Happy Towel Day! · 2:57pm May 25th, 2012
Blah blah delays blah blah apologies blah blah busy blah blah. Whatever, you have heard it all before. I take more than a month to type out barely over 2,000 words, I bitch a bit about how busy I am, you all read the chapter and the get on with your lives. La dee da. Except this time, Towel Day happened. I donned my dressing gown, turned the lights off, grasped my mug of tea, set “Journey of the Sorcerer” to loop and held my muse at gunpoint until it did something for me. At the time of writing, Towel Day has just ended. If you don't know what it is, it is an annual day of celebration for fans of Douglas Adam's amazing work, and a day on which noone should be without their towel. Hopefully I will get i back from my excellent proofreader before towel day is over for all of you johnny-come-lately yanks.
Wow. Englishism right there. Do you have the phrase "johnny-come-lately" in America? I don't think anyone in England really says it anymore, much less so in my home here in Australia. I think I may be a bit peculiar.
Good news on the future update front, the holidays will begin in just a few weeks, during which I will have no study, almost no work, almost no parades and nothing to stop me from dedicating my time to finishing this story on a real high note. Well, I may be all different kinds of passed out with various friends, but I will nonetheless do my utmost to bring you the gift of pony a little bit more regularly.
Oh, and I have bought a copy of "And Another Thing". My opinion.... ehhhhhh. I can't say it's bad, but it hasn't made me laugh out loud yet, and frankly that was always the point. I can;t count the number of times I would laugh out loud at the originals, and then look around to see if anyone was there to ask me what was so funny, just so I could repeat it to them. This new one hasn't done that to me yet. It has good bits, but it just doesn't feel as sharp as Douglas Adams. Not to say it isn't funny in parts, or that it isn't basically well written, but... eh, I don;t know. I'm no reviewer.
It feels like a fan-fiction in a way. A good fan-fiction, probably better than my own, but still just that bit off. There's too much of it which feels like it's just tied to the original, with not enough new stuff thrown in. It's ok to reference the older works, but the fact that almost every race he has mentioned so far already came from the previous books makes it feel a bit less fresh than it could have been, especially when he's bringing up a new fact that doesn't NEED to be about a previously established species.
Anyone else read it, and ready to offer an opinion?
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I read it. I felt the same way. It lacked the magic that made The Guide funny. Like taking Stary Night and recreating it in crayon.
I'm actually enjoying your fan fic more then the last two books of the Guide series. The humor in And another thing felt a bit force and the plot was kinda meh.
You fanfic manages to combine ponies and Hitchhiker's guide pretty well, while keeping that whimsical nonsense that is kinda lost in the last two Guide books.
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Thanks for that, I do my best. My favourite thing about the first three books (radio series in my case) was always the way the universe seemed to be huge, uncaring and nonsensical. It was actually pretty dark, but still was, as you say, whimsical.