Writing Spears

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Trying something new

Completed my first rough draft of issue #1 of the comic book series I'm writing. Once I realize to visualize the story as a series of still shots instead of continuous motion I got into a good flow. Now of to writing four more issues to complete the first story arc.

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Why Not

While waiting to reshoot some scenes for the web series The Ratchet Pack in October. I’m back in writer mode. I finished an outline for a tv pilot. Once I finish writing the pilot I will make a motion comic book version and post it online.

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Some stills from The Ratchet Pack comedy series I wrote and co-produced. Some reshoots and added scenes needed then off to the finial edit.

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Should you be writing flowchart

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Parallels

Parallels (IMDb / wikipedia) is a “movie” on Netflix. Those quote marks are because Netflix has given us a pilot for a TV show that hasn’t been made, and they’ve called it a movie. This means that it will be made entirely of loose ends right now, just to warn you. I cannot find any information about whether this TV show will be picked up, but it aired on 1st March 2015 as far as I can tell.

I should probably also mention that you will mainly be watching this for the excellence that is Constance Wu (who plays Polly).

It passes the Bechdel Test based on the closing scene, which is very spoilery so I won’t tell you what happens. I’ve submitted that to BechdelTest.com but the post isn’t up yet; I’ll edit in a URL when it is.

Why it’s amazing

It reminds me a lot of The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. It’s like if Sliders and Fringe got it on and had a low-budget, gritty, well-characterised sci-fi baby.

Ronan (right) is an underground MMA fighter (superpower: knocking people out) and brother of Beatrix (left), a student at Princeton (superpower: looking at people endearingly). Harry (middle) is a public defender with a crush on Beatrix (superpower: sticking to his morals like whoa), who is pretty much along for the ride to escape his terrifying-even-at-a-distance mother.

Ronan and Beatrix get a call from their father, who then turns out to be missing. They head to the address their father gave them, which turns out to be…

The Building (~ominous music~). It’s the same on every Earth.

Inside it’s scrawled with graffiti about the various Earths left by world-hoppers to help other travellers. "Avoid Earth 33 - the contagion has spread." "Found an Earth where all babies are born as twins."

Oh and, there’s the mysterious Device. All sci-fi stuff needs one.

What to do

Watch it on Netflix if you’re into gritty sci-fi. It’s on the UK and the US Netflixeseses, and many more according to moreflicks.com.

And then leave a review on Netflix, and give it plenty stars.

Also, if you have links to articles that contain any confirmed info about whether it’s going to get made or not, throw them at me?

Edit: Spotted on the trailer’s YouTube comments:

Fox Digital Studio are the ones that made the pilot and it looks like it’s been well-received, which bodes well.

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Television Act Structure

I finished studying the Orphan Black Pilot to understand the 5 act structure. I had to watch it a number of times because I kept getting sucked into the story. Favorite line in the pilot "This is all based on facts"

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New Pilot Idea

While I'm waiting to become a sag signatory producer, I finished a new pilot treatment.

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The current The Ratchet Pack Title Card.

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Long Time No Post But Still Writing

After writing Red Origins, I decided to let it sit for awhile because my brother and I came up with an idea for a webseries called The Ratchet Pack. It's a @ mock reality series that follows a struggling music manager attempt to turn his group of ratchet rappers into superstars. I will post about my experience writing the webseries, casting process, hiring crew, and ect. as much as I can.

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Turning Torso

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Japanese Covers for ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ by Yasushi Suzuki

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Glow In The Dark Nuclear Soap

These nuclear soaps are 100% safe to use and glow in the dark. The three different soaps read Plutonium, Uranium, and Fallout Shelter, and glow blue, green, and white, respectively. Sold on Amazon.

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My fiancé got me these for my birthday AND THEY ARE SO COOL

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I really want that Jack Torrance piece tattooed on me now 

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Hey guys! I’m relocating to San Francisco this week and would really love a little help with extraneous costs, so I’ve opened up commissions. Any amount of reblogging/tweeting would be swell.

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It's All in the Pacing

I just finished an intense action scene rewrite that took a week to complete. It was littered with scientific mumbo jumbo, character ramblings, and slow pacing. I was able to make use of various screenwriting tools to deal with the problem at hand; the pacing. First I made use of intercuts and it solved so many problems. It quicken the pace and still gave me the tension, quick dialogue, and foreshadowing that was needed in the scene. Next was series of shots. It help trim scenes that were needed but no dialogue was necessary to move the scene forward. What was a six page action scene transformed into a lean 2 1/2 action scene.