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Title: MIA: Faye Valentine.
Post by: Wickedly Yours E on Feb 13, 2007, 07:56:12 AM
Ever since her last bout of ill-advised postage about the faithfulness of men, Faye has been missing from the Sphere. This "unbiased" reporter has just one question:
Does Anyone Care?
Title: MIA: Faye Valentine.
Post by: B E C K on Feb 13, 2007, 12:47:11 PM
You do since you posted about it.
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Post by: IDE on Feb 13, 2007, 03:35:46 PM
She's probably getting railed as I type this.

Good for her.
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Post by: Merla on Feb 13, 2007, 05:35:44 PM
She either went on vacation or on a huge shopping spree.  
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 13, 2007, 08:47:56 PM
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You do since you posted about it.
Awwww...E wants to be Faye to be his valentine... :lol:






























I kid...  I kid...  Heh, Faye Valentine... LOL.
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Post by: Guest on Feb 13, 2007, 09:36:40 PM
..............I'ma throw up now.

-Wicked E
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 13, 2007, 10:46:42 PM
You choo-choose her.
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Post by: Rama on Feb 13, 2007, 11:36:37 PM
I killed her and buried her next to Holy Hero.  
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Post by: Wickedly Yours E on Feb 13, 2007, 11:44:48 PM
You BASTARD!!!! You killed the Holy Hero!!!
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Post by: Rama on Feb 13, 2007, 11:46:30 PM
No...I just said I buried her next to him. Never said I killed him.









But I did.  
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Post by: Max Con on Feb 14, 2007, 12:06:18 AM
Where am I buried?
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 14, 2007, 12:11:46 AM
The Pet Cemetary.
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Post by: Rama on Feb 14, 2007, 04:35:43 AM
Which in retrospect, may have been a mistake.  
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Post by: Wickedly Yours E on Feb 14, 2007, 08:28:47 AM
...Wait....Max Con's a Zombie?
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 14, 2007, 01:13:08 PM
We're all zombies.  And grandpa's a vampire.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 14, 2007, 02:32:01 PM
(http://www.papigiulio.com/images/movies/poster_vampirecopricky.jpg)
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Post by: IDE on Feb 14, 2007, 04:49:19 PM
The Great Yokai war I pirated from INTERNET had french subtitles...so now I'm getting the much bigger file with ENG ones.
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Post by: Derrick on Feb 14, 2007, 09:11:41 PM
No Faye?

*sniff*

I can dig it. No more tuna smell!
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 14, 2007, 11:09:59 PM
That dumb vampire looks like a dude and a fifty year old woman at the same time.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 11, 2007, 08:35:56 AM
wtf I smell like vanilla and roses!

Awww E cares <3 <3 <3


 
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Post by: Derrick on Mar 11, 2007, 12:01:45 PM
I guess even Japanese Vampires can't do their job properly. Damnit.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 11, 2007, 09:46:48 PM
Faye-Faye!  <3  *dry-humps her leg*
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Post by: Derrick on Mar 11, 2007, 09:54:35 PM
*Videotapes this for Girls Gone Wild*
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 11, 2007, 10:14:11 PM
I haven't "gone wild".  This is a very tasteful hump, thank you.
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Post by: Derrick on Mar 11, 2007, 10:48:12 PM
I think Faye is enjoying it.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 11, 2007, 10:53:30 PM
Well of course she is...she isn't wearing suede shoes.  
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 12, 2007, 09:59:40 PM
:lol:  ew god stop! men are nasty. but, Rama, I have to give you "5 cool points" because you knew that suede shoes can't/shouldn't get wet!

I would dry hump Nuri's leg if I knew how to dry hump. Samantha (SATC) humped her then lesbian gf and her back got all screwed up. I wonder if women can hump like men without the pre-exercise, hmmm..

