I dunno about the rest of you but the catastrophic events this article portrays sounds sounds so neat!
If you ever wanted a 5 minute intro for an end of the world movie that thar Super Colider is it.
Archive for Writing
The NaNoWrimo Site appears to have stabilized itself.
If you’re looking for a writing project in November, want to meet interesting people and come home smelling like you work at a Starbucks then NaNoWrimo is for you.
In other writing news, myself, Paul and new co-writer are writing a 30min Television Drama Spec in the vein of Entourage. In doing so it’s time to start looking for an Agent.
Good news is “Off The Post…” is already finished.
Bad news is: Well, too many to number.
And, lastly, The O’Hare Dare Prologue will be going out to the usual editors shortly. PDF File forth coming…
Denis Mcgrath’s blog Dead Things on Sticks posted a lovely post about storytelling from Ira Glass.
I’d embed the four videos but I think links are better so:
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4
Great videos.
I haven’t posted much about Gehma or BMB for a bit so here’s a quick update of sorts:
Gehma
I’m still writing background for Gehma characters and in doing so decided to re-write the beginning story arc a bit. I think it’ll help establish things before dumping our heroes into the fire. And, with re-writing I came up with a good name for the first Arc: Broken Road Unending.
I’m up in the air on how I want to set up things, either write 22-24 pages worth of story as if it was an comic book issue then collect 12 of those into an arc/trade paperback or just write it willy nilly.
Personally, I think the 22-24 pages/12 issues would be good if we ever collect it into a trade paperback.
Granted, that’s a lot to think a head about but I want to make sure there are guidelines now instead of later when the shit hits the fan.
Blood, Milk and Blood
Nothing much.
Which sucks, actually.
I’m still editing the first 40 pages. I may start flip flopping what I work on every other week. Gehma is more time consuming then BMB.
Paul C offered to be cover artist for the book.
I want to get this finished by the next NaNoWrimo.
Time to put ass in seat and write…
Time to finish Bread, Milk and Blood: A tale of Zzzooommmbbbiiieeesss in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations…
I’ve changed themes a bit, this one comes up in IE just as easily as Firefox and I don’t mind the color scheme, either.
For those fans of Paul C, the Cartoon Frolics Website has been moved over entirely to the new server and Paul’s Gallery Page has brand new spankin’ images. Old Images will be moved over bit by bit without any text across the images themselves per Paul’s request.
Also, if anyone is on Daz 3d’s Artzone.com site, Paul’s member site is here. He’ll be cross posting images whenever they become available.
We both liked the Gehma one sheet so more one sheets featuring each character are on tap for the new year…
Welcome to Gehma is still in the building phases. And, with the place holder image having been up for a bit, I decided to play around with a design for a one sheet.
First things, first, background image isn’t ours, I grabbed it from the BBC’s Space and Nature Website and all of the fonts can be found for free at Blambot, a good site for free fonts and word balloons.
The verbiage will probably stay the same. The background will probably be switched before it gets posted to the website proper.
Thoughts, comments, suggestions are welcome.
Unlike my Serenity/Firefly 2005 NaNoWrimo Novel entitled Leaves on the Wind, I won’t be posting the rest of BMB online.
I’m going to be finishing the novel and will be sending out query letters once I’m ready. One of my co-workers whose read one of my other scripts thought the title was disgusting (in a good way), so that’s a step in the right direction right there.
With NaNoWrimo behind us it’s time to refocus on Welcome to Gehma.
I spent sometime during the last few NaNoWrimo Write Ins going over my 2004 NaNoWrimo Novel called Gehma: A Rider’s Tale that Welcome to Gehma is based on and I’ve been hacking away at the overview chapters and adding more to the already 55k word count.
Looking back on the novel there is no hook in the beginning of the novel, it’s a lot of cold, info dumping that doesn’t need to be there. Granted some of it needs to be there to explain things but taking a page from my screenwriting misadventures: Hook them in the first 5 pages.
I think once I get some of the info dump narrowed down I have a scene that should hook people.
I’ll be seeing Paul C today, if he has any Gehma images I can pass along you will be the first to know.
Also, any of the inner circle of friends/editors feel like giving the first thirty-nine pages a once over with their red pens are more than welcome to tear it apart.
PS: For those Whovians in the USA: The Doctor Who Original Television Soundtrack CD is worth the money.
Things have gone from bad to worse for Kaavya Viswanathan.
It’s odd how in Hollywood, when two movies comes out that are similar in nature like A Bug’s Life and Antz, The Wild and Madagascar, Deep Impact and Armegeddon, no one really bats an eye. Hollywood being the crapshoot that it is, everyone and their cousin has seen so many scripts come across their desks you really can’t say someone stole your script since someone in Montana, no word of lie, came up with the same script.
And, it gets spookier when identical characters and events start appearing, too.
But, when you plagerize another author’s novel, it’s a whole different ball of wax.
James Cameron having to give credit to Harlan Ellison for Terminator 1 is probably the closest plagerism suit I can think of where the author won out and it wasn’t later reversed.
Da Vinci Code’s Dan Brown managed to get himself out unscathed. But, oddly enough, Kaavya isn’t as lucky.
It’s hard to come up with something that hasn’t been done yet. The old addage being Hollywood just keeps rehashing old plots seems somewhat acurate when you count the number times William Shakespeare’s Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet has been made into a movie.
When you jettison everything you built your idea upon, the little in jokes, the “ohmage” to your favorite novels and televsion shows and force yourself to fill in the blanks yourself then you can slowly start calling yourself a writer.
Many of posters on the message boards figure Kaavya is finished as a writer.
Personally, I think if she takes a few years off to gather together a new idea and she might have a chance to redeem herself. She’s young enough and relatively unknown to most people to dismiss the errors as stress under pressure.
I’ve moved the Phantom Riders On-Line Comic, here to the front page. Update your bookmarks. It won’t be moving again. Time to starting using this domain properly.
I wish I could say update your RSS Feeds as well, but the comic’s RSS Feed is still fubarred and it’s not on my end it’s the coding.
Hopefully the XComic Guys will correct this oversight shortly, after become so accustomed to an RSS Feed I suddenly know what a smoker feels like going cold turkey.
I’ve also taken down Gehma: A Riders Tale story due to it and the On-Line Comic will not be a complete Adaptation more like a Based On. I will revisit the Story to flesh it out more, toss the twenty pages of synopsis and overwrite it properly into a Lord of the Rings-like tome it deserves.
For an idea of what the art is going to look like check out Paul C’s Cafepress Store.
As we get more images together we are planning to open a Store first to get the word out, posters, t-shirts and the like. Bookmark that site too.
Now, off to bed…
(x-posted from my LJ Blog)
Back in college when dinosaurs roamed the Earth (I can say that now, I’m 31 in August), I wrote into the Amateur Creators Union (which oddly enough had Paul C’s Artwork in it) about the Robotech Fanfics I had written and how I wanted to get them published.
Their simple response in twenty words or less was: It’s copywrited, write your own.
I’m glad I listened to them.
The fanfics aka “The Stories” my then and current editor has called them have turned out better standing on their own feet, even if they’re unpublished.
Now I just need to stop strangle the english language and learn be cause is really one word.
Lori Jareo has yet to get that message, I guess…but her website sure has.
Heh.
