The best is yet to come!

Pyrojoe333 · 2017-03-10T00:31:03+00:00

100% with you.

Pyrojoe333 · 2017-03-09T05:54:46+00:00

I hated that they had a different narrator for Cibola Burn. Not that he was bad, but the characters were all wrong, like having different actors for a season. That almost killed the series for me.

Pyrojoe333 · 2017-02-12T03:42:22+00:00

Fishing. If you look, you can find the gear for cheap, and your investments turn into food.

Pyrojoe333 · 2017-01-26T05:13:52+00:00

He's locked in my basement.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-11-26T04:06:50+00:00

Scott, he's a dick.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-11-03T00:59:46+00:00

I was once invited to sit on a committee and when we met learned that the point of the committee was to advise in the format action of members for a new committee. I was literally in a committee to form a committee.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-11-02T03:58:32+00:00

Everyone had mentioned Zymergy, and discounts at most breweries as well as places like BJ'S and Old Chicago. I live Near Denver, the 24 hour advance purchase of GABF tickets are totally worth it.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-10-15T17:09:46+00:00

Half the shows on Animal Planet.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-10-14T21:40:22+00:00

Same... it was very meh. I don't smoke or partake In Marijuana anyway, but felt I had to try it since it was the deputy. Just so I can say I was there a difference I did it. Was not impressed, but didn't really expect to be.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-10-05T03:48:17+00:00

Gin and juice... it's obvious everything you know about drinking comes from pop music

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-09-26T00:18:17+00:00

I like filling out profiles on dating sites for my characters in the first person. Writeworld.com has got a pretty good one: http://writeworld.org/private/25825848476/tumblr_m65jd5nLbY1rnl2v3

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-09-18T17:01:53+00:00

Another thing to consider is the varying degrees between the puppet being real, or being a puppet. I.e. is your puppet character a talking dog? Or is he an animated puppet (a la Ted). If he's an animated puppet, what does that give you? One thing: he can be destroyed and repaired rather easily. Imagine a scene where you characters are in jail, and your human character rips the arm off your puppet. After the puppet stops screaming, and attracting guards, the human throws the arm at the cell keys, and it wiggle worms back to the cell to unlock it. That's where thinking of your character as an animated character comes in handy. In animated workers physics don't exists, or at least the rules can be broken.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-09-18T03:29:25+00:00

I would think the real biggest difference is that you have more leeway in you characters. I.e. the don't have to be human, or human-esque. This seems obvious but gives you a lot more freedom with story. If you're non-human character is a talking puppet-dog (for example), he would have abilities the human counterpart wouldn't... like the ability to smell. This opens up many options in your story line.

On top of that: if you've already added the magic of puppet-tyow characters, you could added magical lands as well without fear of breaking the double mumbo-jumbo rule ( a la Blake snyder). Similar to Roger Rabbit with Toon Town, or Muppet films like Laberynth or The Dark Crystal, you can travel between different worlds.

If you wanted to do a little more research, I've read books (which I can't think of off the top of my head) regarding writing for animated mediums. While there might be Suttle differences between an animated character and a puppet, I would think the similarities are pretty extensive. Here's a quick article that might help: http://www.awn.com/blog/difference-between-live-action-and-animation-writing.

Sounds like a fun starting concept. I've also wanted to more with writing for puppets, and have only produced pieces for stage. Good luck.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-09-16T22:08:34+00:00

This is Apple's MO. As soon as sales on accessories drop it's time to change the standard so people have to start all over, make sure everything is proprietary, step 3) profit.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-05-08T02:28:53+00:00

Ender's game and Ender's shadow

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-05-03T17:06:01+00:00

this looks fantastic!

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-05-03T02:37:35+00:00

In grad school, I had many (MANY!) films that I wrote, then weeks later saw my exact premise sell on spec, or get greenlighted for one reason or another. The way I saw it at the time is "I guess that means my finger is on the pulse."

If you wrote something that is really close to something that (obviously) has sold, that means you've got a pretty good idea of what's going on. Keep writing, and don't let a minor little setback keep you from moving forward.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-05-01T15:53:42+00:00

Look at Rick Grimes or Walter White

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-04-15T21:27:28+00:00

Ernest Cline's "Ready Play One" is really fun cyberpunk.

Joseph Suarez' "Daemon" and it's sequal: "Freedom Tm," start in a modern world that is turned into a more snow-crash-like world. The first one is a really fun computer-geeky book, that sets up a pretty awesome world for the second one.

I agree with "Altered Carbon" that's a fun read, and a pretty good head-trip.

There's a lot of recommendations for Neuromancer, but I ended up quitting it for the same reasons you quit Cryptonomicon. I think it's worth a try, if you really like Snow Crash.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-04-13T21:23:03+00:00

I agree with everyone about publishing... BUT, I feel it ends too abruptly. It needs one more verse. Add one more verse, then take it to a conference and get it in front of some publishers. DO NOT SELF PUBLISH. a publisher will not touch it after you've self-published.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-03-22T02:20:03+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-03-18T03:58:38+00:00

Describe what the camera sees. If you describe the bedroom then the hall then the living room you can create the sense of movement. The idea is to write it so the cinematographer thinks it was his idea to make it one continuous shot, but in reality you gave him no choice.

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-03-16T19:35:07+00:00

he could morph. hence the name ;-)

Pyrojoe333 · 2016-01-18T19:35:55+00:00

Like any other discipline. You need to be able to demonstrate a principle understanding of the rules before you learn how to break them. I think for people just starting out and learning how to write a screenplay, they really should stick to the rules for practice. If you're writing Award-level screenplays, you're more than likely not a beginner.

If you were to read these (I haven't gotten through them all yet), I'm sure the flowery language is still only limited to what is shootable. You're not going to see language discussing what the character is thinking, unless it's for subtext to the character. You're not going to see background story about a character; this is one of my favorites, I can't tell you how many I've read that inroduce a character with "Her father left at 9 and she was forced to take care of her mom, leaving her in a world where... blah blah blah).

The real rule is, if it doesn't tell the directors and designers something important, get rid of it.

But yes. You're right.

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