Nice video. Agree with your comments about the BBC Sherlock and competency of the Sherlock character in that show (no take-away from Cumberbatch's masterful acting)
Thanks! That show really jumped the shark with how season 2 ended and season 3 began. Granted, Arthur Conan Doyle also killed off Sherlock before bringing him back later (because money), so I suppose the show was kind of following the source material that way lol. But yes, Cumberbatch was excellent in the role regardless of the show's overall quality.
I've never watched Sherlock with Bendyboat Cucumberslap, but I've heard good things. Also, I think it would be interesting to have a character with zero competency who somehow gets lucky and gets assistance from other characters to progress through the story, perhaps building some small competency along the way. You know, the lovable loser who somehow comes out on top. Another thought: you said "living character", but I can imagine a short story being written from the perspective of an inanimate object (say, a clock on a wall that "watches" the events of the short story unfold in the room, with the reader using events in the room to extrapolate the in-between pieces of the story). Does this seem wild?
"The Lovable Loser Who Somehow Comes out on Top" is what I hope to one day call my memoir haha. To your second point, that's absolutely doable. A clock on the wall is definitely inanimate, but if we're in its point of view, I would say it's "alive" for the purposes of the story, because it providing the narration anthropomorphizes it, even if in a small way. After all, an accurate story told by a clock would be a blank page lol.
@@BrandonsWritingRoom I think we found your memoir title, lol. But for the clock, I mean even if you did anthropomorphize it, I would classify it as unliving. "The clock ticked on, angrily protesting Hugh's ignorance of the time." If you do something like that, I still see it as inanimate and unliving, in my opinion. But I'm not an author nor writer.
“It’s more than 0”. I felt that. I like these writing video. My journey feels less lonely. I also learn new stuff.
Great video!
Glad to hear it! If you ever need someone to bounce ideas off of, I'm game.
Nice video. Agree with your comments about the BBC Sherlock and competency of the Sherlock character in that show (no take-away from Cumberbatch's masterful acting)
Thanks! That show really jumped the shark with how season 2 ended and season 3 began. Granted, Arthur Conan Doyle also killed off Sherlock before bringing him back later (because money), so I suppose the show was kind of following the source material that way lol. But yes, Cumberbatch was excellent in the role regardless of the show's overall quality.
I've never watched Sherlock with Bendyboat Cucumberslap, but I've heard good things. Also, I think it would be interesting to have a character with zero competency who somehow gets lucky and gets assistance from other characters to progress through the story, perhaps building some small competency along the way. You know, the lovable loser who somehow comes out on top.
Another thought: you said "living character", but I can imagine a short story being written from the perspective of an inanimate object (say, a clock on a wall that "watches" the events of the short story unfold in the room, with the reader using events in the room to extrapolate the in-between pieces of the story). Does this seem wild?
"The Lovable Loser Who Somehow Comes out on Top" is what I hope to one day call my memoir haha. To your second point, that's absolutely doable. A clock on the wall is definitely inanimate, but if we're in its point of view, I would say it's "alive" for the purposes of the story, because it providing the narration anthropomorphizes it, even if in a small way. After all, an accurate story told by a clock would be a blank page lol.
@@BrandonsWritingRoom I think we found your memoir title, lol. But for the clock, I mean even if you did anthropomorphize it, I would classify it as unliving. "The clock ticked on, angrily protesting Hugh's ignorance of the time." If you do something like that, I still see it as inanimate and unliving, in my opinion. But I'm not an author nor writer.