Smurf Club
It’s been a long while since I’ve updated. It’s been a crazy and incredibly busy and difficult winter, but now that the snow is gone (it seems dumb to type that on April 20, yet I’m /still/ not convinced we’re out of the woods yet), things are starting to feel a bit more positive. I feel like I’m getting a bit more done (and I don’t just mean completing a song on Guitar Hero III).
SMURF CLUB
Work is getting very busy, and will continue to be so for the next few months. Unfortunately, I can’t talk about what I’m working on. Our codename is Smurf Club, and it’s going to be really really cool. At the moment it’s research, playtesting, and drafting various internal documents. But you’ll just have to wait until I can say more. “The first rule of Smurf Club…”
SCRIPT NEWS
In other news, Dev and I have finished the 2nd draft of our Western Horror script. (OK, that’s a lie, we have about 12 words in one scene that we’re still kicking at, but otherwise…). The second draft was a lot harder to do than I figured it would be. But it feels great to have pushed through. It was harder for a number of reasons, including:
* The worst enemy of the second draft is the first draft. (I think Goldman said that, though it might have been someone more recent. Regardless, it’s bloody true).
* The parts that we glossed over in our original outline, that we said “oh, we’ll just go with this for now and fix it later,” Yeah, those sucked. Giant roadblocks that forced us to grind to a halt for long sections. I swear we did 6 to 12 passes on one nasty scene in particular.
* Both of us suddenly having full time jobs and lots of things going on in our personal lives. Funny that…
* Corollary to the last, just having enough time to hang out together, watch movies, shoot the shit…all the stuff that is needed to fuel the writing process (though it can also be detrimental to it, if one overindulges). On that note, I finally saw 3:10 to Yuma. Um. It was OK. Not as bad as I feared, with a couple of nice scenes. But to say it’s the “best Western since Unforgiven” seems disingenuous at best.
But overall it was a great process and I’m very happy with the end result. At least, I think I am. Right now I’m in the zone of “God I can’t stand looking at this bloody thing anymore,” but I suspect after I’ve had a short break I’ll enjoy it again.
Now we just need to figure out what to do with the bloody thing…
Posted in Games, Writing on April 20, 2008 by Jesse
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Actor Looking For Work. Can Run With Crossbow.
Came across this last week on Dead Things on Sticks, a great blog by a Canadian TV writer.
They received it as a sort of actor’s resume, from Billy MacLellan. It’s pretty awesome as resumes go:
I am avail for work on The Border if you have a character that needs to…
-run with a loaded crossbow
-cock a shotgun with one hand
-uppercut a punk-ass onto a banquet table or into a large bowl of punch
-rollerblade chase through the streets of San Fran
-hang offa that part of a helicopter, ya know, that part. (not the propeller)
-Oh! Rescue a girl from train tracks. (No one does that anymore)
-Put quarters on my bent elbow and then catch them with the same hand. ( I think that I saw the Fonz do that one)
-Wrangle a wild stagecoach.
-Headbutt a Scottish guy. (or girl)
-Sing to a kid that is stuck in a drain. (H2O, not sewer)
-Cut the blue wire. (Hold on…)
-Cut the RED wire.
-Get kids outta a trapped bus, submerged in a pool.
-Jump offa a building because the alien in me is too powerful.
-Swim under water that is on fire.
-Ride on the top of an elevator.
-Hurdle over a German soldier to take out the tower with the live grenade around my neck.
-Oh. And I once played Tommy Djelias in The Music Man.
Much love,
Billy Mac
Heh. It was posted here, if you’d like to see the source.
I wonder if we can go back and add in a girl tied to the train tracks in the Western Horror script…Never even considered that one!
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