Sunday Blitherings
Feb. 8th, 2009 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
r_scribblesWeekend, weekend, where did you go? Oh well, with Hubs still off, every day's like a holiday!
Trying to write an original short film script at the moment for a contest. Got really far with it yesterday then decided it needed a complete rewrite and have spent today ignoring it. I don't think I'll meet the deadline, do you? Oh well, I think it's a pretty good idea and I've got some nice dialogue in there already. If I don't enter the contest (or if I do and get nowhere) then at least I'll have it on standby for something else. The most annoying part of this is that the organisation I'm doing it for demand a writer's CV as part of your application. As hard as writing a well structured, original, engaging short film is, it's actually a greater work of fiction making my handful of original projects not look completely laughable :(
So yeah, I've been ignoring that today and putting my creative efforts instead into that very enjoyable hobby that will never count as Proper Writing to these Proper People - me fanfic! It doesn't help the case of my original work that the Rollercoaster bunnies are biting hard at the moment. I'm doing a Time's Arrow set story right now and have discovered that getting the lion's share of the ensemble cast together and settling them down for an evening in a cramped 19th Century Bedsit together creates a whole world of Hilarious Consequences. Seriously, they haven't actually done anything useful for several pages, it's been like a wonderful sandbox for me to have them just loiter around exchanging vaguely sarcastic witticisms with one another. Here, for example, is an excerpt of which I am particularly proud:
‘You know,’ recalled Tasha once Dr Crusher had left, ‘I noticed the police station was having a recruitment drive as well.’
‘It’d be pretty handy for finding Data and the Devidians if one of us was able to work as a Cop,’ Geordi added.
Tasha nodded and got to her feet. ‘No time like the present. I’ll go and talk with them now.’
‘Um.’ Deanna exchanged glances with Riker. ‘I’m afraid that Policeman is probably going to be another of those “no penis, no entry” jobs.’
Tasha deflated. ‘You’re kidding.’
‘Sorry,’ Deanna consoled.
‘Hey,’ announced Riker, cheerfully. ‘I have a penis! I can enrol instead. I might not be as good a cop as you’d be, Tasha, but it really would be handy for one of us to have Police access.’
Tasha sighed, despondently. ‘You’re fit, you’re strong, you’re smart… they’d take you on like a shot.’
‘First he hypothetically out-earns us down the docks,’ added Deanna with a mocking smile, ‘now this.’
‘Yeah,’ piped Tasha, still a little irked, ‘what is this; Hooray For Will’s Penis Day?’
‘Ladies, please.’ Riker grinned. ‘Every day is Hooray For Will’s Penis Day.’
‘Could people stop saying “penis”, please?’ added Picard from the stove. ‘Some of us are trying to make a nice cup of tea.’
-x-
Yeah. It's pretty much that, for about three pages at present :)
Oh, and I got more shiny, shiny banners from Tardos!
Great Photoshop job here!
I can't remember who orginally did this artwork for Janapurna, which is terrible! Help, anyone?
Yay for Collaborative Works! I'll have to go back and re-read the spoofs soon, they were great fun!
I was wondering how on Earth somebody was going to sum up the Magnum Opus in one image, but that's actually just right! I really like how it looks, too. Mmm. Moody.
Trying to write an original short film script at the moment for a contest. Got really far with it yesterday then decided it needed a complete rewrite and have spent today ignoring it. I don't think I'll meet the deadline, do you? Oh well, I think it's a pretty good idea and I've got some nice dialogue in there already. If I don't enter the contest (or if I do and get nowhere) then at least I'll have it on standby for something else. The most annoying part of this is that the organisation I'm doing it for demand a writer's CV as part of your application. As hard as writing a well structured, original, engaging short film is, it's actually a greater work of fiction making my handful of original projects not look completely laughable :(
So yeah, I've been ignoring that today and putting my creative efforts instead into that very enjoyable hobby that will never count as Proper Writing to these Proper People - me fanfic! It doesn't help the case of my original work that the Rollercoaster bunnies are biting hard at the moment. I'm doing a Time's Arrow set story right now and have discovered that getting the lion's share of the ensemble cast together and settling them down for an evening in a cramped 19th Century Bedsit together creates a whole world of Hilarious Consequences. Seriously, they haven't actually done anything useful for several pages, it's been like a wonderful sandbox for me to have them just loiter around exchanging vaguely sarcastic witticisms with one another. Here, for example, is an excerpt of which I am particularly proud:
‘You know,’ recalled Tasha once Dr Crusher had left, ‘I noticed the police station was having a recruitment drive as well.’
‘It’d be pretty handy for finding Data and the Devidians if one of us was able to work as a Cop,’ Geordi added.
Tasha nodded and got to her feet. ‘No time like the present. I’ll go and talk with them now.’
‘Um.’ Deanna exchanged glances with Riker. ‘I’m afraid that Policeman is probably going to be another of those “no penis, no entry” jobs.’
Tasha deflated. ‘You’re kidding.’
‘Sorry,’ Deanna consoled.
‘Hey,’ announced Riker, cheerfully. ‘I have a penis! I can enrol instead. I might not be as good a cop as you’d be, Tasha, but it really would be handy for one of us to have Police access.’
Tasha sighed, despondently. ‘You’re fit, you’re strong, you’re smart… they’d take you on like a shot.’
‘First he hypothetically out-earns us down the docks,’ added Deanna with a mocking smile, ‘now this.’
‘Yeah,’ piped Tasha, still a little irked, ‘what is this; Hooray For Will’s Penis Day?’
‘Ladies, please.’ Riker grinned. ‘Every day is Hooray For Will’s Penis Day.’
‘Could people stop saying “penis”, please?’ added Picard from the stove. ‘Some of us are trying to make a nice cup of tea.’
-x-
Yeah. It's pretty much that, for about three pages at present :)
Oh, and I got more shiny, shiny banners from Tardos!
Great Photoshop job here!
I can't remember who orginally did this artwork for Janapurna, which is terrible! Help, anyone?
Yay for Collaborative Works! I'll have to go back and re-read the spoofs soon, they were great fun!
I was wondering how on Earth somebody was going to sum up the Magnum Opus in one image, but that's actually just right! I really like how it looks, too. Mmm. Moody.
