Friday, January 11, 2008

Keep ooon truckin'!

A Orange For William is our chief project at the moment. Catchpenny Phoenix is being written, and Bleach is fluttering about like a chicken, unable to fly away because of the big ol' injunction that was slapped on it (for the time being).

I'm drawing up a webcomic for Unpublishables to make sure there's an abundance of new content. It's not very attractive, because I'm not very artistic. Still, two of my favorite webcomics are Dinosaur Comics and xkcd, so I'm hoping that having a good storyline with good jokes will make up for the stick figures. They're surprisingly emotive little bastards. Amazing what you can do with mouths and eyebrows.

Part 1 of 3 of AO4W is written, and is in editing as we speak. Part 2 is coming along nicely. Our goal was to have the entire first draft finished by next Wednesday, but it doesn't look like that'll happen, so if we can get part 2 done by then that would be great. Part 3 is the shortest part anyway. It will be done SOON.

We're making sure of that. Last night Ian, Alex and I (as a trio we make up Unpublishable) very nearly died. The accident was narrowly avoided, so no one/anything was injured/damaged, but it left a damn cool set of skid marks on I-95 and put things into perspective. What if we'd died and left all these ideas unfinished? It was like that moment when Stephen King decided to finish the Dark Tower series after getting run over by a truck, only a) we were not on crack and b) we were not run over by a truck. Regardless, we're redoubling efforts on Orange.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Resolutions are as follows

Wow. Somebody stole my December. If you find it, let me know, will you?

Anyway. Here's what 2008 means to me (and, therefore, means to you):

  • An Orange For William is well underway. The plan is to have it done before classes resume. Should be available for sale not too much later. Though, now that you mention it, how is that happening? (see below)

  • Unpublishable Publications: We're not just doing film anymore, so we're gone Unpublishable. Since no one in their right minds would actually publish AO4W, we're doing it ourselves. It'll also be a place to publish whatever other whims we have in the future. Like, picture books. Or audio books. Video books?

  • Catchpenny Phoenix: The mighty 2010 movie has finally been named, and has been outlined. A script is in progress, and fundraising is in progress. I'll let you know how you can donate as soon as we develop a way to do it.

  • Don't Drink The Bleach is still stuck in post-production. Waiting, waiting on festivals...and there's that second round of applications to do as the festivals we missed doing last year open up again...


So, there's our 2008. Any questions?