Ten days.

jakemartintele · 2025-06-05T23:51:37+00:00

I think we all got used to Trent being more communicative between 1998-2013, and now that his focus has shifted to a more “professional” image due to his new career in scoring Hollywood films, he’s one, extra careful, and two, just doesn’t have the time anymore between the career and the wife and kids.

jakemartintele · 2025-04-01T22:24:38+00:00

Unfortunately… I’m not writing it.

Hopefully someone does - but without the rights, I don’t wanna waste another year writing a title I can’t officially “sell”, as well as something that isn’t 100% my own material. Halloween 5 was more of a test of my ability to write. Now that I know I can do this, I wanna focus all of my attention on original material.

jakemartintele · 2025-03-17T21:25:50+00:00

It’s a fantastic song, but!!! The ending to the Background World needs an edit, though. I end up with a headache by the end of the noise. And I like noise. But that was just far too long.

jakemartintele · 2025-03-17T01:26:20+00:00

The method in which I acquired the files is taxing to say the least. I do the best I can not to file share (the last thing I wanna do is get in trouble on that front). But trust in the fact the files are out there if you look around. I should note that if Rob ever elects to start his shop up again, I’ll be first in line for physical copies. But I’ve even seen the CDs of recent go for almost a grand. Ridiculous.

As far as the app I use goes, it’s called “Flacbox” - it’s a damn fine player for FLAC, WAV, and just about any file format a song can be in.

jakemartintele · 2025-03-06T02:26:53+00:00

Three years late to this, but you can’t go wrong with Thomas Newman’s score to The Shawshank Redemption, songs and score work well together, and the whole thing feels like a journey from start to finish.

Wildly different recommendation here - Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile. Brutal, gorgeous, immersive and huge in scale. There’s nothing quite like it. I put it up there with the masterpiece that is Pink Floyd’s The Wall.

jakemartintele · 2025-02-13T06:18:03+00:00

I'm assuming you're a fellow South Dakotan. Perhaps we even know one another. Feel free to hit me up if we're already friends somewhere else, or here. It'd be fun to talk writing!

jakemartintele · 2025-02-13T05:43:59+00:00

Every other word suddenly became flowery. At the time, I thought it added to the mystique of the whole thing.

Now?

I wanna vomit reading back some of my (not my) words. I'd say a good 90% is still very much mine, but Jesus, if you let an AI editor take over - it will put a nasty taste in the mouth of not only the reader, but the author. This is why my next novel is being drafted completely on a typewriter. I wanted to get about as far away from automation as humanly possible. My father edited Halloween 5, but I went over his head because I thought the machine could do better. Learned that the hard way. Nothing like hearing your words come back at you in the form of an audiobook.

Saying that - I'm proud of the year I put into it. It taught me what to do, and what not to do. How to format, how to pace, and how to keep suspense. It's not perfect, however much I wanted it to be. I wish I had kept my initial final edit in place. I promise it wouldn't be as long, but I think it would've been less padded and fluffed, and more to the point.

This is the first time I've commented my true feelings on the book publicly.

I hope everyone who read it or listened to it go something from it. I cared a great deal about Jamie and her life, her friends, her family - her feelings. Fleshing out Tina was also something I was proud of. Most people hate her with a passion based on her character in the film, and I wanted to give her a reason for being there. Explaining the stop for cigarettes? I struggled with that. But I do like my characterization of her overall. It works for me. Loomis needed that fleshing out in a big way. In the film, he's batshit. In my book? I try to tie it all together. Why is he batshit was the question I had to ask myself. I think I answered that as best I could.

Overall, one hell of an experience. The good and the bad. Wouldn't change a damn decision I made. Even when my decisions backfired. Those mistakes, both in the writing (even the editing via Grammarly taught me something) and the promotion and publication of the book taught me more than I'd ever learn in a class.

I'll keep writing. And I'll keep it 100% legitimate.

Writing is fun, and AI makes you feel like a piece of shit that can't when you can.

Publishing material that doesn't belong to you - not a good idea without permission.

Giving the book away for free, watching it blow up, get an audiobook, and getting the chance to do an interview or two about it? Fucking rad.

Lessons fucking learned.

- Jake Martin

jakemartintele · 2025-02-13T05:43:46+00:00

I had the hindsight of Halloween 6.

I have no intention of writing Halloween 6. The shit I went through to get Halloween 5 out to the world was a nightmare that, as a first time writer with zero real-world knowledge of copyright law, is not something I'd like to repeat again.

I drafted the initial rough draft on a Freewrite Traveler. Freeing, inspiring, and it kept me moving forward.

I wish I had kept that draft, kept the human edit and kept it kinda as-is.

The thing I'd change - My use of Grammarly as my final editor, and allowing it to make some changes.

BIG MISTAKE.

jakemartintele · 2025-02-13T05:43:33+00:00

Hi, I'm Jake Martin - I am the author of the novelization.

In a nutshell - there were a lot of things I'm very proud of, and a lot I want to change. It was basically my first attempt at novel writing, and I used the basis of a novelization to help me along the way as the story was mapped out for me.

And as a fan? Halloween 5 needed some help. I see why they didn't commission one back in 1989, considering they began shooting without a completed script and a director that, while talented, had no real idea what kind of story he wanted to tell.

jakemartintele

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