I'm sorry if what I'm saying doesn't make sense, at this time of the night I can't even remember my own name
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Post by: Derrick on Mar 12, 2007, 10:31:56 PM
What is your name, anyways?
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Post by: Rama on Mar 12, 2007, 10:37:27 PM
Five bucks and I'll tell ya.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 12, 2007, 10:59:41 PM
As board owner, I get a 4.99 commission.
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Post by: Wickedly Yours E on Mar 13, 2007, 08:04:42 AM
She's back! Hide the women and children!
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Post by: Rama on Mar 13, 2007, 11:45:10 AM
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As board owner, I get a 4.99 commission.
The Man is always keeping me down.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 13, 2007, 10:42:55 PM
Welcome to the real world, sonny.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 13, 2007, 11:04:09 PM
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The Man is always keeping me down.
It's easier for him to screw you that way. And by "him" I mean "The Man" by which I mean RE.

But not Resident Evil, no.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 13, 2007, 11:20:28 PM
The Royal Engineers?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 13, 2007, 11:23:16 PM
Rump Eaters.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 13, 2007, 11:33:35 PM
Slasher horror star Robert Englund?  
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 13, 2007, 11:38:04 PM
Wait, is that what Faye really looks like?

She seems so Rambunctiously Exotic!
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Post by: Rama on Mar 13, 2007, 11:42:41 PM
No, but if you bug her enough she'll show you. Just ask Shelly.  
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 13, 2007, 11:46:07 PM
Heh. I heard all about Shelly and Faye's Sexcellent Adventure. Scandalous!
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Post by: Derrick on Mar 13, 2007, 11:46:56 PM
She did the turtle? She must like cheese.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 13, 2007, 11:47:21 PM
Recreated years later by Bill and Ted in a DTV sequel.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 13, 2007, 11:49:03 PM
Oh don't tease me woman!  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 13, 2007, 11:53:13 PM
You're gay for Bill and Ted?
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Post by: Rama on Mar 13, 2007, 11:54:08 PM
Well I wouldn't say gay...but the idea of another Bill and Ted movie does make it move a little.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 13, 2007, 11:55:20 PM
Are you sure?  Maybe that's a death rattle.  :joe:
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2007, 12:01:35 AM
If it didn't die after that accident with the blowdryer...I think it can  survie this.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2007, 12:04:14 AM
Maybe it's a zombie now, living off of zombie powets.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2007, 12:05:00 AM
That'd make a good movie.

:: Writes all this down. ::  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2007, 12:06:03 AM
I even have a title for the second one:  ZOMBIE PENIS II:  DRACULA DILDO'S REVENGE.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2007, 12:11:15 AM
Wait Wait Wait....Dracula? Are we having blood sucking tally wackers as well?  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2007, 12:13:53 AM
ZOMBIE PENIS III:  THE PUSSY WOLFEN!
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2007, 12:17:56 AM
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. First movie can be stand alone. After we get the returns we can start planing sequels.  
Title: MIA: Faye Valentine.
Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2007, 12:20:33 AM
ZOMBIE PENIS IV: THE OMEGA ASS!
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2007, 12:24:53 AM
This is why none of our movies ever get made...you can never focus.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2007, 12:29:49 AM
I know.  :(















ZOMBIE PENIS V:  ANALIEN VS. SEXUAL PREDATOR!
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 14, 2007, 12:29:56 AM
Zombie Penis VI: Fun With Cock and Jane
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2007, 12:33:45 AM
If one of these doesn't end it "The Wrath of Balls." I'm going to be disappointed.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2007, 12:48:23 AM
Fine.  ZOMBIE PENIS VII: WRATH OF BALLS!









