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Adaptation notes: Girl With A Pearl Earring 2004/11/11
Okay, having listened to the writer commentary (screenwriter and novelist, a great combo), some adaptation notes: The novel was sparse, but much more dialogue heavy than the screenplay... and the final cut was even sparser than the screenplay. So both...

Capote 2006/10/05
Capote is a character piece that tackles a broader theme: the relationship between an artist and his own humanity.

Credits and residuals on Battlestar Galactica webisodes 2006/10/19
If the principle for ongoing compensation for creating a story or a character or a production design holds true across all these media - theatrical features, television, radio and so forth - then without a doubt the principle must also hold true for internet, mobile and other distribution channels.

Good characterisation 2004/11/05
Someone on TBBS asked what "good characterisation" was. Posted an off-the-cuff reply but thought it summed my views up quite nicely: Good characterisation is when a character is good. Okay, now that I've got the George Bush answer out of...

Layers of literalism 2004/11/12
Watching Van Helsing reminded me of the pleasant experience I had watching The Mummy the first time. I literally couldn't take my eyes of Rachel Weisz. Well, not quite literally, but almost literally. When most people use that phrase "I...

Michael Chabon on genre fiction 2005/06/03
I'm a geek, scratching out feeble geekish writings for other geeks.

NaNoWriMo 1/11/06 2006/11/01
Am going to give NaNoWriMo another go this year.

NaNoWriMo 29/10 2004/10/29
So I started early, so sue me. I'll be gone four days in November anyway so I'll use that as an excuse. Will have enough problems hitting 50,000 words as it is... Here's the beginning... it's an early story (the...

Six Word stories 2006/10/26
Six word short stories

Sondheim on adapting musicals to the screen 2005/03/25
Twelve hours and seventeen minutes of continuous Sondheim (interrupted only by the occasional plea to the audience to get out of the theatre so that others can enjoy the free event). What bliss could be greater, even if it meant...

Story fragment - IIIness 2004/10/20
I signed up for a local writing course and also the the National Novel Writing Month to see if these can prompt me to get off my butt, writing-wise. This is something from the NaNoWriMo five minute exercise (19th October)....

Story fragment - In the summer of... 2004/10/05
Next story fragment in the Wordforge group story anthology....

Story fragment - Whacko 2004/11/21
So there's a writing challenge at this board on the theme of this picture: . What I came up with (okay, okay, it took all of ten minutes to write) is obvious, intellectually lacking in rigour and plain not very...

Story fragment - five dollar virgin whore 2004/10/05
Despite daydreams I've only ever dabbled in writing, but Diacanu a guy at Wordforge got me off my fat bum (in a forum whch I'm supposed to moderate and curate no less!) to throw together a couple of fragments. The...

The Making of Star Wars for Radio 2006/11/04
The Making of Star Wars for Radio: A Fable for the Mind's Eye is a half-hour radio documentary on the adaptation of the original Star Wars movie to radio

The Once and Future Voyages... 2005/05/15
With the screening of Enterprise's "These Are The Voyages..." some hours ago the franchise ends an uninterrupted tenure on TV that extends back to 1987. Where will Star Trek fans get their new Trek fix from? From themselves. Virtual Enterprise will aim to tell bold, innovative stories that will continue to take advantage of Enterprise's unique prequel status, that don't neglect certain characters, that will allow people to grow and things to change, that take chances in subject matter and form, that emphasize meaningful drama over meaningless action or technobabble, and that remain true to the fundamental ethos of Star Trek in all its incarnations.

To boldy write... 2005/03/15
Haven't been updating the blog much in the last few weeks because I've gotten involved in a couple of Star Trek related fiction projects, both of which will take some months to gestate and which take up a fair amount...

Wilkes the Theatre Assassin 2005/05/28
While the Bump In production of Assassins couldn't be considered to be a great success (even judged by amateur standards) the train ride to the theatre did produce this little scratching.

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