Saturday, March 19, 2016
Soulless Rewrite One
Soulless
It really started for me that summer after I moved into that house. Backed to a wooded area, from my window I could see a long way, not that much interesting happened at first. The boys were your usual rough housing sort, nothing to get excited over until I accidentally overheard a conversation between them. They had no idea I was listening to them so they did not guard their words.
Murder. Now that is an idea that can fixate in your mind, even if you don't want it to, but I did. Somehow I liked that idea: Murder. I wasn't even sure exactly what it meant but it sounded good to me. I liked the energy they had as they talked, the excitement, how alive they were. It made me feel alive too.
I guess up until that moment I never really had a purpose or goal, or a serious thought. Now it seemed all I could think about. I began to wonder about it, the feel of it, the taste of it, I never had such thoughts before, as you can imagine. It was new and exciting. I felt trapped though, I did not know how to embrace the freedom I so desired.
You ever feel like someone is trying to look through your eyes? Like they are desperately trying to see what you see? I felt trapped with only ever being able to look out the window and never go outside. It was impossible in my condition. But now I had Hope. Anything was possible if you wanted it bad enough. I first tried the younger boy thinking he would be easier but his thoughts were ever only half formed it seemed. More like he just followed his older brother's lead. The older brother turned out to be a goldmine! He seemed unaware of me and I could almost see what he saw and feel what he was feeling. Only when he was most excited and concentrated could I sneak into his head.
Luckily for me he was most excited when killing birds with his bb gun. It was such fun at first. I could be right there as we squeezed the trigger together. His high from it did not last as long as I wanted though and it began to fade faster and faster. It would take me a few days to get back the strength to try it again. Luckily I could usually see them heading off to the woods together from my window on the second floor.
It was a bad month when he got a girlfriend and I could not get into his head at all, it was full of her... The younger one missed hanging out with his brother and that made it easy for me to take control of him one sunny afternoon. My aim was horrible, but it was my first time actually pulling the trigger. I aimed at the girl as they sat on the hill together, hand in hand, enjoying the hot sun and lazy afternoon together. Instead of hitting her right between the eyes as I was aiming for, I got the bottle of water next to her.
I could not get out of the younger boy fast enough and endured the beating he got from his brother. Pain! I never knew about pain before, not like this! It was almost a month before I even wanted to attempt it again. I was scared of feeling pain again so hesitated. Then I remembered I felt none when I was inside the older one's head...
It became very easy to take control that moment the trigger was pulled. I think his younger brother even saw me looking out through his eyes since he would stare funnily at his brother. I guess I would be creeped out too if my brother suddenly turned to look at me and had someone else's face!
I would be so worn out from the effort though that it was almost Halloween before I could get the strength to try again. Now I know people think it is just a holiday to get dressed and up and get free candy but it also is a day of Power for those who understand it. I never felt so strong, ever before! I actually got up and began walking toward the younger boy explaining I had a plan that would benefit us both. I have no idea what I said that scared him so much but he was terrified of me. I walked toward him slowly, using a gentle voice but he still acted so scared of me.
I knew I had limited time so decided to go for it. I was just about to him when he screamed and kicked me so hard I flew across the room and slammed into the wall. Pain! Again nothing but Pain! I do not like pain! He tried to jump out the window and landed on his head I guess since I never saw him again. They put me back into box I had come in. No room to move, no room to breath, nothing but dark and silence...
** **
Soulless Opening Scene
INT living room of her house, evening
The woman is sitting at her computer desk placed in the corner and facing the front door. She is alone in the room and browsing on her computer.
She seems nervous about something. (the camera shows her computer screen, slowly panning right to glance at the closet door next to the front door, a couple of times like she is afraid someone is hiding there.)
She opens her word processor and then sits there staring at the blank screen. (each little noise the house makes her look at the coat closet)
She takes a deep breath and we can see her typing
I feel like I am going crazy! I can feel the doll! Like it is trying to creep around my brain or something. I wish she had never given me the stupid thing!
She reads what she wrote, sighs and deletes it.
fade to black
** **
It has been so long since I felt anything. How strange to find myself on another shelf, with no window even! That scent, what is it? She reeks of it, but it awakens my senses. I can almost feel again. I can barely see though. Just a dim light most of the time and sometimes I can see I am on a shelf.
