May. 27, 2012 at 11:34am with 2 notes
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A character concept I created for my ‘Hero City’ fictional world, based on the excellent aubade and the idea of ‘warrior librarians’. Armed with an electrified rapier, a Viking-esque helmet with radio link, a comfortable leather jerkin and matching leggings, and a satchel of wonders, this Librarian-Errant of Congress is an elite agent sent to retrieve and preserve information in a land given to chaos. There are several such women, named after troubadour songs of old and well-versed in all that may become a librarian. This is just the black and white version, obviously, and I will be colouring it in later.

A character concept I created for my ‘Hero City’ fictional world, based on the excellent aubade and the idea of ‘warrior librarians’. Armed with an electrified rapier, a Viking-esque helmet with radio link, a comfortable leather jerkin and matching leggings, and a satchel of wonders, this Librarian-Errant of Congress is an elite agent sent to retrieve and preserve information in a land given to chaos. There are several such women, named after troubadour songs of old and well-versed in all that may become a librarian.

This is just the black and white version, obviously, and I will be colouring it in later.

Apr. 1, 2012 at 11:57am with 1 note
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Today is the first official day of Script Frenzy, and although I haven’t written anything yet I’ve got the first scene (the cold open… that’s what those kids are calling it these days, right?) more or less mapped out in my head visually.

In addition, and this is an extremely vital part of my creative process and probably the same for many others, I’ve figured out what song should cue up after the action starts, to give just the right feel of “whoa shit things just got real son”. Spoiler alert: it’s the song I just uploaded here.

The combination of meandering banjo, sexy electric guitar, and just-a-titch creepy piano encapsulates everything I want the show to be. And the lyrics! The lyrics, in my understanding, seem to hint at a badass babe who won’t take shit from anyone, even if the overall intimation is also a bit of a “crazy eye” stereotype. I hope you can listen to this and envision the blasted, chaotic landscape of Hero City being traversed by some ladies with dirt on their faces and blood on their boots.

Mar. 27, 2012 at 9:10pm with 2 notes
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Once more I plan to mend my broken promises of updating regularly, but this time with a bit of practical record-keeping to back it up - I will be participating (and hopefully completing) Script Frenzy this year. I will be working on a story world I created a few years back, Hero City, a southwestern US mutant wasteland adventure with a heart of gold. My main goals in completing this script, beside the obvious one of completing a script, are: 1) To create a show with majority female characters, majority person-of-colour characters, and a show that’ll pass the Bechdel Test/Deggans Rule every episode. 2) To showcase some of the left-out details of (Southwestern) US culture as portrayed on television - among other things, I’d like to highlight the contributions of minorities to the shaping of the US ‘frontier’, and address issues of race and identity within the microcosm of the Hero City world. An example of this would be DeFord Bailey, a damned talented man who was all-too-predictably left poor and forgotten. 3) To raise money for the charity behind Script Frenzy, the Office of Letters and Light, who do a lot of amazing work and have been a driving force for so many aspiring writers of all ages. I have a personal fundraising page, that I will be decking out with all kinds of goodies as the month wears on. 4) To gear myself up for more serious pursuit of writing projects and blogging, among others! I have no link for that, since you are already at my blog. I will be uploading snippets of my script and script-related activities over the course of April, so stay tuned or stay some other thing!

Once more I plan to mend my broken promises of updating regularly, but this time with a bit of practical record-keeping to back it up - I will be participating (and hopefully completing) Script Frenzy this year. I will be working on a story world I created a few years back, Hero City, a southwestern US mutant wasteland adventure with a heart of gold. My main goals in completing this script, beside the obvious one of completing a script, are:

1) To create a show with majority female characters, majority person-of-colour characters, and a show that’ll pass the Bechdel Test/Deggans Rule every episode.

2) To showcase some of the left-out details of (Southwestern) US culture as portrayed on television - among other things, I’d like to highlight the contributions of minorities to the shaping of the US ‘frontier’, and address issues of race and identity within the microcosm of the Hero City world. An example of this would be DeFord Bailey, a damned talented man who was all-too-predictably left poor and forgotten.

3) To raise money for the charity behind Script Frenzy, the Office of Letters and Light, who do a lot of amazing work and have been a driving force for so many aspiring writers of all ages. I have a personal fundraising page, that I will be decking out with all kinds of goodies as the month wears on.

4) To gear myself up for more serious pursuit of writing projects and blogging, among others! I have no link for that, since you are already at my blog.

I will be uploading snippets of my script and script-related activities over the course of April, so stay tuned or stay some other thing!