Merry screams like a little girl.
Mar. 30th, 2003 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariThe computer finally seems stable. It's playing Region 2 discs without Blue Screens...but something in the system still is off kilter. Damned if I knew WHAT.
AWFW and CS are updated.
Did you know I've been thinking for the last two week that it's actuall a wekk later than it was? I thought tomorrow was April 7th.
I plan to start writing more often here, now that training is over and I can actually get work done while on the phone. People think I'm bad about drawing while working, my cubicle neighbors play Magic the Gathering on the phones.
Here's a little something I wrote in Vaysha's journal:
Among many unaffordable things and the one Obvious Thing....
...I've always wanted to write and produce a television show. I've had plans for YEARS, since I was a small child to put on a series that would be an anthology type show, but not episodic. Something more along the lines of Doctor Who in construction: Four to seven episode stories throughout a season of 26 episodes. As a matter of fact, early Doctor Who really shaped how I write, especially the way I display Episode Titles and "Title Cards" for future episodes. If my comic were televised, they'd even have cliffhangers and reprises like Doctor Who.
Most of my stories revolved around that dream. Polychronicon was originally set up as a set of ten "eight episode stories" that would have had one story a season. Same with Closetspace (5 sets of five episode stories).
If you didn't like what was on, come back in a few weeks and we'd have a new story on the show for the next four to seven episodes.
A friend and I tried shopping Closetspace around in the early 90s. I had it arced out to 26 episodes for a good open ended one season story arced run (open ended so that if we were cancelled, you had the finished story, and if we weren't we could keep going). Alas, I found out how Hollywood really works, and decided I wasn't really willing to subject myself to the constant criticism, rewrites and "dumbing down" for TV.
Sadly I lost my "pilot" scripts for episode 1 and 2 of Closetspace, but still have the comic scripts I'd made from them. Just to see if I could still do it I wrote a "pilot" episode of Polychronicon in 2001...just to see if I still new the format.
Still, if someone gave me carte blanche on 26 episodes a year, I'd do it in an instant. Instead, I do comics. I tell the stories my way, and never worry about rewrites. I just wish I drew better. :)
Closetspace comic scripts made from my old pilot episode scripts:
http://closet.keenspace.com/may1996draftofroommatewanted.html
http://closet.keenspace.com/june1996draftofroommatewanted.html
http://closet.keenspace.com/june1997draftofroommatewanted.html
http://closet.keenspace.com/may1996draftofrocketsredflare.html (spoiler protected)
http://closet.keenspace.com/june1996draftofrocketsredflare.html (spoiler protected)
Polychronicon Pilot Script:
http://www.realtime.net/~dolari/polychroniconchapter1verse1.html
AWFW and CS are updated.
Did you know I've been thinking for the last two week that it's actuall a wekk later than it was? I thought tomorrow was April 7th.
I plan to start writing more often here, now that training is over and I can actually get work done while on the phone. People think I'm bad about drawing while working, my cubicle neighbors play Magic the Gathering on the phones.
Here's a little something I wrote in Vaysha's journal:
Among many unaffordable things and the one Obvious Thing....
...I've always wanted to write and produce a television show. I've had plans for YEARS, since I was a small child to put on a series that would be an anthology type show, but not episodic. Something more along the lines of Doctor Who in construction: Four to seven episode stories throughout a season of 26 episodes. As a matter of fact, early Doctor Who really shaped how I write, especially the way I display Episode Titles and "Title Cards" for future episodes. If my comic were televised, they'd even have cliffhangers and reprises like Doctor Who.
Most of my stories revolved around that dream. Polychronicon was originally set up as a set of ten "eight episode stories" that would have had one story a season. Same with Closetspace (5 sets of five episode stories).
If you didn't like what was on, come back in a few weeks and we'd have a new story on the show for the next four to seven episodes.
A friend and I tried shopping Closetspace around in the early 90s. I had it arced out to 26 episodes for a good open ended one season story arced run (open ended so that if we were cancelled, you had the finished story, and if we weren't we could keep going). Alas, I found out how Hollywood really works, and decided I wasn't really willing to subject myself to the constant criticism, rewrites and "dumbing down" for TV.
Sadly I lost my "pilot" scripts for episode 1 and 2 of Closetspace, but still have the comic scripts I'd made from them. Just to see if I could still do it I wrote a "pilot" episode of Polychronicon in 2001...just to see if I still new the format.
Still, if someone gave me carte blanche on 26 episodes a year, I'd do it in an instant. Instead, I do comics. I tell the stories my way, and never worry about rewrites. I just wish I drew better. :)
Closetspace comic scripts made from my old pilot episode scripts:
http://closet.keenspace.com/may1996draftofroommatewanted.html
http://closet.keenspace.com/june1996draftofroommatewanted.html
http://closet.keenspace.com/june1997draftofroommatewanted.html
http://closet.keenspace.com/may1996draftofrocketsredflare.html (spoiler protected)
http://closet.keenspace.com/june1996draftofrocketsredflare.html (spoiler protected)
Polychronicon Pilot Script:
http://www.realtime.net/~dolari/polychroniconchapter1verse1.html
