Tuesday, June 22, 2010

this is where we used to live

FINALLY managed to get my bed over to the new apartment.  Oh god.  For the record, moving a mattress, bed spring, and metal frame by yourself is hard as hell.  Compound that with the extremely narrow spiraling stairwell and a tiny Toyota Echo and my workout for the day has been replaced.  Hoo.  Still need to wash one sheet and get my comforter dry cleaned, but since it's a billion degrees out, I don't think I'll miss them much in the meantime.

Good news, all that's left to do at the old apartment is cleaning and trash/junk removal.
Bad news, the junk includes a huge, shitty wooden desk, an enormous broken-in-half recliner, and a foosball table that my dad might want (which means I'll have to NOT junk it, but rather move it and put it SOMEWHERE.  Hoorah.

So now that my apartment is fully stocked with all of my stuff, it's time to finish organizing everything.  It's getting there, but some stuff just keeps getting in the way (I own way the fuck too many funny T-shirts, for example.  They don't all fit in my closet, and I'm not a huge dresser person.  Too hard to find what you're looking for.)

Getting a little further in my writing.  I've now hit the point where I can't decide how I want to write it.  It's a series (of some sort) about masked vigilantes, in a world without what you'd call superheroes.  At least, that's the way it seems until a mysterious flying man suddenly appears.

I can't decide what I want to do with it, though.  There are three options: book, graphic novel, screenplay.  If I write it as a book, it'll have to be a series of short-ish stories.  The content doesn't really suit the medium, but if I can't decide what I want to do, at least this option translates to the other two reasonably well.  If I write it as a graphic novel, which the content seems to suit the best, I'd need to find an artist (as my art skills are nowhere near what I'd like for something like this).  If I write it as a screenplay, the trick then is production.  This series takes place within a larger universe I've been working on, and for it to be filmed would work best if the rest of the material was being filmed too (for those of you who know me or know the stuff I've written or worked on in the past, the current series takes place in the same universe as Davian City Blues, The College Crew/Candyman, and The Party Train/Thank You, Places.  Trust me, they're not as entirely unrelated as it would seem.)

For those who don't know, Davian City Blues is a four-volume series about the son of a former mafioso taking down a corrupt city, The College Crew (conceived by Sean Dyer and Caleb Wrobel) is about a group of sort-of-superpowered college students, Candyman (conceived by Caleb Wrobel) is about an agent that uses candy as a weapon, Thank You, Places (conceived by myself and Nick Bebel) is a series about the crazy-but-true events that happen in the circle we ran with at WPI (The Party Train was a specific chapter of this, produced as a play in WPI's New Voices festival).

The series I'm working on now (current posited names include Crusaders, Wonder, and a number of other equally "eh" titles) is about a specific set of people who try to fix the city they live in by taking down bad guys.  The above series all have connecting points to the story.

So the question is, what medium?  I'm thinking book for now, then try to get an artist for graphic novel creation, then build it all up and solidify it for film.

Thoughts?
  rickie-d

3 comments:

  1. How about as a serial, published on a blog? Start with a series of vignettes and very short stories, just to get some skin in the game and to incentivize writing (it would be far less frustrating than a whole book), then expand from there. It also gives you a nice way to experiment and flesh out characters, and to get feedback.

    Good luck!

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  2. Interesting, I definitely hadn't thought of that. Since I'm still fleshing out a VAST majority of the first volume still, that might be a great way to sort of "first draft" it a bit. Definitely gonna consider trying that, thanks!

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  3. Pick out some of the t-shirts you don't like but almost never wear, and see if you can't find someone willing to make you a t-shirt quilt. Good for the bed or as a wall hanging. You keep the funny, but reduce shirts.

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