Author Topic: MIA: Faye Valentine. (Read 6446 times)

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #60 on:** Mar 14, 2007, 10:59:09 PM »

ZOMBIE PENIS VIII: COCKY BALL-BOA!

B E C K · « **Reply #61 on:** Mar 14, 2007, 11:18:11 PM »

ZOMBIE PENIS IX: REVENGE OF THE RADIOACTIVE DINGLEBERRIES!!

Rama · « **Reply #62 on:** Mar 14, 2007, 11:37:11 PM »

Plots for these would be nice. Titles are easy, plots are hard.

B E C K · « **Reply #63 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.

Rama · « **Reply #64 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.

B E C K · « **Reply #65 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.

Rama · « **Reply #66 on:** Mar 15, 2007, 12:11:23 PM »

So you want a Pretitle sequence, or are we going to tell it during the titles.

B E C K · « **Reply #67 on:** Mar 15, 2007, 11:41:00 PM »

During titles.

Rama · « **Reply #68 on:** Mar 15, 2007, 11:56:12 PM »

Bah! You shouldn't underestimate the impact of a good pre-title sequence.

B E C K · « **Reply #69 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.

B E C K · « **Reply #70 on:** Mar 16, 2007, 03:14:17 AM »

ZOMBIE PENIS X: RECTAL RECKONING!

This one will feature a King Kong-style hamster.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #71 on:** Mar 25, 2007, 12:12:43 PM »

nastiness.

B E C K · « **Reply #72 on:** Mar 25, 2007, 11:22:16 PM »

You see, Dumb-Rama? It would totally sell on camp alone!

Rama · « **Reply #73 on:** Mar 26, 2007, 12:28:40 AM »

It's Faye.

I rest my case.

B E C K · « **Reply #74 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.

Rama · « **Reply #75 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.

B E C K · « **Reply #76 on:** Mar 26, 2007, 01:39:51 PM »

I was planning on ditching you once we got our first hit anyway.

Rama · « **Reply #77 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?

B E C K · « **Reply #78 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".

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #79 on:** Mar 26, 2007, 09:03:33 PM »

I'll give you money if you kick Rama in the butt!

Rama · « **Reply #80 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.

B E C K · « **Reply #81 on:** Mar 27, 2007, 01:21:30 AM »

But it's just a bridge to you.

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.

Rama · « **Reply #82 on:** Mar 27, 2007, 03:00:50 AM »

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But it's just a bridge to you.

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.

B E C K · « **Reply #83 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.

Rama · « **Reply #84 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.

B E C K · « **Reply #85 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.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #86 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.

Rama · « **Reply #87 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.

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.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #88 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.

Rama · « **Reply #89 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.