Movies Watched in June 2007

1. 2007/06/01 Battle of the Bulge. War. (1965, 167 mins.) NR
2. 2007/06/02 Battleground. War. (1949, 118 mins.) NR
3. 2007/06/03 The Age of Innocence. Drama. (1993, 139 mins.) NR
4. 2007/06/04 Pat and Mike. Romantic Comedy. (1952, 95 mins.) NR
5. 2007/06/05 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Action. (1980, 124 mins.) NR
6. 2007/06/06 A Raisin in the Sun. Drama. (1961, 128 mins.) NR
7. 2007/06/07 World Trade Center. Drama. (2006, 129 mins.) NR
8. 2007/06/08 Beloved. Drama. (1998, 172 mins.) NR
9. 2007/06/08 Wag The Dog. Comedy. (1997, 97 mins.) NR
10. 2007/06/09 The Remains of the Day. Drama. (1993, 134 mins.) NR
11. 2007/06/12 Erin Brockovitch. Drama. (2000, 132 mins.) NR
12. 2007/06/13 Marie Antoinette (1938). Drama. (1938, 157 mins.) NR
13. 2007/06/14 Troy. Drama. (2004, 163 mins.) NR
14. 2007/06/15 Bon Cop, Bad Cop. Comedy. (2006, 116 mins.) ***
15. 2007/06/16 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Action. (1997, 178 mins.) NR
16. 2007/06/17 A Beautiful Mind. Drama. (2001, 135 mins.) NR
17. 2007/06/18 To Catch a Thief. Thriller. (1955, 106 mins.) ****
18. 2007/06/19 War of the Worlds. Drama. (2005, 116 mins.) NR
19. 2007/06/20 Bon Cop, Bad Cop. Comedy. (2006, 116 mins.) ***
20. 2007/06/21 Bram Stoker's Dracula. Fantasy. (1992, 128 mins.) NR
21. 2007/06/22 Sylvia. Drama. (2003, 110 mins.) NR
22. 2007/06/23 A Good Woman. Drama. (2004, 93 mins.) NR
23. 2007/06/24 Garden State. Comedy. (2004, 102 mins.) NR
24. 2007/06/25 The Ballad of the Sad Café. Drama. (1991, 101 mins.) NR
25. 2007/06/26 Free Zone. Drama. (2005, 90 mins.) NR
26. 2007/06/29 Scenes From A Mall. Comedy. (1991, 89 mins.) NR
27. 2007/06/29 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Drama. (2003, 114 mins.) NR
28. 2007/06/30 All Creatures Great and Small. Comedy. (1975, 92 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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