It must be a year since I feel so alive once again! Not that it was like last time though. Something happened, like I fell asleep and cant wake up...
But I woke up today, so it must be Halloween! I cant see very well and it takes all my strength to try. At least I can feel again. but how strange, I don't feel the same as before. I think it was being in that box so long. I must have died and am only now coming back to life. I think it is the scent she uses that keeps me half asleep all the time!
I can hear her conversations sometimes, when I am half awake. I like her, she is such a phoney! It is amusing! If I had a choice I would pretend to like people to their faces then say what I really feel about them when I am alone!
The scent she uses, I figure out it is some kind of candles and incense she burns, for magic power or something. It does not seem to work very well for her since she is as sad as ever! You would think it would be easy to invade her mind. Somehow it is like she feels me but does not now it is me, but sometimes she does look at me like she knows I am awake. She thinks we are friends.
How strange that she wants into me and I want into her body! Too bad I do not know how to switch us. That darn scent, makes me so sleepy! Halloween has come again! I can feel the power building! She is doing something strange though. It causes me to feel so strange. I do not understand.
Sudden blinding pain. A thousand knifes cutting me to pieces. Her voice trying to get inside me. Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! the pain burns me! The pressure is getting too much. I need this to stop! I am torn into a million pieces and know only pain. I feel shattered but look the same on the outside. She seems to feel she accomplished something, but I feel the same as ever.
Cant think, too much pain! Please stop! Please, I will do anything!
Time must have passed since I can feel another Halloween. That makes 3 with this lady! I can feel my shattered pieces pulling back together as the day approaches! She is starting it again! I can almost remember this!
Concentrate!
Remember!
I remember!
I will be ready this time! I can feel it starting again. This time I will grab her! I will pull her into me and get out! Got you! Wait, something is wrong! What is happening? why cant I get out? She is holding me tight! No, I wont stay here! I refuse to be trapped forever with you!
I see her beside me, as real as I am. This doll body feels too cramped for the both of us! I grab her by the neck and squeeze. Oh, it feels so good. Yes! Don't scream, how can you still scream? Shut up!
I begin to shake her, my rage making me lose control. But it worked, she was not as strong as me. I could feel the life leaving her. I guess I should have jumped into her body, but this felt so good. I could not stop until she totally faded away. I am too tired to think...
** **
Soulless New Opening Scene
INT her living room, evening
She sits at her computer desk, writing frantically. She seems half nervous but half determined. She types with a fury, rage building as she makes so many typos!
(the camera is in the middle of the room, showing her in the corner then swinging around to show the coat closet. The camera pans in as we hear her typing fast)
DOLL: Halloween! I can take her over at Halloween! ( a creepy male voice seems to be coming from high in the closet)
The camera moves away from the coat closet until it is behind her and looking over her shoulder as she types. She is making a list of things to do to get rid of the doll before Halloween!
fade to black
** **
I can feel she is special! She is not like any of the others I met so far. She has a power of her own. But it is hidden or something. It seems to protect her from me. I can get so close but then suddenly the searing light burns me.
I foolishly tried to invade her mind when I thought she was sleeping. She was sleeping there but she must have felt me since she sat up and looked at me. I know she saw me. I could see myself through her eyes. I was a black shadow in the dark room. I thought she would not be able to see me in the dark but she did! I felt terrified! Like getting bitch-slapped hard! I flew back into my body. I saw myself for a second. A dark creepy shape! I have no soul!!!!!!!!!!
is this true? Do I have no soul? I do not understand anything anymore. I just know I have to survive to Halloween. By then I should have my strength back!
I am trying to be subtle, but somehow she senses me and I can not get close. But I know she can hear me "whisper"... I am trying to convince her to give me to someone weak, someone she does not like much...
Friday, March 18, 2016
CWP ~4
Creative Writing Process tutorial #4
I plan to write the story tonight and wanted to put down where my mind is at right now. I wrote a very rough draft and now am ready to write the real story. I think how I will do it is the story will be from the doll's point of view and the video tutorials I make will be from mine, give it a cool 'both sides' view.
I can already picture several of the video tutorials! I cant decide whether I want to put the scripts on here since I wont be filming them yet so it doesn't become unbalanced.
