Completed another chapter and I'm fleshing out another one I started a while back. The count is 59,000 words and a novel length manuscript is somewhere between 100 and 120,000 words. I'm silent here because I'm writing elsewhere. Thank you for your kind words and good wishes.
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Not that you really knew it – but I’ve broken with sci-fi tradition and declared my contempt for the Star Wars franchise after ‘Attack of the Clones’ appeared, going on 4 years ago. It hasn’t gotten better over time and although I hate being right, it appears the new round of animated Star Wars stories – I’m sure you’ve seen “The Clone Wars” trailer right before Dark Knight – isn’t any better. Who better to tell us this than Harry Knowles of “Ain’t It Cool News"?
The downside of the issue is what Knowles and Valleywag.com have talked about – Lucasfilm doesn’t take criticism of their movies lying down. Knowles retracted his review of Clone Wars after being threatened with exile from future advance screenings of Lucasfilm productions. Star Wars movies have become one of those things that are ‘cool to hate’ among the more sophisticated. I just get depressed as I contemplate a major inspiration of my own creative projects look and sound like they were constructed, directed and produced by homeless winos. I can smell the groupthink from here.
