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owlectomyI'm at 29,000 words. Yes, this is me feeling like I'm finally getting traction and making progress!
I think I'm going to babble superlatively some more about The Anime Machine later. Today is not the day. However, it became clear almost as soon as I started reading it that with Sparks and Ashes I'm trying to "think technology" in a bit of the same way as some of Miyazaki's movies, or some of these other anime that deal with collisions between tradition or the environment and the technical/scientific -- and so Lamarre's book, especially its sharp and lengthy analysis of Laputa: Castle in the Sky, is clarifying a lot of things in my own mind. His book is very much focused on the question of how animation as animation (not just as texts, not just as narratives) deals with these questions, so it's not something I can directly transfer to my own writing, but I keep saying, "Oh, that's why X wasn't working, it's because it totally falls apart thematically."
I think I'm going to babble superlatively some more about The Anime Machine later. Today is not the day. However, it became clear almost as soon as I started reading it that with Sparks and Ashes I'm trying to "think technology" in a bit of the same way as some of Miyazaki's movies, or some of these other anime that deal with collisions between tradition or the environment and the technical/scientific -- and so Lamarre's book, especially its sharp and lengthy analysis of Laputa: Castle in the Sky, is clarifying a lot of things in my own mind. His book is very much focused on the question of how animation as animation (not just as texts, not just as narratives) deals with these questions, so it's not something I can directly transfer to my own writing, but I keep saying, "Oh, that's why X wasn't working, it's because it totally falls apart thematically."
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