The idea is I need to get rid of this doll because... and the rest becomes the story and videos...
So, tonight I will create an unnamed family in an unnamed town who have to move to mine after their kids are arrested and tried for murder... Half wants to make it the younger one gets out early and comes "home" and kills his parents then himself and that is how the doll ends up in the shop where my sister eventually buys him...
Half of me wonders if trying to throw all that backstory in to his story will ruin it. I mean backstories are usually told as a sequel, right? So having it ready to go will be added incentive to some indie director :p Deciding things like this help greatly before you try to write the story down... for my own sake, I might write the whole backstory now but know I will cut it for this story. I can plan it as my sequel :p
For my part, all this researching horror has begun to effect me. I am the one people loved to see at horror movies. I am the one that would scream and race out of the theater if someone did some sort of scare thing to me... One vivid memory I have is where my sister, our friend and me went to a horror movie. I hated to go with her because she always left to 'date' and would leave me there all alone! Yikes! But it was worse when they stayed. I usually sat in front of them since I had no desire to watch them make out or anything. I would get scared and tense and their date would do something like reach around my head and make that 'argh' scary sound. grrrrrr!! lol, one reason I have ambivalent feelings about doing horror... love it/hate it!
So, I slowly become, what is the word? Where the stories and images begin to take hold of my active imagination... You know what I mean... Noises around the house suddenly take on a creepy cause and effect my mood. Where I become scared in my own house! :p I think I can write it. I can see how I want to shoot it so that is good!
lol, so these are the thoughts that are buzzing around my head. What was that cool Asian horror one? It began so well but turned into a weird anti-abortion one? Recycle I think it was called. I just love the opening idea, the writer wants to write a creepy scary story so allows herself to get into that scared to the bone mood!
That is about where my mind is right now. So hopefully in the right place to write the horror story! I will post it once finished!
Where this series starts
hugs,
~Sea
I plan to write the story tonight and wanted to put down where my mind is at right now. I wrote a very rough draft and now am ready to write the real story. I think how I will do it is the story will be from the doll's point of view and the video tutorials I make will be from mine, give it a cool 'both sides' view.
I can already picture several of the video tutorials! I cant decide whether I want to put the scripts on here since I wont be filming them yet so it doesn't become unbalanced.
The idea is I need to get rid of this doll because... and the rest becomes the story and videos...
So, tonight I will create an unnamed family in an unnamed town who have to move to mine after their kids are arrested and tried for murder... Half wants to make it the younger one gets out early and comes "home" and kills his parents then himself and that is how the doll ends up in the shop where my sister eventually buys him...
Half of me wonders if trying to throw all that backstory in to his story will ruin it. I mean backstories are usually told as a sequel, right? So having it ready to go will be added incentive to some indie director :p Deciding things like this help greatly before you try to write the story down... for my own sake, I might write the whole backstory now but know I will cut it for this story. I can plan it as my sequel :p
For my part, all this researching horror has begun to effect me. I am the one people loved to see at horror movies. I am the one that would scream and race out of the theater if someone did some sort of scare thing to me... One vivid memory I have is where my sister, our friend and me went to a horror movie. I hated to go with her because she always left to 'date' and would leave me there all alone! Yikes! But it was worse when they stayed. I usually sat in front of them since I had no desire to watch them make out or anything. I would get scared and tense and their date would do something like reach around my head and make that 'argh' scary sound. grrrrrr!! lol, one reason I have ambivalent feelings about doing horror... love it/hate it!
So, I slowly become, what is the word? Where the stories and images begin to take hold of my active imagination... You know what I mean... Noises around the house suddenly take on a creepy cause and effect my mood. Where I become scared in my own house! :p I think I can write it. I can see how I want to shoot it so that is good!
lol, so these are the thoughts that are buzzing around my head. What was that cool Asian horror one? It began so well but turned into a weird anti-abortion one? Recycle I think it was called. I just love the opening idea, the writer wants to write a creepy scary story so allows herself to get into that scared to the bone mood!
That is about where my mind is right now. So hopefully in the right place to write the horror story! I will post it once finished!
Where this series starts
hugs,
~Sea
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
CWP 3 ~ thinking of next rewrite...
