Scary stat day
Oct. 30th, 2002 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hildy89I finished the second Booth story today. God, I can't believe I actually wrote the whole thing. I was quite honestly prepared to submit about half of the story. But I persevered. The scary stat is the rising word count from this class. Mind you, I have written completed stories, aside from fanfic, in years.
WHITE OUT: 4249
HISTORY LESSON: 6989
"History Lesson" actually has a weird convoluted history. It started life oddly as a movie trailer I did for a web design class. I created the trailer using Macromedia Director and formatted it in several different players. The purple outline is one of the buildings from Georgetown University I used to always see on my way to DC when I commuted with my parents. I had thought up the movie as one of those awful Sci Fi Channel movies that only have two or three set changes.
Then I wrote the actual version. The story takes place at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The premise is that in the future someone connects a holographic projector to an artifical intelligence based on a dead professor. He would have all his old memories and existence. Is that good or bad? And what kind of culture shock does he get when a major part of his life doesn't exist anymore? And how does a well meaning history professor deal with this odd teacher?
The other odd bit was detailing the professor's background where he served in WWII during the Blitz. As I wrote it, I realized some of his reactions sounded familiar to me, like I had picked up on it somewhere. Not the actual background, but how it affected him, etc. Then I remembered the forward to "Lord of the Rings" where J.R.R. Tolkien replies to the comments that his books are an allegory of wartime England:
One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918, all but one of my close friends were dead.
WHITE OUT: 4249
HISTORY LESSON: 6989
"History Lesson" actually has a weird convoluted history. It started life oddly as a movie trailer I did for a web design class. I created the trailer using Macromedia Director and formatted it in several different players. The purple outline is one of the buildings from Georgetown University I used to always see on my way to DC when I commuted with my parents. I had thought up the movie as one of those awful Sci Fi Channel movies that only have two or three set changes.
Then I wrote the actual version. The story takes place at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The premise is that in the future someone connects a holographic projector to an artifical intelligence based on a dead professor. He would have all his old memories and existence. Is that good or bad? And what kind of culture shock does he get when a major part of his life doesn't exist anymore? And how does a well meaning history professor deal with this odd teacher?
The other odd bit was detailing the professor's background where he served in WWII during the Blitz. As I wrote it, I realized some of his reactions sounded familiar to me, like I had picked up on it somewhere. Not the actual background, but how it affected him, etc. Then I remembered the forward to "Lord of the Rings" where J.R.R. Tolkien replies to the comments that his books are an allegory of wartime England:
One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918, all but one of my close friends were dead.
Oh, you are *scaring* me now!
Date: 2002-10-30 07:21 pm (UTC)For nearly ten years, I've had a character of whom I'm extremely fond, who has shown up in various projects of mine. He happens to be a hologram with the identity of a deceased British professor.
*shakes head in slightly creeped-out amazement*