William Shatner:  BAAALLLLLLLLLSSS!!
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2007, 11:35:17 AM
Oh if we could actually get Shatner, that would be godly.  
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Post by: Wickedly Yours E on Mar 14, 2007, 10:59:09 PM
ZOMBIE PENIS VIII: COCKY BALL-BOA!
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2007, 11:18:11 PM
ZOMBIE PENIS IX: REVENGE OF THE RADIOACTIVE DINGLEBERRIES!!
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2007, 11:37:11 PM
Plots for these would be nice. Titles are easy, plots are hard.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2007, 11:45:27 PM
I thought the plot for the last one would be obvious.  The dingleberries, which are radioactive, are seeking zombie penis, for revenge, because he devoured their young, who were also radioactive and dingleberries.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2007, 11:56:27 PM
Yes but HOW did they get radioactive. That's the heart and soul of your story. Anyone can have zombie penis out for revenge, but not everyone can tell a really good story about how they became the misunderstood monsters that they are.  
Title: MIA: Faye Valentine.
Post by: B E C K on Mar 15, 2007, 03:09:07 AM
A dude slipped into a puddle of radioactive waste leaking from a barrel that fell from the back of truck.  We'll have the origin story out of the way before "Directed by John Waters" even flashes on the screen.
Title: MIA: Faye Valentine.
Post by: Rama on Mar 15, 2007, 12:11:23 PM
So you want a Pretitle sequence, or are we going to tell it during the titles.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 15, 2007, 11:41:00 PM
During titles.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 15, 2007, 11:56:12 PM
Bah! You shouldn't underestimate the impact of a good pre-title sequence.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 16, 2007, 03:13:25 AM
A waste of film and budget.  It can all be told during opening titles.  And if people don't care about the origin, they can read to pass the time.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 16, 2007, 03:14:17 AM
ZOMBIE PENIS X:  RECTAL RECKONING!


This one will feature a King Kong-style hamster.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 25, 2007, 12:12:43 PM
:lol:  :lol:

nastiness.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 25, 2007, 11:22:16 PM
You see, Dumb-Rama?  It would totally sell on camp alone!
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Post by: Rama on Mar 26, 2007, 12:28:40 AM
It's Faye.

I rest my case.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 26, 2007, 12:33:43 PM
And the Fayes of the world are a very powerful consumer base.  I rest MY case.  On top of my piles and piles of money.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 26, 2007, 01:35:57 PM
Fine you just keep your money and I'll keep my Oscar and we'll just do our own projects from now on. I guess...*SNIFF*...Nurama productions is just over now.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 26, 2007, 01:39:51 PM
I was planning on ditching you once we got our first hit anyway.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 26, 2007, 02:05:54 PM
And if it had been one of my ideas? Would have leeched till you had your own?  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 26, 2007, 05:32:57 PM
I have plenty of ideas, I just need money.  I would take my portion of the money and go start up my own shit w/o you.  Then I'll be all "see bi-atch!  this zombie penis franchise is huge!!111" and ten years later I'll do an interview with People lamenting on why everyone knows me as the "Zombie Penis chick".
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 26, 2007, 09:03:33 PM
I'll give you money if you kick Rama in the butt!
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Post by: Rama on Mar 27, 2007, 12:38:29 AM
Can I have it if I kick myself in the butt?


And besides everyone needs help from someone, sometime. No one made it all on their own ever. Shouldn't be so quick to burn bridges.

I know I'd kill for a writing partner. But I'm so damn fickle on what goes on in my books that unless this person was just a fantastic writer that simply never had any ideas of their own it'd be almost impossible to make it work for any length   of time. Most of the other writers I've meet are either too involed in there own stuff to partner up on a project that they didn't come up with, or want to take it over.(Had a few that commented on how in depth my "World" is and what they could do with it.) I'm pretty anal about creative control, however. A ghost writer would work, but 1. I don't want to pay them, And 2. I'd feel wrong taking all the credit myself. Unlike that bitch Tom Clancy that didn't write half the books with his name on them.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 27, 2007, 01:21:30 AM
But it's just a bridge to you.  :lol:  I see what you mean about getting help sometimes.  At the very least, multiple people would keep a project moving where one person may stop.  But I'm fickle about what goes on with my characters-- well with my main story anyway, since everything else I do is parody-type stuff-- and I don't meet a whole lot of other writers anyway.  If I ever tried to recruit help, I would still want to do the bulk of the work.