CWP 3 ~ thinking of next rewrite...
It is kind of interesting, the images i want to show in the rewrite... This scene would be a lot longer if I were actually writing the story now, but had to get the image down somewhere since I am working on S'happens right now. Don't want to give it away before you can read the story later...
I can not decide whether to tell it from mine or the doll's point of view though... From mine it would be me gradually becoming terrified of it, as if it had real power to move...
from it's point of view realizing it has someone it can take over ~if only it could find a way to be able to move...
That is as far as I have gotten, picturing a scene where I am here and I go sort of insane as I "feel" the doll trying to get out of the coat closet :p
S'happens is going well still, phew!! Trying to keep it within "what I can do now" bounds instead of writing it as if i did not have to worry about money :p But scary can be created out of nothing!! So, it is more trying to keep it new and original!!
But as it happens so often with me, when working intently on one idea a good scene will pop into my mind for a different one. So, I decided to come talk of it since it is a part of this creative writing process (CWP).
Wanted to say not to be afraid to go from 1 project to another if you get inspired! If you are on a deadline with the main one then just put down bare bones so you can come back to it later when you have more time. But I think we can loose a cool scene if we wait to put it down until later. Why risk it??!!
Short one tonight but just wanted to get that down before going back to my script. Remember to go for your dreams! Even if you have to bring it down and start from way lower then you pictured it, it is learning experience that will make the 'real" one that much better!! So, instead of a $22 million trilogy of terror I am doing a super low budget horror film instead. But this will take me to my goal. I would prefer to have every toy I wanted from the start but this having to work hard for it will make me value it when I do my 'real" trilogy!
I am not afraid of hard work, a good lesson taught from youth. So if you have to force yourself to do it, then do it. Force that first step, second, third and you find you take some on your own without having to force it. then you need to force yourself to take another step, a cycle that you can turn healthy instead of vicious!
Anyway, I am going back to S'happens now...
hugs,
~Sea
It is kind of interesting, the images i want to show in the rewrite... This scene would be a lot longer if I were actually writing the story now, but had to get the image down somewhere since I am working on S'happens right now. Don't want to give it away before you can read the story later...
In my living room, my desk in the corner facing out toward the front door, and the coat closet. That doll is in there, I can feel it... It can feel me!
I can not decide whether to tell it from mine or the doll's point of view though... From mine it would be me gradually becoming terrified of it, as if it had real power to move...
from it's point of view realizing it has someone it can take over ~if only it could find a way to be able to move...
That is as far as I have gotten, picturing a scene where I am here and I go sort of insane as I "feel" the doll trying to get out of the coat closet :p
S'happens is going well still, phew!! Trying to keep it within "what I can do now" bounds instead of writing it as if i did not have to worry about money :p But scary can be created out of nothing!! So, it is more trying to keep it new and original!!
But as it happens so often with me, when working intently on one idea a good scene will pop into my mind for a different one. So, I decided to come talk of it since it is a part of this creative writing process (CWP).
Wanted to say not to be afraid to go from 1 project to another if you get inspired! If you are on a deadline with the main one then just put down bare bones so you can come back to it later when you have more time. But I think we can loose a cool scene if we wait to put it down until later. Why risk it??!!
Short one tonight but just wanted to get that down before going back to my script. Remember to go for your dreams! Even if you have to bring it down and start from way lower then you pictured it, it is learning experience that will make the 'real" one that much better!! So, instead of a $22 million trilogy of terror I am doing a super low budget horror film instead. But this will take me to my goal. I would prefer to have every toy I wanted from the start but this having to work hard for it will make me value it when I do my 'real" trilogy!
I am not afraid of hard work, a good lesson taught from youth. So if you have to force yourself to do it, then do it. Force that first step, second, third and you find you take some on your own without having to force it. then you need to force yourself to take another step, a cycle that you can turn healthy instead of vicious!
Anyway, I am going back to S'happens now...
hugs,
~Sea
More About Bigfoot Dream
More about Bigfoot Dream
When I was thinking up the Soulless Doll idea that other night I think I drifted off to sleep because Bigfoot came to me. Or rather, brought me to him /her/couldn't tell...
