Visiting friends of a friend (Patreon)

Work went well this week, and the company had a load for me that went west, and my manager arranged for me to drive by the yard on my way there, so I was able to take a day off in Calgary and hang out with my friend. 

On Saturday, a friend of his had a birthday so we went there, and it was a fun, simple affair, a few friends and family, plus me. We talked, enjoyed pizza, and talked some more. On Sunday, a friend cooked dinner and we went to that, this felt a little more sophisticated, but it was still enjoyable.

It was a nice and relaxing weekend.

Movies

I watched ‘Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children,’ a variation on the school for mutant that Marvel has made popular. In this version, children who have abilities are called ‘peculiar’ and are taken to refuges for their protection. These refuges are somewhat outside of time, a bubble of 1 day that keeps resetting. Although the children and their caretakers don’t reset, they don’t age in the bubble, and they can control where in time they exit, so long as it’s after the bubble was established, and before it was popped.

The story follows Jake, who, after the death of his grandfather, wants to go to the place where he grew up to try to understand him more, and in the process comes across the peculiar children and their haven.

Over all the movie is quite enjoyable, and except for one situation, remarkably consistent. Unfortunately, that one scene was so bad for me that It broke me out of the movie and it took me a while to get back in it, and it’s a very simple scene.

Jake and Emma have gone underwater to a sunken ship. Emma is lighter than air so she needs lead boots to be able to remain on the ground, but she can breathe under water and allows Jake to do the same. Once they reach the boat, they swim in it.

This is where the problem happens. Emma, with her lead boots, swims under water, kicking her feet and all. It was so jarring, and such a simple thing to resolve that I can’t understand why they allowed the scene to remain as it is. All they had to do was have Emma walk while Jake followed her swimming. There’re only traveling, so her walking instead of swimming wouldn’t have caused any problem

So writers out there, take heed, make sure you don’t break the rules you set for your worlds.

I paid full price for the DVD and I think that’s a fair price.

Writing

This week has been another rough writing week. I spent the first half of it trying to work on A Familiar Death, and only managed to complete Chapter 10 where Marlot runs into his sister, and gets talked into having dinner with his family, even if he didn’t want to.

After spending a couple of days trying to write CH 11, I decided I needed a change and started working on yet another story, called ‘Illuminar Academy’ The main issue I have with it, is that it’s a book that follows the 9 book series “the hunter” none of which have been written at this point. What it means is that by the time it is its turn to be published, it should be perfect. 

I wrote CH 1 where we are introduced to Devon Turner, a young man who is just arriving at the Illuminar Academy, where his parents enrolled him after something happened at home, and it quickly becomes apparent that Devon might not be a normal young man, and neither is the academy’s principal.

And that’s all there is, so I’ll see you on the next one.