progress

It's amazing what a person can achieve when they have enough energy drinks and some moderate determination, I've pulled a major push and put out 30 pages in the last 24 hours, and the next 24 will see me finished, ish.

see:  http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/user/539286

k, gotta get back to work.

Andre

Should I try to do it? God only knows if I can make it.

Should I try to do it? God only knows if I can make it.

There are three days left in April, I need 50 pages, that's about 20 pages per day to be safe. so couple of hours each night.  I think I can make it, but....

oh hell, I don't know.  I've gotta get to work here, I'll let it percolate and then I'll be back to deal with what I'm feeling.

it's three hours since I wrote the first two lines above.  and now....


I can do this.  I can make the deadline.  I have 60 hours and 50 pages, that's a page per hour for safety.  so I'm out, no posting here until I'm done, then if I feel it, I'll up the whole damned thing up.

Bye for now.

Andre.

A determination

I will make it as a writer of fiction and other things.  I will sell something I wrote.

Now, having said that, I only have a couple of things in progress so far, most of the great ideas are floating around in my head, and that's were they've been for quite some time.

Umm...  First, to write.
Second to learn to review.
Third to learn to market one's self and one's work

Finally, to cash cheques as they come in, and invest that money against the future.

Good idea, let's see how it works in reality.

Andre.

Internet > Domain Name > Blogging > Domain Mane?

We live in an internet age, where most anybody who's under 80 years old knows what the internet is, and anybody who spends any time on the internet, for work or play, will know what a domain name is.

You have to pay domain hosts to carry your name, etc, etc.  It's all about money.

So in my typical fashion, I've transposed the letters again, and the image that sprang to mind was  was _odd_ to say the least.

Mane > Lion's Mane.  Follow?

Domain > Internet location

Domain Mane > fuzzy hairy bit around the selected domain?  not really well defined and kinda hard to get past.

A fuzzy hairy internet, somehow it seems to work as an analogy.

Sorry, I'll go back to work now.  Have fun with the image.

Andre.

A limerick in honor of my wife

A limerick, I thought I'd try to write a poem to my love, but, well, I'm not real classy, so here goes.

Self-Worth

There once was a boy from Burks Falls
Who didn't have near enough balls,
But he moved to BC
And there found his Sweetie,
Now he feels almost ten feet tall.




what do you think?  I actually chuckled out loud when I read it back to myself.  it's soo very bad, but it's a start,

Andre.

So, I find a need a plot outline.

Yup, I've caved, I need a plot outline, even in brief, to make this script thing work.
umm... not sure what or where to go with it all,

So far we have Jamie at the Dam realizing things are getting bad, and Mike in the tower, about to get a call from Jamie.

So, we have this little town Northfork, and the reservoir is boiling, and it's damaging the concrete dam, threatening the town, (this gives us two, or maybe three days tops to fix and resolve this issue.

Why is the dam boiling?  two options, one is that there is an environmental catastrophe looming and the second is that aliens are trying to do something and it's not working right, (their aim was off?)  Ohh.. how about merging realities instead of the ever popular divergent realities.

Now, where's the movie going to end?  Jamie and his betrothed get married, Mike is retired, wonder who else will show up and what they're going to be doing?

Plot A is what to do about the issue at the dam,
Plot B is Jamie and his fiancées plans.
Plot C is about Mike's running for town council or local government to "make a difference in the screwed up priorities of the local government"

So, why is the dam boiling?
I am leaning towards either the convergent realities or aliens, rather than the environmental thing.  If we have an environmental issue, it probably means moving the whole population due to dangers lingering after the fact.  And I suppose the convergent realities is going to be a stretch for most to grasp, even those who are open minded enough to accept such a reversal of situations, that leaves some form of extraterrestrial intervention.  Fair enough.

So it's aliens.  Why are aliens making the dam boil and how can we stop it and save the town?

Here's what I've come up with so far.  The Alien's cannot materialize on our level of existence yet, but they have picked up on our broadcasts (the nuclear explosions sent radiated pulses out that they picked up) so they're trying to communicate with us via radiated communications that are FTL due to having primitively punched through to subspace to transmit.  But we don't have the receiver's capable to receive and if we did, they're broadcasting a directed beam, they're in a holding position over Northfork (which just happened to be where they stopped when they got to Earth) , and the dam just happened to look like one of their receivers to them (Large gelatinous mass, capable of absorbing the signal, coupled to a moderate amount of electrical technology *the power station controls* so that it can be rendered legible)

I have no idea beyond a local university student home from college for the summer, able to "help" Jamie, they're high-school buddies, but it's going to take some time (most of the first day) to get this even straightened out for these guys, then the next day to set up the receiver, and finally the crowning point, culmination is when they can get a message understood and sent back, (through a jury rigged sending unit) and start communications.

 what means of communication?  how about a generic computer code translation? standard math cross communication?  Yeah, that'll work.  and the college guy can call in a favor from the computer hackers from back at college, and they'll run in enough computing power to make it work.  probably pull the staff and professors into this as well, we'll need them to authorize the equipment needed to make this work properly.

Ok, that's enough to go on for me.  I'll get back to the script.

When it's done, I have no delusions about being able to sell it, so I'll put it up here, and if someone with the skill can fix it and turn it into a movie, I'll pay good money to go see it.  I love these kind of push the bounds of the comfortable and known world.

Take care and God Bless.

Andre.