Short Pier Productions

Well, that's done

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:46:54 GMT

My Yuletide story ended up being a bit shorter than I intended, but it's still up to code and on time. Hopefully my recipient will enjoy it.

Writing it crystallized something about my particular writing process. The skeletons on which my stories are based are almost always the conversations between the characters rather than the events of the plot. I write the dialogue first and fill in the action and description later, which is probably utterly bizarre to some writers.

I'd probably be a great script writer; I think in conversations.

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Dear Yuletide writer

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:46:41 GMT

( You find a letter addressed to you! )

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10 more random fannish things

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:44:49 GMT

The successor to this note which in turn followed from this one.

1) I'm watching more television now than at any previous point in my adult life: Castle, Venture Brothers, Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures, Fringe, Smallville, Burn Notice, White Collar, Leverage, Human Target... and I'm sure I'm forgetting some. If you ran all my shows together in one sitting it'd be like Saturday morning when I was a kid.

2) There are only two game shows I will ever love: Whose Line Is It Anyway (the British version) and QI. In other words, game shows that aren't really game shows but excuses to get neat people together to do neat things. I love the fact that they both embrace failure and that both crews are always willing to embarrass themselves for the greater laugh.

3) The Kids in the Hall were my Monty Python growing up. I loved the Pythons then and I love them even more now, but the Kids were the ones that me and my friends would rush back from classes to eat in front of.

4) I try only to keep books that I want other people to read, and that goes double for graphic novels. About a third of my comic library is floating around to different people at any given time. Right now I have one friend reading 100 Bullets and another reading Fables, and I'm waiting gleefully to start passing around Ex Machina and Astro City.

5) Every year I set myself a media consumption goal. For three years the goal was to watch 100 movies in 12 months, and I made it every time. Since then I've mostly fallen off the movie wagon--the last couple of years I've seen maybe a dozen new movies per annum if I was lucky. Recently, however, I got Netflix... and built a collected queue of about 200 in under two weeks. It still grows every time I look at it. I haven't even touched it for television series.

6) In the car earlier today I was reflecting that I really need to get a copy of Brick, LA Confidential, and Wag the Dog now that I have a real job and can afford it. Wag the Dog has a special place in my heart, and anyone who loves it is always welcome in my house.

7) A couple of weeks ago I found someone else who was introduced to The Prisoner by watching Harlan Ellison do an all-day marathon on the SciFi Channel in his bathrobe. It made me so happy.

8) I never got around to watching Buffy even though I always intended to. It was one of those series that everyone hyped up so much that I didn't want to touch it with a ten foot pole. I'll probably start cranking through it some time next year, safely insulated from the show's attached phenomenon.

9) There's a local comic shop that I love dearly and have been supporting for ten years now. I started off there because I wanted to get in on J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars from the ground floor, being a big fan of superheroes and Babylon 5. I ended up hating it by the end (and his current run on Wonder Woman makes me want to shake him really hard), but I do owe him a little gratitude for the hundreds of comics by other writers that I now have in my house.

10) I love bad movies. My dad used to watch MST3K with me (my mom and my sister didn't think it was funny at all), and eventually I branched out with my friends to start heckling movies ourselves. Old favorites include Zardoz ("Starring Sean Connery's chest hair."), Sinbad of the Seven Seas ("Oh no, not the nipple trick again."), Beastmaster 2 ("Some guy masters some beasts. He's done this before, apparently."), Dungeons and Dragons ("I attempt to disbelieve!"), and many others.

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Submitted!

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:40:06 GMT

Finally got my thing in for Yuletide this year. There were four needy fandoms that I thought would be a blast, so my list of "I can do these" totally changed.

Now I just get to bounce up and down in anticipation. :-)

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Curses! Foiled again!

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:02:03 GMT

Thought of the inevitable fandom I should have made sure was offered. Ah well, I'll make a note for next year.

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cannot stop laughing

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:09:00 GMT

Okay, anytime someone on Yuletide asks for Harry Potter fanfic, they should get forwarded to this.

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I declare victory over Yuletide

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:40:21 GMT

Well, at least over the nomination process. I found not one but four fandoms that really, really should have been on the list and weren't. One of them has never been on the list.

I'm contributing!

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Decisions, decisions

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:17:28 GMT

So, I want to keep doing my book reading thing through the end of the year. I also want to do Yuletide again. I also would like to get back into NaNo.

The question is, can I write 50,000 unedited words of a novel, read at least two books, and craft half of a good short story in a fandom I may very well have to research... in a month?

It'd be a lot and I would be totally exhausted by Thanksgiving, but I'm sorely tempted to do it anyway. Because it'd be a challenge, and there hasn't been enough of that in my life recently. :-)

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