Why Must It Be Cold
Apr. 23rd, 2015 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI am so sick of this eternal cold spot we're stuck in right now. I mean, seriously -- no quarter, no mercy. Or, well, we do get mercy, but only for a day or two at a time, which makes it feel more like a tease. I don't want this to be another cool, dreary summer. I want sunshine and warmth and all that good stuff. :(
Not much to say about today -- put in more records at work, did a half-hour on the elliptical, got dust in DragonVale and kicked ass in Spellfall -- though I did come across something interesting. I'm reading a book of Terry Pratchett's short fiction, A Blink of the Screen, and it includes a story called "Final Reward." It's all about a barbarian hero that a writer dreamed up coming to the real world, and ending up fitting in much better than the writer ever imagined.
And the first thing I thought about was Doug Walker's offering for the shorts that made up Channel Awesome's 5th Anniversary, Dragonbored.
Granted, it's hardly an exact fit -- Doug's piece is for a much more modern setting (Terry's was published in 1988), and the writer of "Final Reward" is a lot more likeable than the gamer of "Dragonbored." And has a better relationship with his character. It just caught me off-guard to see the story and think, "Hang on. . ."
Incidentally, I can recommend A Blink of the Screen as much as any of Terry's other books -- it's got some great stuff in it, including his very first story, published when he was 13! There's even a section for Discworld shorts for us fans of that series. :)
And now that I've plugged my favorite author yet again, I really need to go to bed. Night!
Not much to say about today -- put in more records at work, did a half-hour on the elliptical, got dust in DragonVale and kicked ass in Spellfall -- though I did come across something interesting. I'm reading a book of Terry Pratchett's short fiction, A Blink of the Screen, and it includes a story called "Final Reward." It's all about a barbarian hero that a writer dreamed up coming to the real world, and ending up fitting in much better than the writer ever imagined.
And the first thing I thought about was Doug Walker's offering for the shorts that made up Channel Awesome's 5th Anniversary, Dragonbored.
Granted, it's hardly an exact fit -- Doug's piece is for a much more modern setting (Terry's was published in 1988), and the writer of "Final Reward" is a lot more likeable than the gamer of "Dragonbored." And has a better relationship with his character. It just caught me off-guard to see the story and think, "Hang on. . ."
Incidentally, I can recommend A Blink of the Screen as much as any of Terry's other books -- it's got some great stuff in it, including his very first story, published when he was 13! There's even a section for Discworld shorts for us fans of that series. :)
And now that I've plugged my favorite author yet again, I really need to go to bed. Night!
