And what a bright day!  I recently signed up for Script Frenzy, which is basically a one month (April) project to get writers writing.  The challenge, write a one hundred page script for Movie, tv, or graphic novel, in any style or genre you want, as long as it follows the standard guidelines for the specific medium (that is, formatting of the pages).

I've got thirteen days now to figure out my concept, my format, my everything, and I think after a long day (hence the belated posting) I've come to the most obvious conclusion.  But first, I'll tell you my other ideas.

First I had thought of a graphic novel in the spec fic genres, something of a futuristic Gulliver's Travels, about a migrant worker's experiences in a Utopian (by my standards) society with parallels to modern Singapore and to some of the earned citizenship theories of Heinlein's Starship Troopers.  Don't get me wrong, I probably won't abandon this idea, even if it never becomes a graphic.  The idea of a young man struggling, failing, then struggling again in a foreign culture interests me, and it lets me wave my freak flag in talking about my pseudo-libertarian socio-political values. 

My second idea, this time a movie, is another one I don't plan on abandoning but can only let it live as a movie (All you fledgling directors reading this, gimme a shout!).  The story would follow a retired super hero (I had toyed with the idea of calling him nothing but "Awesome" for a hero name, suitably cliched for the satire I wanted to make) whose slipped into a bit of a dementia after all these years of menial jobs and dreaming of his glory days.  He finally snaps and begins fighting crime again, imagining his sidekick, his old allies, and even his old enemies.  Long story short, he'd actually save the day and die trying without really knowing it.

Alas, logic and reason gave way to these dreams of other projects, and I've focused on taking my current steampunk content and making it a movie script.  As I see it, if I can write a one hundred page script, I can easily turn it into a proper novel as I originally imagined it.  I'm playing with the title now, but as I expected a series to grow from it, I think I'll call it "The Void: Taleasia" with future installments being "The Void: XXX."  It will follow a young but haunted hero who fought, and lost, in rebellion against Barton Wod's unification thrust, and will end up discovering the secrets of the "Great Unifier."  Stay tuned, you'll learn more later.

Yup, a short and entirely informal post, but its almost midnight and I have other things on my plate.  Thanks for reading, and please comment as you see fit.