I had gotten my Sony A7S ii (hehe, know I was dreaming at that point!!) and had the irresistible urge to go into the woods and shoot some backgrounds for the publicity pics and all... It was going so well and such a very gorgeous spot. I half wept at the beauty of it, Alaska truly is zee Great Land!
I got a strange feeling i was being watched though. Half creepy but half like guarded and safe. I was recording now and had walked into view and all of sudden Bigfoot comes racing out of the woods and toward me. It was strangely running like a werewolf though!!!! I screamed and fainted a moment. Bigfoot caught me and held me and fanned me back to consciousness. I remember being extremely proud that though I had screamed and fainted I had not wet my pants! I bragged to the camera about that too...
But somehow Bigfoot could talk without speaking and said they wanted to play the werewolf in my film. I have to admit the first thing that popped into my head was looking at their nose and wondering how much it would hurt to latex on a wolf snout and taking it off later might get me killed!
But I did not want to say that to Bigfoot. I said I was an indie director and could handle anything! I said it would have to understand that my word was law on set! I was shaking so scared because I was pretty sure something that big and powerful was not used to being told what to do...
I remember a few times during the dream that I would realize it was just a dream and be sad about it! I thought it would make my film really stand out to have the part played by a Bigfoot but almost immediately my mind went to wondering about the SAG thingy. Was it paid as a human actor or as a pet/animal? i was afraid to say it out loud though. How weird is it that this is where my mind goes when meeting Bigfoot!! how much would I have to pay it... sheesh!!
I do remember saying that if we did this then every hunter in the world would be flying here to kill them! I mentioned our airports and malls filled with dead animals by Westerners and how proud they would be to display a Bigfoot... I tried to explain it better since it laughed and said it was expert at hiding.
I think it is weird how some can have such vivid dreams and others not. My sister does not have vivid ones she can remember so thinks I make these up. It makes me wonder how many others have them and are they also creative or in the Arts somehow??
Anyway, they say to mention "follow me" and "share" and to "comment" as well so....
hugs,
~Sea
When I was thinking up the Soulless Doll idea that other night I think I drifted off to sleep because Bigfoot came to me. Or rather, brought me to him /her/couldn't tell...
I had gotten my Sony A7S ii (hehe, know I was dreaming at that point!!) and had the irresistible urge to go into the woods and shoot some backgrounds for the publicity pics and all... It was going so well and such a very gorgeous spot. I half wept at the beauty of it, Alaska truly is zee Great Land!
I got a strange feeling i was being watched though. Half creepy but half like guarded and safe. I was recording now and had walked into view and all of sudden Bigfoot comes racing out of the woods and toward me. It was strangely running like a werewolf though!!!! I screamed and fainted a moment. Bigfoot caught me and held me and fanned me back to consciousness. I remember being extremely proud that though I had screamed and fainted I had not wet my pants! I bragged to the camera about that too...
But somehow Bigfoot could talk without speaking and said they wanted to play the werewolf in my film. I have to admit the first thing that popped into my head was looking at their nose and wondering how much it would hurt to latex on a wolf snout and taking it off later might get me killed!
But I did not want to say that to Bigfoot. I said I was an indie director and could handle anything! I said it would have to understand that my word was law on set! I was shaking so scared because I was pretty sure something that big and powerful was not used to being told what to do...
I remember a few times during the dream that I would realize it was just a dream and be sad about it! I thought it would make my film really stand out to have the part played by a Bigfoot but almost immediately my mind went to wondering about the SAG thingy. Was it paid as a human actor or as a pet/animal? i was afraid to say it out loud though. How weird is it that this is where my mind goes when meeting Bigfoot!! how much would I have to pay it... sheesh!!
I do remember saying that if we did this then every hunter in the world would be flying here to kill them! I mentioned our airports and malls filled with dead animals by Westerners and how proud they would be to display a Bigfoot... I tried to explain it better since it laughed and said it was expert at hiding.
I think it is weird how some can have such vivid dreams and others not. My sister does not have vivid ones she can remember so thinks I make these up. It makes me wonder how many others have them and are they also creative or in the Arts somehow??
Anyway, they say to mention "follow me" and "share" and to "comment" as well so....
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| from my @Searean2 twitter account |
hugs,
~Sea
Monday, March 14, 2016
CWP ~2 editing
Creative Writing Process ~ Editing, be ruthless!!
