Sunday was better than Saturday.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve figured out a workaround for the video shoot \u2013 I\u2019m just not going to shoot in HD. That bugs me, but it\u2019s probably irrelevant anyway, since all of this footage is only going to be used on the web. So I spent the day filming pretty things and even got in the water once in awhile.<\/p>\n
I miss my family.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m surprised at what a homebody I\u2019ve become. But even being in a beautiful place like Kauai gets intensely lonely after a few days. Swimming in the ocean, even the very warm ocean around Kauai, is no big deal if you\u2019re doing it all by yourself.<\/p>\n
As soon as the sun goes down, I\u2019m back at the condo, and I\u2019m using the nighttime hours to rewrite my book.<\/p>\n
I wrote a book years ago, and it sucked. It was written in the first person, and it was essentially my autobiography if I had superpowers. It reads like a bad stand-up comedy routine \u2013 all jokes, no plot, and tediously self-indulgent. When I returned to it not too long ago, I came up with an actual idea to flesh out the story, and I added a villain, who I\u2019m finding more interesting than the main character. And it\u2019s all written in the third person now. I figure if Twilight can get published and sell millions, then so can this thing. That\u2019s my motivation as I press forward.<\/p>\n
The biggest problem with the book initially, I think, was the lack of a compelling villain. I thought I was being avant-garde and parodying superhero conventions by showing that if someone in the real world were actually to acquire the ability to flow and move mountains, there wouldn\u2019t have to be someone else with equal or greater powers to fight back.<\/p>\n
I wanted to show the absurdity of the genre\u2019s conventions and Make A Statement. That was my first, biggest mistake. It reminds me of my first season in Jackson Hole running a theatre, when I thought it would be a good idea to educate the audience to accept high quality, highbrow musicals rather than “pander” to them. So we produced The Mystery of Edwin Drood<\/span>, which musical theatre junkies love and audiences generally avoid. When we finally wised up and produced things like Annie Get Your Gun<\/span>, people showed up to fill the seats.<\/p>\n People watch the things they like, not the things you think they should. Funny how that works, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n \u201cEducating your audience\u201d is code for \u201calienating your audience.\u201d If you\u2019re going to be elitist and condescending, then people aren\u2019t going to bother listening to you. That\u2019s a lesson, incidentally, that Hollywood refuses to learn.<\/p>\n So now I\u2019m focused on writing an entertaining, readable story. No vampire lovin\u2019, either.<\/p>\n I\u2019m almost to 20,000 words. I hope to break 100,000 by the time I\u2019m through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sundaywas better than Saturday. I\u2019ve figured out a workaround for the video shoot \u2013 I\u2019m just not going to shoot in HD. That bugs me, but it\u2019s probably irrelevant anyway, since all of this footage is only going to be used on the web. So I spent the day filming pretty things and even got ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}