I don't know how well I could work in someone else's world.  I tried writing fanfiction a couple of times some years back and just plain stopped because the characters slipped into the personalities of my own characters.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 27, 2007, 03:00:50 AM
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But it's just a bridge to you.  :lol: 
Yeah, Yeah...laugh it up. But I am serious about this, if I was ever in a postion that I could help you with something, I would. You'd just have to ask. At the moment I'm pretty knee deep in bullshit myself.


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I see what you mean about getting help sometimes.  At the very least, multiple people would keep a project moving where one person may stop.

You see that's what I was thinking too. Have eight months worth of writers block really pushed things back. I should be opening rejections letter by now. Plus I find the actual act of writing rather tedious. I've been told I'm good at it, and I've compared it to other authors and It's not so bad...but it's something I have to make myself do. I enjoy working out plot points, creating characters, things like that. And I like to write dialouge, but filling in the stuff between is sometimes a headache for me. In fact I'm doing it right now.

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But I'm fickle about what goes on with my characters-- well with my main story anyway, since everything else I do is parody-type stuff-- and I don't meet a whole lot of other writers anyway.  If I ever tried to recruit help, I would still want to do the bulk of the work.

As am I. I've already considered that if another writer wanted to explore my world I'd allow it, as long as they stayed away from my two main characters. Their story has become such a part of me, that I don't think I want anyone else to touch them. Course after I'm dead I'm sure all my heirs will sell the rights to any yahoo that will give them the money, but as long as I'm alive I won't let anyone else touch them.

And I've only half heartly looked for help. I'll talk to some other writers and hint that If I only had someone that could fill in the gaps that I'm having trouble with that it'd be really awesome. They've basicly said "Yeah that would help." and then nothing else. Ah well...most of them worked with Scripts anyway  which are 90% dialouge. The one thing I don't have have trouble with. I don't really need much help. I have a really tight plot that I've been working on the whole 8 months I couldn't write. I have a detailed outline for the entire novel, lots of Dialouge, and a complete first draft for a person to work off of. I'm just afraid I'm going to sitting around saying "When I finish my book" forever and never get it done. When I started I only planned to take 6 months on this one and that was 2 years ago.

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I don't know how well I could work in someone else's world.  I tried writing fanfiction a couple of times some years back and just plain stopped because the characters slipped into the personalities of my own characters.

I havn'e tried it, but I'd be willing too. I'd love to write a Bond novel if I ever got the chance. Since his heirs have basicly done what I hope mine don't...I don't know though.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 27, 2007, 12:31:08 PM
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And I like to write dialouge, but filling in the stuff between is sometimes a headache for me. In fact I'm doing it right now.
Yeah, the dialogue interaction pretty much flows out better than the plot and the descriptions.  I read an interview with Isabel Allende, who writes something or other for Zorro, and she had this tip about writing whatever came to you as long you were writing like a couple of pages of day.  Eventually there would be a book there.  However, for my own stuff, I can't help but think people may not be interested in reading as much as seeing it such as in the form of a comic.  So I alternate between writing and trying to brush up on my drawing.  Idealistically, I would like to write the whole thing and then draw the whole thing.  Optimistically someday I will.  Pessimistically, I'll be 80 whenever I'm done.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 27, 2007, 04:13:13 PM
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I read an interview with Isabel Allende, who writes something or other for Zorro, and she had this tip about writing whatever came to you as long you were writing like a couple of pages of day.Eventually there would be a book there.


Well she is right about that. I try to do at least one a day. Sometimes I only do 3/4 a page, sometimes I get 4-5 depends on my my mood and what I'm writing. If I'm depressed...which I seem to be more and more these days, I don't do very well. I just look at it and think it's not good enough. Takes all my will powet not to delete it all. I'm always glad I didn't cause when I'm in a better mood and go back over it I realize it wasn't as bad as I thought it was.

