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Speaking Ill "If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge." ~ Napoleon Hill
Project Roster
The thing about this blog being called Unconventional Tales implies that I am telling more than one story. Which is true.
So a quick round-up of things I am currently working on when I’m not teaching small children!
On the Unconventional front, I’m hoping to get published within the next two years or so. I really believe in this book, y’all, and I know a lot of other people do too.
Sketching out ideas for an audio dramedy about a hotel on Valentine’s Day weekend and the pitfalls of having to serve guests, their significant others, and their other significant others. Once I have an idea of where I want things to go, I might enlist some friends to do a read through for shiggles. And the title is Side Conversations.
Looking over an old pilot I wrote about a guy that decides he wants to open a secular funeral home due to one bad experience too many at a funeral. That one is Speaking Ill. Should there be an original screenplay competition on the horizon, I’ll probably be touching that up and submitting it.
My big, big idea that’ll take years to write, Rue. This was actually inspired by the character of Aunt Petunia in Harry Potter. Basically, what is it like to be the “normal one” of a pair of siblings and what happens when said sibling gets themselves killed and you end up raising their extraordinary kiddo? Only Rue herself is going to have a lot of dimensions we get to explore. And possibly a trilogy. Wowie.
So on the scale of none to done, Unconventional is definitely the one that is in its closest to finished form, with Speaking Ill as a close second. My other two are in very early stages and will definitely take time (or a very hyped up summer or two) to write. But I guess it’s nice to see all of these ideas here and to share them, even if just to say “Hey, these are things I’m doing!”
I missed writing, and I especially missed letting my own imagination and ideas run wild without constraints. I love working with others too, but it’s also been a long, long time since I’ve consistently written things down for me. It’s as if a floodgate of ideas just opened and I’m drowning in a sea of characters, plots, and dialogues. It’s exciting. But it’s also a bit overwhelming, to be honest.
I’m going to write these things with the intention of just getting them down. If they get published or performed, cool. And if not, then, I made an art. I wrote some things. And that’s pretty cool too.
Speaking Ill//Pezberry
Santana was glad that Rachel had been out when she got back to the apartment they now shared. She was in a strange mood, filled with conflicting emotions, and there was no way to know how they might have come out in a conversation. She’d spent most of the day at the VA hospital, getting everything from her heart to her blade checked on, and on her way out of the building she’d been approached by a young woman. It hadn’t seemed that odd, at first, but the longer the conversation went on the more she was left to think about. Finally she’d accepted a business card, and as she sat in the dark she turned the card over and over in her hand.
A few small drinks had calmed jangled nerves, and now she would be more prepared for when Rachel arrived. She needed to talk about the offer she’d been made, what it might do for - or to - them both, and only Rachel could give her the advice that she needed to hear. Santana just hoped that she could help straighten out the tangle of thoughts in her head.
Job Interview Thoughts ...
1 - don't ask questions you can figure out on your own. 2 - never change the job details. 3 - never gossip. 4 - don't dig into interviews qualifications, history, background. 5 - don't negotiate benefits. 6 - don't discuss career paths. 7 - don't speak ill of the company. 8 - expect to have a background check. 9 - expect the company to monitor the usage of it's resources. 10 - expect the company to require you be behave appropriately on and off the job.
All I can think of when I see Jennifer Hudson is the fact that she's a hoarder. A family friend did the murder investigation of her family and apparently he was more horrified by her house than the bodies.