Charles
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David Wong:
Hey Jason, I finished WtHDIJR (what a mouthfull of an acronym) in a single sitting the day it came out. It was really good, keep the novels coming. I know the DVD for JDatE has been out awhile but have you ever considered doing an unofficial commentary track for the movie (e.g. Darren Aronofsky put one online for his movie The Fountain)? It would be neat to get a first-hand author's perspective scene-by-scene.
David Wong
That sounds like a great idea, but it's one of those projects that sounds simple but would take days. Since I'd be doing it solo, I'd have to come in in advance with a series of points to make and I'd need to watch the movie a few times and take notes and have a sense of how long each bit takes. Otherwise you're going to get either long silences or me saying things that don't pertain to what's happening on screen. Then I'd need to edit the audio after to fix the parts where I screwed up and had to start over, etc. So it's one of those things that would be extremely cool but I'd be putting other work aside to do it, since I don't really have days off.
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Erich w/ an h
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David Wong:
In my humble opinion, Spiders is your best written novel. I believe that partially because I view the titular Spiders as a metaphor for addiction. That makes them a lot more terrifying for me. Is this just my interpretation, or was that something you intended when writing the novel?
Curtis Cupach
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David Wong:
Do you have any writing exercises you'd like to suggest? I try and write one thing a day, whether it be a book review or a sketched out interaction between different forms of my insanity. What I have trouble with the most is finding a starting point though. Once I get my foot on the ledge I can blather, I just need to find a better way than blindly kicking the rock face as I scramble in the dark.
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