Somehow I was unaware of the existence of this until now. JourneyQuest - Episode 1: Onward from the people behind THE GAMERS movies. THE GAMERS 2: DORKNESS RISING remains unashamedly one of my favourite movies of all time. (via Vince Keenan on FB)
You can only run away from something for a scene at most. Beyond that it loses its impact. Anything longer than that, your characters need to be running towards something instead.
Away from is reactive, a response to something rather than a determined choice: There’s a monster behind us and we don’t want to be eaten! AIIIEEE! It’s chasing us!
Towards is active and implies planning and forethought from the characters: We need to get to the evac point before the chopper leaves, and then we’ll have gotten away from the monster for good!
I may refer to this in future as the GET TO DA CHOPPA! rule.
ALEX SAYS THAT STEF AND KYLE HAVE TO COME SEE THIS. SHE SAYS SHE’S FOUND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE, AND IT’S NOTHING LIKE WHAT THEY SAW BACK IN THE OTHER NEIGHBOURHOOD (WHICH NEEDS A NAME BY THE WAY, JOHN).
I have, for a very loose value of “halfway” reached the halfway point on the current book.
I may, or may not, have written almost as many chapters as notes as I have in proper actual text.
This is not cheating.
NOT CHEATING.
The problem with movies today is not that “real” cinema-goers love garbage while critics only like poncy foreign language arthouse fare. The problem is that we’ve all learned to tolerate a level of overpaid, institutionalised corporate dreadfulness that no one actually likes but everyone meekly accepts because we’ve all been told that blockbuster movies have to be stupid to survive.
The team found several stars with surface temperatures over 40 000 degrees, more than seven times hotter than our Sun, and a few tens of times larger and several million times brighter. Comparisons with models imply that several of these stars were born with masses in excess of 150 solar masses. The star R136a1, found in the R136 cluster, is the most massive star ever found, with a current mass of about 265 solar masses and with a birthweight of as much as 320 times that of the Sun.
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