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However, for my own stuff, I can't help but think people may not be interested in reading as much as seeing it such as in the form of a comic. So I alternate between writing and trying to brush up on my drawing. Idealistically, I would like to write the whole thing and then draw the whole thing. Optimistically someday I will. Pessimistically, I'll be 80 whenever I'm done.


Yeah, I think mine would better be seen then read. Not as comic though, but as a movie. And writing a screenplay is uber easy compared to a novel. The reason I didn't do it that way was because everyone one and their uncle is writing a screenplay. How do you get your noticed when everyother person is trying to do the same thing? My second reason is that creative control thing again. Unless you write, produce, and direct a movie..you have to give creative control up to someone else. With a novel, it's all in your hand. A lot of the important rights like merchandising stay with the author as well. Those go to studio when you make a movie. And third it's just a good time to try to sell a book. Publishers are buying right now, thanks a boom in the book sales. And you can make a good living and maybe even get rich writing book now. J.K. Rowling was the first person ever to make a billion dollar as a author. And Dan Brown is pulling down 76 million a year. Now granted you have to have a book that sells really well, but there is the potenial there.

And hey if you get really good with drawing and you need some extra cash, I got a children's book that I need a artist for. I'd rather do it myself, but I've been out of pratcie and I know I'm not good enough. Unless you have the same problem with drawing that you do with writing and find it hard to work in with someone elses creations.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 27, 2007, 05:05:24 PM
I did that for Merla on two occassions as a kid, so maybe so.


I actually wanted to do mine as an animated cartoon ever since I was like five years old, but I'd rather have source material to work from before I even consider anything like that.  At the very least, I would like to eventually at least have a pilot done, even if that means I have to personally raise the funds.  But I don't want to go that far unless I already have a solid story, and I don't have that yet.
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Post by: Wickedly Yours E on Mar 27, 2007, 09:24:03 PM
Dialogue is a breeze. My own story has been sidelined for....YEARGH too long, but I can still remember what I want because of DIALOGUE. I can do dialogue....but everything else turns verbose and superfluous...Which tends to be the way all my writing turns out, as my Copy Editor has complained.
It's not so much the witty dialogue that sticks either. The interaction between the two romantic/dramatic characters that drives me...not very masculine but meh. The action side of things are secondary to me, though that can swap on a dime too.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 27, 2007, 10:17:19 PM
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I did that for Merla on two occassions as a kid, so maybe so.

Cool. We'll see how things go. I want to get few novels at first.

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I actually wanted to do mine as an animated cartoon ever since I was like five years old, but I'd rather have source material to work from before I even consider anything like that. At the very least, I would like to eventually at least have a pilot done, even if that means I have to personally raise the funds. But I don't want to go that far unless I already have a solid story, and I don't have that yet.

Hell I'll give you the cash if I have it. All ask is a producer credit. Course that's if everything works just like a plan it. But I must warn you, nothing ever works out like I plan it too. So you may want to keep trying to raise the money yourself. :lol:

So would you want like name VA or unknowns? Cause the unknowns will save you a lot of cash, but they could also suck ass. Hence why they are unknown. And you going to have an American company or Japanesse company animate?  

If I can't get a movie version made (I actually wrote my novel with the thought of it being made into a movie later in mind.) a TV series would be cool. In either a movie or TV show I wanted it done with real actors and CGI backgrounds. Much like Sin City  and Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow where done.

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It's not so much the witty dialogue that sticks either. The interaction between the two romantic/dramatic characters that drives me...not very masculine but meh. The action side of things are secondary to me, though that can swap on a dime too.

