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Plans for May

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

April is over and I beat the script! With not much over, granted, but I hit massive creative drain and life problems and whatnot and stopped. But now, I have a whole new month! Less yesterday and today. And I am coming up with plans.

Plan the first: Free Comic Book Day! Which already happened. And I missed the free comic books. Whoops. But I did get another Scott Pilgrim book and a random other book that was only $10 and looks to be fairy tale re-imaginings. It looks nifty and was cheap!

Plan the second: SPE Site. Once I actually figure out how everything is going to function on the site, it should be a breeze. Until then, it’s a damn lot of planning and wireframes and whatnot. Really, all I actually have is the layout and a loose idea of functionality. Still, I want it ready to go for the end of the month.

Plan the third: Writer site. I’m converting my portfolio into a writer site right now and I need to start actually doing a few things with it. I have plans for what I’m going to put on there, but I hope to have a schedule for posting there and to actually be posting regularily by the end of the month.

Plan the fourth: Work. I need a job. A nice stable one that gives me regular hours that interferes with everything else I’m working on. I can accept that for a regular paycheck, though. I kind of miss having those.

Plan the fifth: Drafts. I need to finish all the rough drafts for my stories by the end of the month, hopefully sooner. The sooner I can get them done, the sooner I can make them good and everything can start to fall into place. Or something like that.

Plan the sixth: Videos. I want to get all the long videos until July done this month. Because, you know, crazy things. I just like overloading myself and all that.

Wish me luck!

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Cameo: Channel Awesome’s 2 Year Anniversary

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

I almost forgot! I did another cameo!

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100 Pages!

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Why yes, it is only the 10th. And yes, I have written 100 pages of my script.

YAY!

Although if you want to get technical, I finished yesterday before dinner. 20 pages yesterday brought me up to 100, including one absolutely INSANE dream sequence, and now the page count is done.

Yes, only the page count. Because I’ve only just started on the story itself. I haven’t even introduced the villian yet and I almost forgot to introduce the conflict. I’m just happy I managed to get Selene in before the word count was up.

Now, that isn’t to say that this is an overly long script. Remember, I’m going that weird visual novel with character following route. I’ve been writing all of the story lines simultaneously, which is kind of a pain in the ass, kind of an awesome blessing at the same time.

Although the rest of this rant is being saved for something that I’m launching in a couple months. So excited to start working on it in May. I really am.

I do need a little definition on how things work in the universe and I need to completely rearrange a few of the scenes so that the useless padding stops being there. It will give me more time and make everything a lot snappier.

Still, I’m taking the rest of the day off to plot and plan for things. And do a little work on that thing I’m working on all of May. Bwaha. Awesomeness is ahead and I am excited.

Now if only I could get paid for some of this.

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Voting Closed!

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Thanks to everyone who participated in helping me pick my project for Script Frenzy this year! I’m going to be doing Transmundane, the bastardized visual novel.

A word on the project before I get going, though. Despite it being a visual novel, I am going to be horribly butchering the medium. Instead of the choose your own adventure style that the medium is generally made for, I’m going to try to use it to let people switch between the characters as the stories go on. It’s also going to be not at all a game, but a novel with pictures.

Yes, I know that makes it a horrible use of the medium. I acknowledge that right now. In the future, I’m going to be doing something with it as it’s intended, but for now, it should be a pretty fun adventure.

If you’ll excuse me, I have to go start figuring out the characters, plot and a million different trippy settings for the various subconscious landscapes.

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Cameo!

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

I forgot to post this. I did a cameo!

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Script Frenzy’s Coming

Friday, March 5th, 2010

So, Script Frenzy is coming up very soon. I’m thinking I’m doing it again this year and creating another side project to my other side projects. And, as always happens whenever I have a writing month coming up, I am conflicted about what I’m going to write. This time around, it’s two stories and two completely different mediums to write for. Well, three.

Yeah, I need a hand again. But this time, I can link to the pages instead that I’ve already written up, since they’re going to be projects that I already have on the roster. So, here are the options:

Atlantis Project
Years ago several children had run into the gate and all but one disappeared. Since then, the children had grown up and caused problems for them in the shadows. When two of them, the more notorious twins, came to offer their help tracking down the others, they were dubious about their motives. Still, this was the best option they had.

