High on the list of things I will never do but which fascinate and astound me is this, done by an amazing bunch of people.
Harry Potter in Minecraft.
Meanwhile, I’m posting today at Fatal Foodies on the subject of a risotto we had the other night.
A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: What imaginary structure or world would you like someone to build in Minecraft, so you could fly around in it?
MA
Dan Antion
April 18, 2017 at 8:07amOK, this one is one degree of separation farther than I can go. I don’t play Minecraft, but I can generally follow you around there. However, I might be the only person on the planet that didn’t read Harry Potter.
Marian Allen
April 18, 2017 at 8:19amNot to be hipster, but I got onto Harry Potter before it was published in America, through being a word geek. I read an article on the Books page of a newspaper about the words and phrases that had to be “translated” from English English into American English. The story sounded interesting, so I bought the first book. Then my grandkids got hooked and I read the whole series so I’d have something to talk to them about. Speaking as a writer, I think Rowling did an absolutely brilliant job.
Dan Antion
April 18, 2017 at 8:24amI’m kind of an anti-hipster. I pretty much avoid anything that gains rapid strong popularity. When the first book started getting some press, I thought about reading it. Once everybody started talking about it, I decided to pass. It hurts me greatly when playing Trivia Crack with my daughter, but otherwise, I see no ill-effect.
Marian Allen
April 18, 2017 at 8:37amOnly two: Sometimes you miss something good, and sometimes it’s fun to join a general dialog. Charlie is just like you in that popularity puts him off. I’m willing to read or see something popular if it sounds good. I still haven’t read, nor do I intend to read, 50 Shades of Gray. I read the first Twilight book, but not the rest of them. I think writers should read the Harry Potter series because of all the wonderful writery things Rowling gets up to. Non-writers, no harm in giving it a miss, if increasingly dark fantasy with decreasing amounts of whimsey is not your thing.
Dan Antion
April 18, 2017 at 9:06am“…with decreasing amounts of whimsey” Sounds too much like my first marriage 😉
Marian Allen
April 18, 2017 at 2:45pmLOL #funnynotfunny