You know, I am very impressed with us.
I am actually writing this on Sunday
instead of my usual Tuesday afternoon/night time slot because of my humbleness
of being one of the Lyons brothers. When we started this blog three months ago,
we were three different people, living in two different countries, writing
about three different lives. But on Friday, we found something that all of us
were invested in, the soundtrack to a amazing video game, and we all knuckled
down and collectively did something with that investment.
Sure, it’s only a review of a series of
BGM’s from a game that no-one played, but we came together to do it. We had a
common goal. We wanted to let go of our problems and petty little concerns, and
just spend a little while reveling in something we were passionate about. And
in that regard, I think we’ve never been closer as brothers.
And now that you’re both elated with praise
and feelings of brotherhood, my chapter is still not done. I’m sorry, but writing
a chapter is hard, and unlike you Dan, I don’t somehow get everything done to
the deadline. But in all fairness, Dan, why can we still not put up PDFs.
Seriously, this shouldn’t be hard. Make an account on the uploading website,
then upload the PDFs and put the link in a blog. Come one man, it’s only
slightly funny. In a few weeks, it’s gonna have reduced to a slight giggle, and
no-one wants the slight giggle, they want the full raucous laugh.
Theme of the Week:
This weeks theme draws on something quite
relevant to us, brothers. Each of us has to describe a well known, or high
achieving pair of brothers in their chosen field (books, movies, music) and
talk about them and their brotherhood. Or just their work… that’ll probably be
easier.
Author brothers are hard to come by, and
usually they don’t work on the same book, but the pair of brothers I’m going
with are:
The Brothers Grimm.
Born in Germany 13 months apart (as opposed
to our 4 and 6 year separations) from each other, they led very interesting
lives. Wilhelm, the older, was like a father to his younger brother Jacob for a
lot of their adolescence. They supported one another and were very close in
their studies and hobbies. They didn’t write all of their work, but collected
and rewrote for a modern audience a great number of classical German fables,
folklore and fairytales. Writing for children is the kind of thing that you can
only do when you have very eager support. In the mind of an author, a
particular event or action can seem totally child friendly, because in the
author’s mind, the emotions are a certain way, and the thoughts of the
characters are a certain way, but in reality, it might just be horrible and
give children nightmares. The fact that the two worked together so closely and
for so many years is absolutely remarkable. These days, things like sibling
rivalry and alpha male competition and many first world distractions almost
ensures that this would never happen. But here we have two brothers who both
wanted to collect and present these classical stories, and by supporting each
other and working together, they successfully put together some of the most
well known stories today. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Rumpelstiltskin,
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and many others.
Those are my writer brothers. It just shows
that when brothers really work at having a strong relationship, being in each
lives, and supporting each other, great things can come of it.
I’ll hear about your brothers in the next
couple days.
R. A. Lyons.
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