tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post1339931594065034681..comments2024-03-28T20:35:37.931-04:00Comments on Hamlette's Soliloquy: AMA Answers #3: Jessica Prescott, Natalie, and Gabby A.Hamlette (Rachel)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-53003297366664394512017-11-20T18:47:37.601-05:002017-11-20T18:47:37.601-05:00Natalie, no worries! I'm really busy right no...Natalie, no worries! I'm really busy right now too -- took me two days to reply to this.<br /><br />Glad you enjoyed this! Including the vlog. <br /><br />So funny we both have used Linden as a name, and gotten it from an actual place.<br /><br />Definitely read some Sherlock Holmes! I recommend starting either with <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> or <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-81176383578972601042017-11-18T17:02:48.110-05:002017-11-18T17:02:48.110-05:00First off, I'm VERY sorry for how late this co...First off, I'm VERY sorry for how late this comment is!!<br /><br />Second, I LOVED your answers to my questions (and your answers to other people's questions). Thank you!! <br /><br />Heehee. Your reference to Alan Ladd made me smile. :)<br /><br />Ahhh your vlog is SO fun! I really enjoyed hearing your voice and seeing you. I loved your answer to the character-names question. I've Nataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315660089925645214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-60682964024122540472017-11-08T19:42:25.310-05:002017-11-08T19:42:25.310-05:00Quiggy, yeah, I wouldn't just do vlogs in plac...Quiggy, yeah, I wouldn't just do vlogs in place of movie reviews or anything. But I could see doing one for part of a movie-themed tag post or something.<br /><br />They don't have livermush in Texas? Huh. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermush" rel="nofollow">Here, this will explain</a> it for you. I see from that article that it's most commonly found in western North Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-63365053826972909752017-11-08T09:52:08.904-05:002017-11-08T09:52:08.904-05:00Phyl, that's awesome! Good horse names, too.Phyl, that's awesome! Good horse names, too. Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-83460756108382604082017-11-08T00:28:44.782-05:002017-11-08T00:28:44.782-05:00Love Bree!! My cousin gave me a quirky little stuf...Love Bree!! My cousin gave me a quirky little stuffed horse for Christmas one year and I named it Bree. And if I ever owned horses I would name one Caspian and the other Bree :)Phylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08726532398377237606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-4729484098548659152017-11-06T10:56:58.689-05:002017-11-06T10:56:58.689-05:00*nods* I think so :-) *nods* I think so :-) Katie Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818413749107653398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-64641727316436429382017-11-06T09:07:24.747-05:002017-11-06T09:07:24.747-05:00I think you're just very visually oriented and...I think you're just very visually oriented and process life and stories in a different way than I do, and that's all there is to it :-)Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-41688300061219807152017-11-05T19:00:44.049-05:002017-11-05T19:00:44.049-05:00The other thing that keeps me from doing it is it ...The other thing that keeps me from doing it is it is specifically a movie blog. If I ever decided to fire up my old random entries blog I might do it there. But that one has been dormant for about 6 years and I was really burnt out on it when I stopped.<br /><br />Got a question for you I just noticed in your comments above. What in the name of Hubert T. Gigglesnort is "livermush"?Quiggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12434473473185065992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-46508479016428677032017-11-05T18:22:17.316-05:002017-11-05T18:22:17.316-05:00Yes. I couldn't associate numbers or shapes w...Yes. I couldn't associate numbers or shapes with anything--but colors, definitely. Especially stories. Stories ARE colors, for me, in a sense. <br /><br />Hmmmmmmmmmm. See, for me, the costumes definitely matter--but not so much in a "period accuracy" kind of way. I just want to be able to ENJOY how they look--I want them to look GOOD. Except in very rare cases, I'm not Katie Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818413749107653398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-26478036521587541512017-11-05T17:25:07.640-05:002017-11-05T17:25:07.640-05:00Okay, so associating colors with other things I do...Okay, so associating colors with other things I do get, cuz I do that too. I could associate a color (or a number, or a shape) with just about any person, place, thing, or idea, or even with words, if you wanted me to. I would say greeny-brown for Tolkien, which are warm, comforting earth tones to me. <br /><br />I do agree that the external details affect the mood of a story. Sometimes I'Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-23419907430941911042017-11-05T16:42:58.321-05:002017-11-05T16:42:58.321-05:00To me . . . color is part of the story. I'm n...To me . . . color <i>is</i> part of the story. I'm not really sure how to explain it; but the colors and visuals in a movie get wrapped up with the characters and the themes and the dialogue in this sort of web, and that web IS the story. You can't untangle it. (For me, that is.) So if I don't like the colors, or the costumes, or any other part of the aesthetic--it's Katie Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818413749107653398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-33888615658658851072017-11-05T16:09:37.981-05:002017-11-05T16:09:37.981-05:00Well, Jessica, back in college, one of my lit prof...Well, Jessica, back in college, one of my lit professors told someone that I watch movies the way other people read books. And a couple of years later, a co-worker told me that they loved watching me read books while eating lunch in the break room because I read books the way other people watch movies. <br /><br />To me, they're the same process. One might give me more details, or a Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-66396273112525898432017-11-05T15:58:26.825-05:002017-11-05T15:58:26.825-05:00Thanks, Regine :-)Thanks, Regine :-)Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-5042691790618729922017-11-05T13:30:53.701-05:002017-11-05T13:30:53.701-05:00Oh, yes. We