Let's see...if I move part of Act II into Act III, and move a scene from Act IV into Act V, then take the final scene out of Act V and put it into the Tease of the next episode... I am Exhausted. Yes, with a capital E. After chatting with Brad and co. about…
July 30, 2009: Sukoshi hanesamasu demo zenzen wakarimasen! Enter the “Caption This” Contest to win…uh…something cool! Episode #20, somewhere between longish and outrageously so! The SGU Crew!
Nihongo benkyo o shitte imasu! I’m studying Japanese! It’s well known that the quickest and most comprehensive way to learn a foreign language is total immersion. As a result, I’ve told my friends and co-workers that, for the time being, I will only address them in Japanese and I ask them to only speak to…
July 29, 2009: My Culinary Odyssey Draws Ever Closer! Episode Updates! The Hyrdoponics Lab!
Success! In preparation for my culinary pilgrimage to the mecca of gastronomic delights - Tokyo, natch - I have trimmed my prospective restaurants list from an unwieldy 96 down to a much more manageable 45. Of course, that’s not including a lot of the theme and smaller hole-in-the-wall restaurants I’d also like to check out…
July 28, 2009: My Triumvirate of Terrificness! Elyse Levesque! An Episode Title Revealed!
Well, second day back at work and no work completed. On the script front that is. Production has, however, started on Faith (Episode 13) and we have watched two of the three episodes that make up my Triuvirate of Terrificness, my Top 3 favorite episodes of the season. So far. Yesterday, we watched the director’s…
July 27, 2009: Happy 1000!
Today’s post is a milestone of sorts as this blog marks its 1000th entry. It has come a long way from its early days when it was originally conceived as a way to document my culinary adventures in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Back then, I averaged about 25 views a day. Over time, that…
July 26, 2009: Sprint, Stride, Stride, and LEEEAAAP! Doubling Down on Dinners! T.V. Trouble! Linksys Tech Support Is Not Particularly Supportive! The Destiny Infirmary!
In order to make any headway on the writing front, I need the authorial equivalent of a running start - all the way back to the Tease, reading over what I have, zipping along through the first act, picking up speed in the second act until I reaching the point where I left off -…
July 25, 2009: I’m Ice Cold! Prepping for Tokyo! The Corn Soup is Back! Outside Icarus Base!
I wanted to work on the script - really, I did - but as fired up as I was yesterday, I was stone cold frozen today. The words just wouldn’t come and, after a half an hour of futile spinning, I decided redirect my attention elsewhere and pick things up tomorrow. I only have a…
July 24, 2009: Catching up with Alan! A Rare Creative Burst! Inside Icarus Base!
You’ll never guess who I went to dinner with last night. Uh, right. How’d you know? Oh, right. I mentioned it in yesterday’s entry. Well, yes. Earlier in the week, former Stargate scribe and producer Alan McCullough dropped me an email and invited me out for dinner. I hadn’t seen Alan in ages so I…
July 23, 2009: Homeworld Command! Catching up with the Mailbag!
I’m off to dinner with Alan McCullough (formerly of Stargate, presently of Sanctuary) tonight so this will be a moderately early entry. When I get back, I plan to see how much headway I can make on the script. Last night, I hit the 28 page mark and things were coming along nicely - until…
July 22, 2009: September’s Book of the Month Club Pick = Heroes Die, by Matthew Woodring Stover! A Sharon Taylor Update! And the SGU Practical Puddle!
Back in January when Stargate: Universe consultant and best-selling SF author John Scalzi was in town, I took him to - where else? - Fuel where, over the course of our dinner conversation, the subject of my humble little book club came up. I asked John if he could recommend a possible future selection. He responded without…
July 21, 2009: Freelancing vs. Full-Time Commitment! The Early Gate Tests!
You know how you hear many a lottery winner state that, despite their sudden financial windfall, they have no plans to quit their jobs? Well, hopefully they’re true to their word because studies reveal that 70% of lottery winners blow through their winnings in just a few years. But that’s beside the point. Of greater…
July 20, 2009: The Destiny Gate!
My posting a link to this brilliant article - http://www.scene-stealers.com/top-10/erics-top-10-worst-twist-endings/ - engendered a fair amount of debate about the merits of certain movie twists and what makes for a cheap cop-out on the part of the screenwriter. Today, I'd like to list some of my favorite movie twists - while still remaining spoiler-free! The Planet of the…
July 19, 2009: Bells and Whistles!
Every once in a while you come across an article that speaks to you with such depth of truth that it touches your very soul, presenting an argument that uncannily reflects your innermost convictions with such dead-on clarity you'd swear it had been written by your doppelganger. Friends, this morning, I stumbled across just such an article. I present to you Eric…
July 18, 2009: Script Progress! A Book of the Month Club Reminder! Dinner With Ivon! The Destiny Living Quarters!
So far, so good on the script front. I hit the 15 page mark this afternoon. Things get very busy very quickly and there’s a hell of a lot happening in what’s shaping up to be a fairly robust first act. Tomorrow, I’ll go over what I’ve got so far, tweak and tighten, trim the…
July 17, 2009: Face Your Phobias! Entrances and Exits! The Mailbag!
So I was perusing the internet today in search of some edifying and thought-provoking material when, appropriately enough, I came across an article in Yahoo Entertainment news titled “Celebrity Phobias and Obsessions”. http://omg.yahoo.com/news/celebrity-phobias-and-obsessions/25369?nc. Oh, do tell. The anxiety-producers listed range from the perfectly understandable (ie. Daniel Radcliffe’s fear of clowns) to the somewhat bizarre (ie.…