I had two scenes to write today. I worked out the first one in my head as I was driving in to work this morning and was able to write it up in no time. I was on fire! I immediately moved on to the second scene, confident I would have the scripts wrapped up…
August 7, 2009: Revised expectations. Two Cuts. The Santa Fat Chicken Salad. Parents are destroying our environment. The bird is smart, but not a genius.
A bit of a frustrating day all around. I went into the office this morning with the intention of revising both drafts and having the scripts out by this afternoon. A little after lunch, I had to revise my all too ambitious plans and, instead, aim for only one script. By late afternoon, it was…
August 6, 2009: Back in the Office! Pics from the Early Days! And an Extra Chunky Mailbag!
First off, thanks to everyone who has offered up suggestions on how to deal with my tech problem (see last issue, ed.). Tomorrow, I’ll see if I can export a copy of my blog to via a (hopefully) faster computer at the office. To be honest, the situation isn’t as dire as it seems. I…
August 5, 2009: Who’s Up For A Three-Parter? Technical Difficulties! More The Speed of Dark Discussion!
“Ooooh fuuuuudge.” Only I didn't say 'fudge.' I said the word. The big one. The queen mother of dirty words. The 'f, dash, dash, dash' word. Yep, for a full minute this morning I was little Ralphie Parker. It was the moment I opened up Martin’s script, Lost, on my laptop and noticed the…
August 4, 2009: Announcing the Winner of the Caption This Contest! The Biggest Holy #%&@ Ending Ever! Some The Speed of Dark Discussion!
I’d like to kick off today’s entry by announcing the winner of our very first Caption This contest. The winner was chosen by none other than the awkwardly pictured party himself: Carl Binder. Thanks to everyone who took the time send in their captions. There were a lot of great ones - and a few…
August 3, 2009: The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon
In the interest of full disclosure: This isn‘t my first time reading The Speed of Dark. It’s one of my favorite books and I have nothing but good things to say about it. Okay. Onto my review: Thirty-five year old Lou Arrendale is a bioinformatics specialist working for a pharmaceutical company in the…
August 2, 2009: Those Act II breaks are always in the last place you look. Some set pics. Book club reminder. My super, secret project revealed! Carl’s 3 Stages. Creepy ads, dogs, and the mailbag. Holy crap! This title is almost as long as the entry itself!
A great writing day. Granted, a better day for lazing about in the sun but, still, writers can’t be choosers. So after lying awake in bed last night working the story out in my head, I finally found my Act II break! (I’d left it in the garage behind the recycling bin.). Thus armed, I…
August 1, 2009: Please check under your seats for my Act II break! And some mailbag!
I’m feeling dizzy, weak, and nauseous, am suffering from a slight headache, and I think my nose is about to start bleeding. It’s either radiation poisoning or the after-effects of working all day on this script. Or maybe a bit of both (Exactly how much electromagnetic radiation will I have been exposed to by sitting…
July 31, 2009: One Down, Hopefully One More To Go! And A Little Mailbag!
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 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…