See I work so different then that. I will come up with action and then link it together in some way. So I'll come up with some scene that I want to use and then I'll find a place for it and fit it in. And Romantic stuff is rather diffcult for me to write. In fact I had my two main chracters in my 2nd book orginally fall in love during the course of the book. It didn't work as well as I had hoped. So instead I had it where they had a history before the book and that it had not ended well, and now she is rahter bitter and mean towards him as they forced back together by things that niether of them can control and that worked so much better.  
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Post by: Wickedly Yours E on Mar 27, 2007, 10:35:37 PM
See I worked like that too. The two chars in question had history before the book that's never quite explained (I had an idea for a prequel book), other than they were both deeply in love, and then something major happened that ended up with one captured in The War, and one blowing up half the known universe, and then looking for the other one due to an intense guilt of maybe blowing the other person up too.

...It's a long story. It's cool.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 27, 2007, 10:59:46 PM
Mine is told through flashbacks in the 2nd book. When you first meet them (well that's not true she shows up in the first book as a brief cameo, which I did just cause I wanted her in the first book.) you'd think one of them had killed the other one's mother or something the way they fight, but as the story goes on you see in flashbacks how they meet and all that important stuff and you also learn what caused the downfall of their releationship. This is all being told as we move forward with the main story Highlander style. I don't have anything as grand as the universe getting blown up, since my books are set on earth in the near future.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 28, 2007, 12:30:03 AM
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So would you want like name VA or unknowns? Cause the unknowns will save you a lot of cash, but they could also suck ass. Hence why they are unknown. And you going to have an American company or Japanesse company animate?
I would actually like to do unknowns for this specific project, especially any regional singing talent.  The location of the story is actual here, so getting people from around this area could work very well.  I have given it some thought and if I were able to do so, I'd scout the acting communities in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas as well as the musical acts around here since I want to incorporate music.  I'm not planning a musical or anything, but I would like an opening and closing theme and one of the characters is a singer so I would ideally like an actor who can sing for him.  Also, I have multiple characters with accents and I'd, again ideally, like to use people who actually have those accents, can imitate them with subtlety, or at least have a large familiarity with what a genuine one sounds like.  The villains and side characters are negotiable on how good their accent may sound, but I have an Australian and and an Irishman that are main characters and I don't want them sounding all Steve Irwin and Lucky Charms.  If I have to record those sorts from larger more international cities like New York or LA, I just may.  I also toyed with the idea of doing a simulatenous Spanish dub for release in the Southwest region and Mexico.  I don't know how well that would work out or how much the Spanish speaking market would even have interest in what I'm doing, but I thought it was still a neat idea nonetheless.

I don't want anything too flat-looking or saturated, like my arch-enemy TMNT: Fast Forward.  If it looked like the pre-Fast Forward Turtles, I wouldn't mind.  Since I haven't really looked into it, I don't know how far we've come with Flash so I'm wary of it.  I would like to incoporate some of the techniques used by anime though the look doesn't have to flow that way.  I don't know if this would necessarily mean ADR (thus bringing in the complication with the VAs having to match lips) or what.  I think if the actors didn't have match lips, it may give them the freedom they need to sound the best they can.  I don't know if it would be shipped overseas or not, that would depend on cost.  Likely, I would think so.  There are likely cheaper places than Japan to animate something, but for a mere pilot I'm not certain if that would be done entirely in states or what.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 28, 2007, 01:07:14 AM
I like that you want to use local people. I just hope the unions don't come down on you. Don't know how much trouble you'd have with that in Texas. I'd say none, but with Funimations HQ and stuido in Huston, I don't know.

And I've thought about using local bands for Music before. There is a band called Faatherton around here that I've become a pretty big fan of. I was thinking of contacting them, or at least the guy that writes their songs,  to do a "Theme" song for my main character to use on my web page when I get it up and running, and maybe more music for other connected Media down the line.

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I don't know how far we've come with Flash so I'm wary of it.