Onyx, the only child from that day they had managed to catch, was put in charge of a team assembled specifically so that they could keep the twins in check and together they try to find the other children from that day, grown up now and twisted as the underworld of Atlantis.

Twilight
When they moved to the city, it was mostly so Bree could pursue her dreams to become a doctor and not have to pay extra for dorms. Unfortunately, after one day she realizes that her dreams can never be. Her dreams shattered, she is lost and doesn’t know what to do next.

She stumbles into being a hero quite by accident. With Auntie Cici training her, she delves deep into what the world of heroes is like and what that entails. Meanwhile, she gets a job and tries to decide what she’s going to do with the rest of her life now that her dream is gone.

Transmundane
Brooke has always thought her dreams felt a little too real. When a group of people come to visit her in her dreams repeatedly, she finally realizes that her subconscious is a little different and she starts to discover the realms of the collective subconscious and the people who dwell there.

Here, she has the power to enter different people’s subconscious and affect them, as do the others who walk among them, but the people are split into two factions: Those who think they should change the subconscious of people to help them and those who believe it’s best that people work out their own problems.

Both factions want Brooke to join them and Brooke doesn’t know what she’s going to do. Luckily, she can leave whenever she wants.

Which one should I write?

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Shut Up Brain!

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Ugh. Sometimes things go wrong. Sometimes things go right. Sometimes things become a little clearer and it’s a combination of the two. So what is bringing about this particular rant-slash-whatever else it could be? What else? My book!

As I have mentioned, I’m working on Syndicate and writing/editing lots for it. A couple weeks ago, I mentioned that maybe I should add in the Tales for the Backstreets stuff at the end, just to tie things in together and give a little exposition about the universe. I thought about it more and thought, hey, it really is a pretty nifty idea. Let’s do it!

The problem came then. I realized that the Tales stuff all had a particular aspect or theme to it, which is wonderful. I needed to switch stories in and out, but that was fine. I scrapped two stories and added two different ones to the line up and moved those stories into another book where they would better tie in.

And then I looked at the lineup and had a horrible thought. These stories don’t work well as a first book. The stories I had dealt with a very particular and special aspect of the universe which would make for a nice second or third book to show how things are different here, but it missed a lot of context.

The third book in the series, however, was all of that context I needed t open up the series. And only a story and a half written. As much as I don’t really want to go ahead and put the work I’ve done so far on the back burner, a ser4ies called “Syndicate” should really open up with a book about the bloody Syndicate and not one particular aspect of the universe.

And so I spend today writing the drabble (word misused) versions the stories so that I can spend the next week writing first drafts. That and working on that script for Terradin.

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I got reviewed!

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Dude! I got reviewed! Check it out!

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Videos Section!

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

I’ve been procrastinating again. Got my head into a new project and been working on that instead of everything else I really should be doing. What can I say, I love tinkering and playing around with stuff, and this one was an interesting challenge to say the least.

After a bit of work, I’ve finally managed to get a videos section up! Now there’s one place to go to check out all the videos I’ve done so far. This should come in handy for… no one but me.

Also, fixed some of the plugins (But the image overlay continues to fail on everything but the homepage) and generally did entirely too much work on the wrong projects. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I am supposed to be working on a book.

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Checked out Downtown

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

So the Olympics are in town and wow are there a lot of tourists. Since I was downtown already, I opted to go and check out some of the sights, though quickly realized that I wore the wrong shoes for doing so. I only got as far as wandering around Granville and Robson. I saw the line ups and didn’t bother with any of that. Saw the zip line over Robson Square too.

But I missed all the really Olympics-y things. Instead, I saw lots of artwork stuff

A guy pretending to be a statue

Some musicians

And a guy offering free hugs

Really, though, I want to see what they do for the Olympics. Because I’m pretty sure this is normal stuff for Vancouver. I’ll head back after the Canada vs USA game because I’m not dumb enough to go downtown today.

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