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[cactuswatcher]

Well, I've accomplished something more than those 40,000 words in about three weeks. I finished the first part of the book. The question now is how to make the rest of it click so it's not all anticlimax. The focus is shifting. The action is changing from mass action to personal. I expect the going to become slower.

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ETA Is anyone else sad that in the new James Bond flick Casino Royale that the game has been changed from baccarat to Texas Hold-em' Poker? Granted the poker game probably does take more skill than baccarat. Baccarat is mostly luck and card counting. But Texas Hold-em' does seem to be a shift from the sophisticated past of Bond to trying to appeal to the Billy Bob set.

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[anneth.livejournal.com]

Good heavens, that is an impressive achievement!

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[anneth.livejournal.com]

Welcome! I didn't realize they'd changed the card-game. I suppose they didn't think enough of their target audience would know what baccarat is?

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I think Fleming used baccarat in the first place, because not everyone did. It was something only cool rich folks played in exotic places.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

See, hey! The non-NaNo was good for something!

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Texas hold 'em thing has been bothering me since I learned about it yesterday. I suppose it's not as bad as Never Say Never Again, where the producers replaced baccarat with playing a video game, but then if "not as bad as Never Say Never Again" is the best one can say about the movie then there's no real point to seeing it.

[anneth.livejournal.com]

Heh. Fortunately, no one's saying that about the movie as a whole.