Ten Inch Hero

Is that a great title or what?

TEN INCH HERO

A New Movie About Love, Sex, and Sandwiches Sold by the Inch

Starring
Elisabeth Harnois, Clea DuVall, Sean Patrick Flanery,
Jensen Ackles, and Danneel Harris
With Alice Krige and John Doe

And it has its very own blog!

If you want to see what’s up with this movie and read how it was made and behind the scenes stuff, that’s your place.

And of course the blog is written by the fab screenwriter of the movie, Betsy!

It seems that Jensen Ackles fans are going kinda crazy trying to figure out how he changed from this:

To a multi-pierced, mohawked … well, I’ll let Betsy describe “Priestly” in her own words:

“Priestly…well, he’s one in a million. Thank God. He sports an ever-changing mohawk (both style and color), and endless assortment of ignorant t-shirts (”Orgasm Donor” “Save a tree, eat a beaver” ). He’s even been known to get in touch with his feminine side by wearing a kilt. He believes Elvis is alive, that the government killed John Lennon, and that Kurt killed himself just to get away from Courtney because, jeebus, who wouldn’t? But under the piercings and the tats and the tude, he’s a fiercely loyal friend, and he’s hopelessly in love. Good lord, he even buys tampons to impress her, but, sadly, she can’t see past the boy to find the man waiting inside. “

And all of his fans are going wild, looking for images of Jensen with a mohawk and piercings, and THIS is all they’ve found so far….

How wicked!

And don’t miss the official movie site.

Why keep talking about it?

Why do I keep talking about nanowrimo when I’m not doing it myself? Jealousy. Sheer jealousy. The entire endeavor seems so divinely insane and wonderfully fulfilling. Someday I’ll do it, but I’m simply incapable of multitasking writing projects and can’t stop what I’m working on now to take on nanowrimo.

So yes, I’m jealous of those who are doing it, and will be jealous throughout the month. They share the endeavor on the nanwrimo bulletin boards if they want. They meet up at coffee shops and silently write together. They turn writing into a festive occasion, a marathon of joy.

Why would somebody want to write a novel in 30 days? There are many reasons, but I think a large part of it can be explained by Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird, Some Instructions on Writing and Life.

But I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do–the actual act of writing–turns out to be the best part. It’s like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremnoy for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

If the idea tickles your fancy even a little … why not?

You can do it. I know you can.

As long as you don’t mind if I envy you bunches (and, okay, hate you just a little).

naNO/SCRIwrimo, part the twoth

First (my thanks to Kelly who posted in comments) the nanowrimo people are hosting a script writing competition, and what we were calling nascriwrimo has a name of its very own, and month of its very own, too!

JUNE.

In other news, at least two of you (MrsHarris and MrsWonderful) have stepped up to the plate to write a novel in November. Write like goddesses!

And as Mr. Drama Queen Heathcliff reminds us in comments here, HE is the one who first pointed out to screenwriters on the nicholl scribes email list that the Absolute Write site is sponsoring an impromptu November nascriwrimo to coincide with nanowrimo! (Heh.) So anybody in that one? Write like gods and goddesses! (Not to be confused with “Write like God” which is a patented, trademarked and otherwise audacious expression perfected by the Goddess, herself, Max!)

Writers Who Love House…

…and some fans, too, will want to read a blog entry I singled out as an “Individual Post of Merit.”

See? That’s what you get for not noticing the new category when I changed formats! It’s been there for awhile, but you didn’t notice, so now I’ll be nice and POINT IT OUT TO YOU:

from a writer of House about writing an episode of House

And the rest of you can enjoy looking at Hugh Laurie.

Or better yet, watch the show. It’s available on netflix.

Or even better yet, own your own!

Season One

Season Two

Smooooch!

In a fit of passion, Parcells kissed every player in sight. Terrell Owens. Keith Davis. Keyshawn Johnson.
They were all victims of the Cowboys’ very own Kissing Bandit.
“I’ll take my hat off to my kids tonight,” Parcells said. “They fought back. They fought their guts out.”

Matt Mosley, The Dallas Morning News

And darn it, I can’t find pics of any of them. (I saw it, though. I mean, who could miss, the way NBC kept showing those smooches, over and over again?)

Dallas Cowboys — 35
Carolina Panthers — 14

That cute little Tony Romo may just be able to play QB after all.