And you can be my cowgirl

[cyrano]

One of the important steps in NaNoWriMo, according to the book "No Plot, No Problem," is ensuring that you tell lots of people so there will be the potential for mocking if you decide to quit in week two.

So. I'm calling for a Cowboy Movie Day on Sunday 4 December to celebrate the finishing of my Deadlands-esq western novel. (It won out over the story about the secret agents who are hockey fans.)

I haven't yet nailed down the actual content of the day's viewing, but I suspect Tombstone will be part of it. Suggestions are welcome, as are Western-style potluck contributions and attendance.

Comments

[handworn.livejournal.com]

One of John Wayne's last is one of his best, The Shootist. It also has Lauren Bacall in it, a bonus.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hrmmm. I am almost entirely unfamiliar with his body of work.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

He plays a former gunslinger, decades after the West was the frontier-- 1903? Something like that-- who's now old and has cancer (as Wayne himself did at the time) and has come to the town more or less to die. Bacall is the boardinghouse landlady; Ron Howard plays her son, sort of worshipful of Wayne's character from all the dime novels he read. What Howard's character learns about how it really was is some of the best stuff in the picture. Good stuff.