COFFEE KLATCH MONDAY ~ The Home Stretch

Well, I'm in the home stretch with book #3, the editing at my end.Yay!

Also, I have settled on a title. But I think I'll wait to reveal it for another time.

Meanwhile, I've decided I do want to go and see the new Johnny Depp movie "Dark Shadows". I'd like to see how the other cast members did their characters.

And I'm running a poll here again, this week, do stop over to my left sidebar and let me know if you are or are not going to go to the new Dark Shadows movie with Johnny Depp. I'd really like to see more people vote on this one. Doesn't matter your reasons. Mine is: Yes. I am Johnny Depp fan. I would like to see how/what they did with this movie, and how other actors played all the parts. It's really hard to determine the whole film from bits and pieces.

So, what are you up to today or this week? Anything new, anything going on in your lives you want to tell me about? You know I keep my eyes open for what you all are doing, and try to stop by at some point in the week.

See you out there in Blogger Land!

Poll Results In on Nicolas Cage/vampire poll & new poll on Dark Shadows movie

Hello, my pretties. How are you this weekend? I do hope you were able to stop by and visit me. I've had a poll up on Nicolas Cage this week, and it went into a three-way tie. Mainly because only 11 people voted. Shameful results. However I thank each and everyone of those of you who did partake. It was fun, wasn't it? I hope for a larger result on this next one.

Anyway, these are the results:
3 said Yes, I believe in vampires!
3 said No. But this is a good likeness
2 said Yep, he's totally a vampire (I think I voted on this one for giggles)
3 said: No. Just someone who looks like him...

Because the new movie with Johnny Depp in Dark Shadows is coming out next week, I thought I would do another poll. This one is simple, not as many answers. Just yes or no. It's over on the left hand side below the picture of Barnabas Collins played by Jonathan Frid, the original soap opera star, and Johnny Depp.

The latest Barnabas Collins/Johnny Depp pic

Had to share this as soon as I saw this. Yep. That's Johnny doing Banabas. Lovely long fingernails, hmmm?

I can't wait to see this movie. I'm hopeful it's out when I've got time off.

The Night Stalker Returns as a Film, and Paul Revere takes another ride?

Yep, that's right, my Musie friends. The 1972 made for TV movies and the ABCTV series called Kolchak: The Night Stalker, is being filmed and guess who is to play the dogged journalist/reporter, Carl Kolchak?

Johnny Depp.

Depp is filming both Dark Shadows and Night Stalker simultaniously. Which would have my head spinning wondering which character I was in. But hey, I'm sure Depp can pull it off.

He is also setting up to film Paul Revere movie for Disney about the Boston silversmith and that famous midnight ride, in which Depp will (of course) play Revere. Word is Lee and Janet Batcher (of Batman Forever), are writing the screenplay. So, if that works for you, I'm sure it will be good.

Also, insiders deny the rumors of a 5th Pirates of the Caribbean. Yeah, I heard someone say he was going to keep on making them too. Sooooorrrryyyyy. Depp himself said that he had pretty much exhausted the pirate, Jack Sparrow's character. Done that, now moving on to something with vampires and other supernatural things to scare us all. I hope!  

Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, Production to begin in April

I've been saying all along that Depp should play a vampire.

Well, I think I've got my wish come true. And it sounds brilliant to me. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are teaming up again, this time to do a film adaptation of the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, which aired from 1966-1971.

Depp says that playing Barnabas Collins is a life-long dream/obsession for the actor to portray. The original Collins in the moody, atmospheric soap opera was played by Jonathan Frid, and originally the part was intended to be short-lived. However Frid made quite a sensation in the daytime soap playing a 175-year-old vampire who stalks the town of Collinsport, Maine, pining for his lost love. As a result, this TV series went on for the next 4years, and has had a cult following ever since.

Depp explains that he was “...obsessed with Barnabas Collins. I have photographs of me holding his posters when I was five or six.” And now that Depp has finished up the Pirates of Caribbean playing Jack Sparrow—who he says the character can simply not go any further—he can begin the work on this film (I've not seen any up-dates on when, but it was said in April or May of 2011—I think!)

His thoughts on the recent up swing of interest in vampire movies and books is that it's like any folk or fairytale—it has a “power to it” . . . “There's something symbolic about it that touches people in different ways.”*

All the articles that I've been able to pull up have talked of a release in 2011, and if that holds true, it will be up against the final Twilight film “Breaking Dawn”. Unless, of course, they wait until the following year.

From another more current article I've just viewed, they have pushed back the production start until April.

Well, I can hardly wait. What about all of you???

*Quotes taken from original article from Yahoo Movies July of 2009

Super Suday Update

It's snowing here. But not as much as last week, thank goddess! And after this week, the temperatures will rise out of the teens and single digits, and we might someday see the end of Old Man Winter.

I see in news around the blog sphere that someone has finnally cast Johnny Depp as a vampire. I've always thought he would make a superb one. I've in fact cast him for the role as Jett Drakulya from my third book--but that's just my dream team.

The movie is a Dark Shadows remake and Eva Green has been cast to play Angelique. I think that her eyes are haunting, I'm sure she will make a wonderful Angelique. (I have not had a chance to investigate this, so give me a while, I'll get on this.)

I am currently doing pin-point edits on my second book. This involves going through with my "find and replace" option and finding certain words that I either use too much, or use and shouldn't use because of bad habits of writing. Like the word "just", or "so", or "very", and "suddenly"--the list goes on. Bad habits are hard to quit in writing.

As a matter of fact this brings up what I'm going to introduce to my blog. Not bad habits, so much, but something I will call "Frustrating The Writer".

This past week when I saw someone posting about one writer's use of adjectives throughout her books, I had a great idea for a new post. This blogger was wondering about this author's use of adjectives and how this very shameful rule-breaking was suddenly okay for this very famous writer. It came down to the fact that this was "her style" of writing. There is a big difference in what a writer's style becomes, and what rules they break. There's a thin line, in fact, when it comes to style and what is allowed.

My newest addition to Lorelei's Muse will be about rule-breaking in writing, not so much as to why they are broken, but there might be some of this as well. "Frustrating The Writer" will give my thoughts on this, and writing rules that best-selling authors break, and things I've seen, or experienced while trying to learn the craft. I hope to expose these rule breakers, explain a few and why they are frowned upon--or at least considered "pet-peeves" by agents and editors. My hope is to give any of you who are "new" to writing, or finding yourselves frustrated by the rules, that you need to understand that rules can be broken as long as we adhere to the most basic rules of grammar. Especially if you are trying to find your voice.

Well, that's it for my Super Sunday Update. If you are having a party today you are excused from visiting my blog until well after the guacamole dip and chili is consumed and the party favors are all picked up.(Wow, I actually knew how to spell guacamole--that's just wild!)