Not in my house!

From USA Today (12/6/2005):

Guess who’s coming for honey? As part of a barrel-full of Winnie the Pooh anniversary events, Disney is working on a new animated series that will replace Christopher Robin with a 6-year-old girl.

What is going on here? What happened to ‘if it ain’t broke’? I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised after Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, which sold off a big chunk of the wonder of the 100 Acre Wood. Of course, the real Christopher Robin would probably be happy to know he is being removed, but I doubt that had much to do with the decision to dump him. I’m happy to say that Rachel heard the stories from the books very early on. Sure I read them to her when she could barely understand them (and I still do). She even recognized some of the stories when she sees them in animated form.

A. A. Milne’s Pooh was not just for children, it was for everyone. Disney’s Pooh seems to be just for money.

More Progress

I’ve been doing some heavy shuffling of scenes to get them to fall into place. On the plus side, I think it’s made things more exciting. On the down side Chapter 6 now seems to be almost 9000 words long. It was already one of the longer chapters, and it now contains some of the sections I cut from earlier in the book. It’s not a huge deal. I just need to find the right place to split it.

Progress

I hoped to finish Chapter 6 this morning, but I went back over the first five chapters and plugged them into a calender to make sure all the times made sense. I had to make some adjustments, but now everything is falling into place where I had hoped.

Summer 782: Month 4 Calender

Chapter 5

Another chapter down. This is the first time in a while I’ve managed to have enough time during a weekday to get much done. I’m pretty sure that’s it for today. I need to come up with a title for this thing soon.

Chapter 3 done (maybe)

I moved about half of Chapter 3 to a spot later in the book, and rewrote the remains around it. The chapter that remains is a bit shorter than I’d like, but I’m not seeing any obvious way to remedy it, so it’s done for now. We’ll see what happens when I drop the other section back in.

Chapter 2 Revised

I got 24 pages revised. Not great, but it’s a start. That covers up to the end of Chapter 2. I removed a large section that was slowing things down.

I hoped to do more, but there a large section of Chapter 3 that needs to be moved to a later chapter, and I can’t find my stack of notecards for it. That’ll teach me to clean my desk! Hopefully I’ll get more time this afternoon and tackle the next bit. For now I’ve read it over so I can bounce it around in my head while doing other things.