Here’s page 100 of “In Deed”.
I actually had to look up the name of the ship, because I have forgotten what it was. I guess that’s what happens when I pick some random name instead of coming up with one that has some special connection or meaning.
The scene that’s played out over the past few pages (including today’s) is one of the things that difficult to do with short-chapter serial fiction. This would have gone on for thousands and thousands of words in a regular story, especially since there were actually TWO sets of actions taking place (past and present). But I can’t take months to unfold just one scene, so lots of things got shortened or just hinted at. I think it gets the point across, but I still get the feeling that the scene was shortchanged by virtue of the format.
There was an error in the old Book of Dark Places website that prevented people from viewing the story “Darker” in it’s entirety. Basically, once you got about halfway in, there was a broken link and you couldn’t get any further unless you could guess the date of the next post. That’s all fixed now.
[sarcasm]Thanks to the OVERWHELMING number of people who pointed out the error that had been there for literally years[/sarcasm]
Anyway, I was viewing the story in its entirety and something occurred to me:
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This latest episode of “The Forgotten” almost didn’t get written.
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Your input is requested: Out of everything I’ve written, what story do you think would make the best movie? Crusade? Henry County Horror? Inquisitors? Expedition? Maybe something else? I’m interested in your input. What would YOU pay money to see on the big screen.
The reason I’m asking: NO, I am not going to make a movie, so just calm right on down. I’ve done my research. Getting a script accepted in the traditional way, with the treatments and the submissions and the re-writes, etc… is work. No, I mean WORK, work…. as in, you spend more time doing bullshit than you do actually writing the damn script… and then it doesn’t pay all that well. I know this already, and I refuse to play that game. HOWEVER, as I’ve said elsewhere, I’m always looking for new ways to tell a story (thus, the “Book of Dark Places”) and I’ve got a couple of old screenwriting books and some screenwriting software that I have never used. Might be fun to actually learn to do this thing. But I don’t want to take too much energy away from what I’m already doing, so I’d rather not have to think up something entirely new just to play around with. If I come up with a good enough product, maybe some internet-based content folks might be interested. Most likely I’ll just post it in the Library for comments.
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