Well I do know the entire pilot for the Venture Bros. was done in Flash. That was a couple years ago and it looked pretty good, but you could still tell it was Flash.  
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Post by: Wickedly Yours E on Mar 28, 2007, 08:25:28 AM
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Mine is told through flashbacks in the 2nd book. When you first meet them (well that's not true she shows up in the first book as a brief cameo, which I did just cause I wanted her in the first book.) you'd think one of them had killed the other one's mother or something the way they fight, but as the story goes on you see in flashbacks how they meet and all that important stuff and you also learn what caused the downfall of their releationship. This is all being told as we move forward with the main story Highlander style. I don't have anything as grand as the universe getting blown up, since my books are set on earth in the near future.
Well, specifically planets containing large military presences...which included Earth. Now they're wastelands.

....Anyway.
I've used Flash before. It's tricky when you start and can take a lot of getting used to, but once you get it down? It's pretty easy.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 28, 2007, 10:21:58 AM
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I like that you want to use local people. I just hope the unions don't come down on you. Don't know how much trouble you'd have with that in Texas. I'd say none, but with Funimations HQ and stuido in Huston, I don't know.
Yeah, I thought about that.  Especially if I ended up recording people from places with greater union pressence.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 28, 2007, 03:07:31 PM
Yeah it might be better to look for people and a place to record in a more rural area. Like I know if I recorded something like that here, no union would even know about it till the thing was already out. Rual would cost you less as well, but the problem is I doubt you'd find the kind of varitety in accents that you are looking for.

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Well, specifically planets containing large military presences...which included Earth. Now they're wastelands.

Well there is no space travel in my book, despite the fact that it's a Sci-Fi novel. I know that's kinda like having a Fantasy book where no one has a sword, but I wanted to keep it somewhat groundeded in reality. I actually cut stuff back. In the first draft it was set in the year 2252, and the main chracter had a laser gun and drove a hover car, but now it's the year 2052 and there is no laser guns or flying cars.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 30, 2007, 08:40:46 PM
Well you've written the first book you had planned already, haven't you?  You just need to edit or somethin'?


How far along is your story, E?
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Post by: Rama on Mar 31, 2007, 01:10:51 AM
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Well you've written the first book you had planned already, haven't you?  You just need to edit or somethin'?


 
Not exactly. I wish that was the case actually. I have people that have been willing to edit it for me. So that wouldn't even be any work for me. They'd edit...I'd add the edits and then off to the publishers.

I have a complete first draft. The story had changed so much that it was easier to  rewrite the whole thing rather then going back and changing only what needed to be changed. I'm about 3-4 chapers into this rewrite. I don't plan to do another rewrite after this one. I'm going to have it edited and change anything I need to, but this is my last complete rewrite. They just take too long. I need to get this done and sent out by late summer at least. I just can't go another year still polishing. I'm a prefectionist and a "negative nacy". Those don't seem to mix well. So I have to just get this done and send it out and accept it'll never be perfect.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 31, 2007, 01:22:48 AM
I think that's my problem, too.  I always want to go back and constantly retool, which makes it better but not any more done.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 31, 2007, 01:36:45 AM
Exactly. I just read it and know I could do better. I don't always know how to make it better, but I know it could be. That drives me nuts. I've pushed in all my chips on this one...I don't have a sucessful carrer and in law and am just doing this on the side. So if this doesn't work out, I don't have a plan to fall back on. So I have to make this work, and I get the feelin that if I get through this it will. I can't explain it, but I just got this feeling that this will be what I'll be known for.

I've felt that since the day I started this. Usually story ideas would come, I'd work on them for a few months, then the notes and drawings would go into a file and that'd be the end of it. Not this though. I've been working on this, and it's eight sequels for almost 2 years now and it hasn't gotten old or stale for me and I've kept working on it. I just think this is it for me....again if I ever get the balls up to actually send it off.  
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 31, 2007, 01:58:10 AM
How does that even work anymore?  Do you send off a paper manuscript or can you just burn it on a CD now?
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Post by: Rama on Mar 31, 2007, 02:07:34 AM
Depends on the publisher. Some yes...some no. I prefer the paper manuscript myself.