Timewaster's Guide Archive

Huh. Waddaya know? A plot twist! Didn't see that coming...

Anyone care if I email my piece early? No point waiting until Dec 1 if its just sitting here. That would give us a chance to work on any other bugs in the system and stagger the reading a bit.

I will wait for others opinions, but could send it out Tuesday.

Side note: I am blocked from accessing this forum at work now. I could get in last week, but not this week. Bummer.

2nd note: wish me luck on my job interview tomorrow. It's with the same company that I'm at, so it's not like I'm out of work. But my job pays for my hobbies, and a raise would not go amiss. I know who 7 of the 12 interviewees are, and the competition is pretty formidable.

Raethe --  actually I hadn't mentioned when. Don't really mind either way.

Are folks submitting their current chapters only, or will they feed it to us from the beginning?

Since I'm working on a series of short scripts (roughly equivalent to chapters) I had figured to start with the first one and work from there. I've written scripts #1,2,3 & 5 (chronologically),  and am working on #4 now. Only the first two have been significantly rewritten, and I'm sure there are problems in each.

Welcome, WEKM, glad you could tune in! Oh, and welcome to this end of the age curve. But sadly, you don't get to be THE old man of the bunch, yung'en! I've still got you beat by a couple.

I am, of course, intensely jealous that you get to know the Honorable Trio since they seem to have an averson to the midwest. Howard made it to Indianapolis last July but it was on the same day as my dad's 80th birthday so I was with my family.

A slight clarification: though my resume may sound impressive, poverty has rendered my film career null and void.  I don't think shooting wedding videos  or the occasional industrial film doesn't exactly make me all that 'experienced.'

But self-deprecation as side, I am more than confident in my screenplay formating. I learned much from my first script in which I over-formated and included descriptions for just about every camera movement. Eek!

Hello, my name is... um... Karl. You can call me, er, Karl.

First I'll mention that I did take the time to read each of your bios. I am fascinated by the breadth and depth of experience and backgrounds here.

Oh, and I feel like the old man of the bunch. I'm probably twice the age of the average member...

I have my degree in Art, in particular photography and film making (yes, film). Later I taught myself video. Oddly enough, Chaos, I started out as a physics major! Writing for me came out of the necessity for a cheap script. Since I don't have the budget to pay a writer, I might as well learn how to do it myself. Besides,  I can hyphenate my title: director-producer-writer-chief cook-bottle washer.  However, I have taken a couple of standard creative writing classes, and have a couple of modest short stories under my belt.

My first feature length script, written many moons ago, was written and edited literally by cut and paste. No really. At the time I didn't own a computer or type writer. So I hand wrote a first draft, photocopied the whole think, the cut the copies apart to insert or delete various parts. Finally a friend gave me his old 386 computer that was not much more than a typewriter with memory. The first script was called My Requiem, contained just about every rookie mistake, and shall never see the light of day.

Currently I am working on a series of shorter scripts that are supernatural thrillers (not quite horror, but touches on it). Keeping my prospective budget in mind, these stories are set in contemporary time in a modest sized Mid-western college town. Coincidentally, not unlike the town I live in. Convenient, eh? This will be the series that I would appreciate feedback on.

As an aside, I am working on a prose short story as a break from script writing. It is mostly as self-indulgent exorcise and is better categorized as fan-fic. I am a huge fan of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series. After buying the first book in the series for my nephew, I decided to re-read what I owned, and have gone on to read almost the entire series (I only have a couple left).  My short story is set in McCaffrey's Pern.

My favorite author is Roger Zelazny. I had the pleasure of receiving a letter from him allowing me to use one of his short stories for the film that got me out of college. Sadly he passed away before I could present him with a copy of the finished film.

I am probably more influenced by Katherine Kurtz Deryni and Adept series.  Also, in the last few years I have been reading a lot of historical fiction such as Horatio Hornblower and the Aubrey-Maturin novels, as well as the Richard Sharpe series.

And I wouldn't be much of a film maker if I didn't mention the fact that my favorite director is Terry Gilliam.

Okay, late arrival. I'm still recovering from the internet-deprived wild and wooly weekend. So get me on this list, pronto!