Teens Writing for Teens, the 5th

Good luck, Zoom!

Rejection!

Ah well.

I just made myself nauseous with my own writing. Well, that's a new one, but I feel strangely triumphant. And also disgusted. Not quite sure which feeling is stronger.

It can't be worse than the scene I just read in The Forever War!

My main character had sex with an illusion of his dead lover and completely forgot about the guy he's with now.

You tell me.

Meh. In the Forever War, the main character's girlfriend has a seam in her acceleration tank. It's a tiny ridge of fabric, maybe the height of a finger.

But under several hundred gravities, that slices from below her neck to right above the hips, deepest around the belly...

That sounds fantastic. Remind me to read this.

5000th post.

The Forever War is my direct inspiration for Debris Dreams.

Right down to the "Fuck you, sir" bit.

Course, the Forever War is a direct allegory for Vietnam. Mine is a direct allegory for Iraq/Afghanistan, right down to the space IEDs and space 9/11 and space Oil.

Who is it by?

Joe Haldeman. It won the Nebula, the Hugo and the Locus.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312536631/?tag=absowrit-20

Pitchew!

I'm not usually one to read sci-fi, but it shall be read

Arianna Sterling said:

My main character had sex with an illusion of his dead lover and completely forgot about the guy he's with now.

You tell me.

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That sounds disturbing. Seriously. How on earth do you come with these things?

Fun fact: When the book was first published, a huge hunk of the middle was cut out for being "too depressing".

But now it's back in!

lisalulu09 said:

That sounds disturbing. Seriously. How on earth do you come with these things?

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I have no idea o___o

Zoombie said:

Fun fact: When the book was first published, a huge hunk of the middle was cut out for being "too depressing".

But now it's back in!

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Yeah, I was reading that on the Amazon page you linked me to. I'm glad it's back in...I'd hate reading something watered down.

They're remaking Captain Planet as a live action movie.

Craaaaap...

Zoom, my childhood is begging you to say you're lying.

Also, 52K? Yay!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...Go-Planet-to-Live-Action-Captain-Planet-Movie

Nope!

Also, I just watched easily one of the dumbest Star Trek episodes in all of the EVER. And Star Trek is a pretty damn dumb show.

Okay, TOS actually is a lot better in my opinion, if only because they leave all the techno-babble off for the most part. I mean, TNG basically tries too hard.

Instead of, say, saying, "Oh, they're blocking our scans" they say "They're duotripping our polybeam scans with quantum resonation cascade devices!"

Anyone who knows even a little bit about science can see all the patent absurdities in that sentence, and anyone who knows nothing about science DOES NOT FUCKING CARE!

Just. Say. The. Effect. Don't go into the science unless you have actual science to go into!

It's THAT SIMPLE.

JESUS CHRIST.

Star Trek was a terrible show.

Once someone told me that I was misogynistic for not liking Jayneway.

Jayneway, the captain who deliberately committed genocide...twice. In the first season. Alone.

It comes on after Doctor Who sometimes and I'm always so befuddled by it. D:

I did enjoy the recent Star Trek movie, though.

I'm not a Trekie, and I very much like Star Wars better, but I do like Star Trek as well.

Yeah, the Star Trek movie was fun. We also watched the 1996 Star Trek movie First Contact recently and that was pretty good too. Apart from the evil woman villain tempting the heroic men with her evil womanly wiles.

Good Star Trek

(2) Wrath of Khan
(4) Voyage Home
(6) Undiscovered Country

The new Star Trek
First Contact

A few episodes of TOS and TNG.

A lot of DS9. But that's mostly because DS9 was similar to Babylon 5, the vastly better show.