get alllllllllllllllll the Biblical n...Oh, yes. We get alllllllllllllllll the Biblical names here. It's quite fun. <br /><br />Really?!? Wow! To me, it's just a natural way of judging and appreciating movies--because, for me, a movie is a <i>visual</i> and aesthetic experience almost before it's anything else. If I just wanted stories and characters, per se, I would read a book! But I watch movies because I want to Katie Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818413749107653398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-89910799492380666052017-11-05T10:21:12.516-05:002017-11-05T10:21:12.516-05:00Love. Love. R's Ruehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05711563217099699047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-62562912946956937242017-11-05T07:43:45.210-05:002017-11-05T07:43:45.210-05:00Jessica, well, that fits for the plottingest plott...Jessica, well, that fits for the plottingest plotter! <br /><br />I love all the cool Biblical names that still get used in the south. Levi and Seth and Micah...<br /><br />And to be honest, I'm really having trouble wrapping my head around the idea of a color used in a movie making someone like the movie better. Sometimes a color gets used in a movie and then I start liking it better (I&#Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-83665548768586167172017-11-05T07:38:48.622-05:002017-11-05T07:38:48.622-05:00Quiggy, haha! Yeah, you do take that chance. I&#...Quiggy, haha! Yeah, you do take that chance. I've done one or two AMAs before, and people generally ask very random, fun things like "What's your favorite salad dressing?" and "Do you have any tattoos?" and "If you could only take one book to a desert island, which would you take?" Though I got a couple more serious questions too.<br /><br />I haven't Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-23729277786810188592017-11-05T07:37:06.560-05:002017-11-05T07:37:06.560-05:00Elanor, Edmund fans unite! I know a lot of people...Elanor, Edmund fans unite! I know a lot of people don't like him, but... I'm a sucker for a good redemption arc.<br /><br />Naming characters is something we could probably just write whole giant reams of blog posts about -- I've never yet met two writers who do it quite the same way! <br /><br />And yeah, I have this tendency to get all confused when I'm talking out loud and Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-23429205804646929052017-11-05T07:34:09.891-05:002017-11-05T07:34:09.891-05:00Aha! I have a lot of friends right now who are th...Aha! I have a lot of friends right now who are the same height as I am, so I kind of feel very average and forget that I'm tallish. <br /><br />Oh, man, when I was a kid, my brother and I would belt songs from musicals and oldies in public and have the best time!<br /><br />So, so cool you did English Country Dancing. I did a bunch of research on different dances when I was writing <i>Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-1656147000522194622017-11-04T19:50:30.996-04:002017-11-04T19:50:30.996-04:00I'm almost afraid to do this basically because...I'm almost afraid to do this basically because I don't know what kind of questions I's get. Oddball questions would be easy. The hard ones would be like "what is your philosophical view on life?" BTW, just on the subject of Christianity, I checked out C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity on MP3 from the library today and am finally going to go through it.Quiggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12434473473185065992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-66423861892147081412017-11-03T23:17:01.454-04:002017-11-03T23:17:01.454-04:00*'It' was 40-something... I hate when I ma...*'It' was 40-something... I hate when I make typos like that.Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02706446800236191077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-12632792243802010232017-11-03T23:15:22.117-04:002017-11-03T23:15:22.117-04:00(Edmund is my favorite character from Narnia, so i...(Edmund is my favorite character from Narnia, so it makes me happy when other people love him, too!:)<br /><br />I loved your talk about names. I am pretty name-obsessed myself, and it's one of the most important things for me when I am writing a story. Sometimes I hear a name and a character forms in my head around that name and the story actually comes afterwards. <br /><br />Sherlock isMariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02706446800236191077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-79652457176682233212017-11-03T21:34:55.997-04:002017-11-03T21:34:55.997-04:00I know, right??? I didn't quite realize HOW s...I know, right??? I didn't quite realize HOW systematic I was about it--religious, almost--until I started thinking about it and comparing it to other people's processes. I guess it goes with my "plottingest plotter" [thanks for that nickname, lol] nature; I just have to have a system for everything. <br /><br />Jedediah! That's a neat name. It's also a name I had Katie Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818413749107653398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-8207918203545291242017-11-03T20:41:38.788-04:002017-11-03T20:41:38.788-04:00I think I am quite average in height, I just have ...I think I am quite average in height, I just have a LOT of tall friends and cousins! (You know, up around the 6 foot mark...)<br /><br />Agreed about Watson! They HAVE to get him right.<br /><br />Haha, I sing in public too. XD Once, my younger brother (7 yrs) was with me waiting for family members using the dressing rooms in Target, and we were sitting just outside the dressing rooms, and Gabby A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02094981984519672898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-77884757933545641282017-11-03T19:57:15.248-04:002017-11-03T19:57:15.248-04:00Gabby, barefooted people for the win! I do wear s...Gabby, barefooted people for the win! I do wear sandals on hot surfaces like asphalt during the summer. And, you know, there are all those pesky laws about having to wear shoes in public places. <br /><br />The average height for American women is 5'4", so you're juuust slightly below average. When we lived in Connecticut, I always felt very tall because there were a LOT of shortHamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.com