Movies Watched in February 2007

1. 2007/02/01 Baby Doll. Drama. (1956, 114 mins.) NR
2. 2007/02/02 Million Dollar Baby. Drama. (2004, 132 mins.) NR
3. 2007/02/06 The Tragedy of Macbeth. Shakespeare. (1971, 0 mins.) NR
4. 2007/02/08 Some Like It Hot. Comedy. (1959, 122 mins.) NR
5. 2007/02/09 The Poseidon Adventure. Action. (1972, 117 mins.) NR
6. 2007/02/10 Breakfast at Tiffanys. Comedy. (1961, 115 mins.) NR
7. 2007/02/11 Rashômon. Drama. (1950, 88 mins.) NR
8. 2007/02/11 The Guns of Navarone. War. (1961, 158 mins.) NR
9. 2007/02/11 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Drama. (1983, 134 mins.) NR
10. 2007/02/12 Like Water For Chocolate. Romantic Comedy. (1992, 105 mins.) NR
11. 2007/02/13 My Fair Lady. Musical. (1964, 170 mins.) NR
12. 2007/02/13 Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. (1950, 107 mins.) NR
13. 2007/02/15 Out Of The Past. Biographical. (1947, 97 mins.) NR
14. 2007/02/17 De Fem benspænd. Documentary. (2003, 90 mins.) NR
15. 2007/02/17 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Romantic Comedy. (1947, 104 mins.) NR
16. 2007/02/17 Mighty Aphrodite. Comedy. (1995, 95 mins.) NR
17. 2007/02/18 The Maltese Falcon. Crime. (1941, 101 mins.) NR
18. 2007/02/19 Seize the Day. Drama. (1986, 93 mins.) NR
19. 2007/02/20 From Russia with Love. James Bond. (1963, 115 mins.) NR
20. 2007/02/20 A Streetcar Named Desire. Drama. (1951, 122 mins.) NR
21. 2007/02/21 Spellbound. Thriller. (1945, 111 mins.) NR
22. 2007/02/22 A Streetcar Named Desire. Drama. (1951, 122 mins.) NR
23. 2007/02/23 The Thin Man. Comedy. (1934, 91 mins.) NR
24. 2007/02/26 The Enemy Below. War. (1957, 98 mins.) NR
25. 2007/02/26 The French Lieutenant's Woman. Drama. (1981, 124 mins.) NR
26. 2007/02/27 The Sweet Hereafter. Drama. (1997, 112 mins.) NR
27. 2007/02/28 South Pacific. Musical. (1958, 157 mins.) NR

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Please, Please, Please, No More

Saturday, October 8, 2011 ... what is the best way to start your novel ... C ount them. One. Two. I downloaded two thriller e-books from amazon.com, both published by the author, and they both started the same way: the character waking up and going about some morning ritual. Both books were in the top 100 bestsellers of Mystery & Thrillers Fiction. Both had many positive reviews. Those facts seemed encouraging, but once I read the opening scene, I stopped. I did not continue. But James that seems harsh? Perhaps, yes, but the writer is sending a signal with such an opening. It says, I have more to learn about writing thrillers for today’s audience. Why do I say that? Because a waking-up scene is mundane. It’s ordinary. It happens to us everyday. We don’t read thrillers for the mundane and ordinary. We read them for the extraordinary. We read them to live vicariously through the characters. We read them to be entertained. There is nothing in those waking-up scenes th...

Analysis of Amazon E-book Fiction Bestsellers (Week #1)

Sunday, October 30, 2011 ... trying to make sense of the amazon bestsellers and pricing for e-books ... E ach hour Amazon updates its bestsellers lists. I have taken a daily snapshot of the top 20 bestsellers in the e-book fiction list for the past week. See here . What can be learnt from these data? 1. 4 out 5 of the bestsellers are from print or traditional authors. Most are brand-named authors who dominate the print bestsellers. 2. Almost all of the authors have multiple titles to their credit. The author of The Help is a notable exception. 3. The e-book prices of indie authors are substantially lower than print authors. For the most part, their titles are priced at $0.99. 4. The books on the list fall into four categories: (i) pre-release from brand-named authors, (ii) new or recently released titles (iii) long-term bestsellers (greater than one year), (iv) backlist titles. Indie authors fall into (ii) and (iv). 5. The indie authors includes authors who ...

Checked Off

Sunday, April 11, 2010 ... one To Do is off the list ... I recently completed a task that was completely irrational. It was a fixture on my To-Do list because I always put it off. This week I decided to change that. I dug through my files of sketches and drawings and scanned them into my computer. A simple concept, sure, but tedious and time consuming. I suggest wearing latex gloves or buying hand lotion, but maybe that's a personal choice...Anyway, I now have a folder with 1.2 GBs of JPEG and PSD files. Here's an example from 1992. Right, where's that To-Do list? I want to sketch a line on it. Posted 2010/04/11 at 13h54ET in JamesPiper.com.

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