the characters in it wind up complaining that they might as well be in a Michael Innes novel.)
Edmund Crispin I enjoyed at least half a dozen novels in the Gervase Fen series by—I don't think I hit a wall on them, I think the small press that was reprinting them stopped—at least one of which I remember containing a notable fourth-wall break. I don't think I have ever read anything by Michael Innes, although my mother might have had some of his books in the house when I was growing up. I see why you class him and Carr and Crispin on the strength of the metafiction alone.
I seem to remember the prison one the detective - Fell or Other One - set about solving it by setting up a funfair in someone's gardens, so yes.
It's a John Dickson Carr novel! Why not?
I recognised that I had seen him in something when he was older, but this is the first time he's come on my radar, and he's certainly notably enjoyable as Skelton, the Intelligence Officer.
Should I ever watch this show, I will keep an eye out for him. I don't suppose you have giffed any of it?
My Mum liked it! We just haven't been physically in the same space since I lent it to her in October.
Fair enough! I'm glad she liked it.
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A bit late in the game, though! XD
I don't think I have ever read anything by Michael Innes, although my mother might have had some of his books in the house when I was growing up. I see why you class him and Carr and Crispin on the strength of the metafiction alone.
I unfortunately have not been able to read enough Michael Innes to determine what a normal Michael Innes book looks like and whether or not I just happened to read the two outliers that shouldn't have been counted, although it is possible. (I've read about 4 or 5 and 2-3 of them were light but relatively normal or more comedic, but the others were Death at the President's Lodging (straight up classical Golden Age murder) and The Daffodil Affair (which started out with a horse and a house getting stolen and by the end we were in South America bemoaning being in a rubbish detective book by Michael Innes), but he goes in that box for the humour and randomness all right. (Idk if I recommend The Daffodil Affair as such, but it was pleasingly bonkers. The President's Lodging was great, and I do.)
I've read 3 Gervase Fens so far, and I do like Love Lies Bleeding, but am less sure about the others, but, again, certainly on the scale there.
It's a John Dickson Carr novel! Why not?
LOL, true.
Should I ever watch this show, I will keep an eye out for him. I don't suppose you have giffed any of it?
Eps 1-4 are all on disc 1, and I'm not yet at the end of ep4 (it's 6 eps), so I can't gif and watch it. I'm being a bit rubbish at giffing lately. I did manage a couple of Jeremy Northam in Poirot a couple of weeks ago, but I lack motivation!
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re. 3 sentences and the 500 word poetry meme - I was thinking about that, and went to look at the poetry meme again, and I can see that most of the time I average about 6 sentences to 50 words when I'm writing like that. When I write short, I tend to default to a very terse sort of style that works that way, or dialogue-only. (I was looking through the current post and even when I had an idea, I was just, oh, yeah. This is why I don't do this! XD)
Although in the process, I have located two possible replacement random poetry sites, so I shall do the poetry meme again, because that was always my favourite way to get me writing again if I needed it.
Also, unrelated, but I assumed you would want to know: I gave up on my play that maybe had David Collings, because he still hadn't appeared and an affair was going to happen that I wasn't up for, and started listening to The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (although lit. 5 mins as yet.)
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It is not a problem!
When I write short, I tend to default to a very terse sort of style that works that way, or dialogue-only.
That makes sense: it's a way of packing in a lot of information.
Although in the process, I have located two possible replacement random poetry sites, so I shall do the poetry meme again, because that was always my favourite way to get me writing again if I needed it.
Nice. I'm glad you have access to it again.
Also, unrelated, but I assumed you would want to know: I gave up on my play that maybe had David Collings, because he still hadn't appeared and an affair was going to happen that I wasn't up for, and started listening to The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (although lit. 5 mins as yet.)
Enjoy! Martin Jarvis should do enough breaking down to make up for the lack of David Collings. I have been listening to Bill Nighy as Charles Paris in The Cinderella Killer and he's/it's wonderful.
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It comes to a thing when you have to find Martin Jarvis to break down instead of David Collings! XD It seems good so far anyway, yes.
Glad you're enjoying the Charles Paris ones. I might have to see about finding the first ones, because those two on BBC Sounds seem very late in the series.
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He does it very well!
It seems good so far anyway, yes.
Yay. I sort of anti-imprinted on Ian Carmichael as Wimsey in the television adaptations, but enjoyed him much more than I had expected on radio.
Glad you're enjoying the Charles Paris ones. I might have to see about finding the first ones, because those two on BBC Sounds seem very late in the series.
They are readily available digitally, which is obnoxious because I had been hoping to purchase CDs for my mother, but still technically handier than waiting for them to come around on BBC Sounds. (There are a lot of them.)
[edit] Okay, individually they do seem to come as CDs. And Julian Rhind-Tutt is in the first one.
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I think his face his all wrong for it, and that isn't such a handicap on radio. XD
And Julian Rhind-Tutt is in the first one.
Uljabaan! XD I think there are some off-air recordings on Radio Echoes & IA as well.
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hugs and support. glad the fic is happening.
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Thank you.
*hugs*
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Thank you!
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after a squall of rain which cleared just in time for clouds in the east crumbling like embers and piling up in the west like wet-inked mountains at the end of the street.
That's so beautiful! (In a sort of coincidence, yesterday I wrote this: "and the clouds rise like mountains as the day starts with a spell, a feather on the wind, and the sea--that old pathway." I like mountain-like clouds too! <3)
ETA: I love "Freeze tag"! <3 (She also has other songs that give me noir-ish vibes, like "If you were in my movie", "New York Is A Woman", "If I Were A Weapon"... and also, there's the cover of her album "Beauty & Crime"...)
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I would be cheerful to participate under conditions of less stress! Next year in 3SF?
I was very happy to see your fills (especially the one for my prompt, which was the best--yes, I'm being very objective about this! XD)
Hey, I trust your judgment.
Thank you, seriously. It is not a form I had tried before. I am very glad it works, and that it works for you.
I find it's a realistic way of doing some tiny creative writing, and I especially like the "any/any" prompts, and the songfic prompts, of course!
I find the any/any + lyric combination really interesting! And at least in my case, fruitful: the line you quoted immediately evoked a film.
(In a sort of coincidence, yesterday I wrote this: "and the clouds rise like mountains as the day starts with a spell, a feather on the wind, and the sea--that old pathway." I like mountain-like clouds too! <3)
They are some of the best kinds! That is a lovely line.
and also, there's the cover of her album "Beauty & Crime"...
I would totally watch that.
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It's a date! <3
I find the any/any + lyric combination really interesting! And at least in my case, fruitful: the line you quoted immediately evoked a film.
<3 I hope I can come up with more good "any/any + song lyrics" prompts!
I would totally watch that.
So would I! (This is the back cover--I've just remembered that, when I bought this album, the cashier looked at it and said "Suzanne Vega has nice legs", and I had to agree with her!)