Vader182 wrote: ↑

May 6th, 2019, 7:17 pm

I just finished Dune finally, I've been saving the last bit for when I could get through it in one sitting.

Denis is gunna rip that shit up

alternatively, I am nervous for the backlash for a white dude

leading tons of brown people to a great victory.

-Vader

Cilogy wrote: ↑

May 6th, 2019, 7:14 pm

started Jurassic Park, and I'm sorta shocked by how heady and meticulously "scientific" it is, I mean, relatively

and I have to admit even the "World" movies seem to capture the spirit of the crossroads between corporate/capitalist interest and advanced science and the inherent dangers that Crichton made clear

I mean at the core of it, it seems to be a giant allegory for personal wealth investment gone haywire and gross corporate incompetence

Vader182 wrote: ↑

May 6th, 2019, 7:17 pm

I just finished Dune finally, I've been saving the last bit for when I could get through it in one sitting.

Denis is gunna rip that shit up

alternatively, I am nervous for the backlash for a white dude

leading tons of brown people to a great victory.

-Vader

There's a sign in Danielle Steel's office that reads, "There are no miracles. There is only discipline." It's a dutiful message, and yet the sheer amount that Steel has accomplished in her five-decade career does seem like the stuff of dreams.

Let's look at the numbers, shall we? The author has written 179 books, which have been translated into 43 languages. Twenty-two of them have been adapted for television, and two of those adaptations have received Golden Globe nominations. Steel releases seven new novels a year—her latest, Blessing in Disguise, is out this week—and she's at work on five to six new titles at all times. In 1989 Steel was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having a book on the New York Times best-seller list for the most consecutive weeks of any author—381, to be exact. To pull it off, she works 20 to 22 hours a day. (A few times a month, when she feels the crunch, she spends a full 24 hours at her desk.)

Steel writes in her home office. Most of the time, that's San Francisco, but sometimes she's at her house in Paris. Wherever she is, she writes on her 1946 Olympia standard typewriter, which she's nicknamed Olly. "Olly's a big, heavy machine and it's older than I am," Steel tells Glamour. "It has a very smooth flow to it and I can't write on anything else. I have anywhere between 12 to 15 of them that I've bought over the years, but they're not good enough to work on. I keep them for parts in case there's ever a problem, because this is a very endangered species!" Steel is a creature of habit. She gets to her office—down the hall from her bedroom—by 8:00 A.M., where she can often be found in her cashmere nightgown. In the morning she'll have one piece of toast and an iced decaf coffee (she gave up full-throated caffeine 25 years ago). As the day wears on, she'll nibble on miniature bittersweet chocolate bars. "Dead or alive, rain or shine, I get to my desk and I do my work. Sometimes I'll finish a book in the morning, and by the end of the day, I've started another project," Steel says.