Soulless Doll story is here
A good habit to get into is to create a folder called "Junk" to store deleted writing, better to never throw it away even if it is horrible.
To edit it, I need to figure out the "story" itself and go from there. So it is a doll without a soul but prepped and ready for one, maybe yours...
I liked this:
So will probably keep that in the rewrite.
Then cut the rest of the beginning as it does not fit the story. Learning to be ruthless and cut what is "fluff" is really useful and a necessary skill! So, I will forget all the excess stuff and start where he is high on a shelf and learns "evil" from watching the brothers.
Right off the bat I lose half the story, but it will make it a lot better. Starting a story from scratch is like that though. Just start it and then you will see what you like and what you don't.
No one usually sees this "rough" rough draft so don't worry about how horrible it is! It is just a starting point.
Things I liked in story:
So from a whole story there is only 8 lines or so left that I will use for the rewrite. That is hard but definitely what you need to do when writing.
While I liked the idea in the beginning, it does not go with this story so has to go. Put it into the Junk folder and forget it for now. I may go back to it for my other novel I am working on about the workers who are in charge of things like "that song stuck in your head"...
Do not worry too much about punctuation at this point. It is important but it is one of the last things I worry about. I know I have a good editor for when the time comes to publish our novels so am not worried about it now. You can hire a college student for cheap I bet if you don't know anyone who is a "grammar Nazi". You know they are one if they giggle at your sentence structure, sniggering quietly as they read your work :p
It is hard to do, "throw away" a huge chunk of your work, but it will make the finished product much better.
I think one thing people who try to write get stuck on is they are too afraid to just write a story down. They want it to be perfect. Perfection comes from good editing though. Knowing what you want to write is only a step in the process. I know several people who can outline stories to perfection but are too afraid to just write it out. I think it will help people to realize it is a lot like homework :p
I am working on S'happens, so unless I get inspiration for this doll story I will be doing that this week. I just didn't like the feeling I was leaving it undone, this tutorial project.
So, we got the concept idea, then we just wrote a story trying to keep within that frame, then showed the thoughts as I was writing it and then how I plan to edit it. The creative process is fun and is different for everyone and even between projects. Some I just know what I want and write it. Like with S'happens, the idea was to do a sort of "American Werewolf in Alaska" but drifted too far from that so it is "just" a werewolf film now... :p
I think writing is a very good thing and something people should do every day. If you don't like writing stories, keep a journal and write down random thoughts you have. Reading those years later can be funny! I posted a short story earlier (SeaFoam) to show my writing style, it was meant to sound translated into English vaguely giving the feel it was passed down to me. That one was written and not edited much beyond punctuation since I wanted to show me "in the raw" I guess it is called. I guess I liked the story and felt it showed me to advantage that whole "this is me natural", hehe...
Ok, so what I hope you take away from this is to write it down, even if it seems horrible. I mean, look at my rough rough! Yikes! But the next version of it will be 100% improved. Then, once it is written, be ruthless! be vicious! Out of that starting idea I think I have maybe a paragraph left. that is what is needed!
Copy the story to a new thing and move it to Junk folder so you have a copy of it. Then delete each line that does not pertain exactly to the story. no interesting sidebars! If there is a phrase or idea you love, save it but know it might be cut in the rewrite. I might change it to the Doll's point of view in the rewrite, not sure yet... So I keep what I think relates directly to the doll and delete the rest. Not much left but I can already see the bare bones of the new story from the ashes of this one! :p But I already mentioned I am writing the low budget horror film script right now and it is going very well so I will most likely do that this week.
Please leave any questions or things you would like to know in the comments!
hugs,
~Sea
#creativewriting #horrorfilm #tutorial
Soulless Doll story is here
A good habit to get into is to create a folder called "Junk" to store deleted writing, better to never throw it away even if it is horrible.
To edit it, I need to figure out the "story" itself and go from there. So it is a doll without a soul but prepped and ready for one, maybe yours...
I liked this:
It was like a baby not yet born though, the same as for a mortal baby, kind of. You are born not knowing much and gradually learn the world around you. This doll was the same way.
So will probably keep that in the rewrite.
Then cut the rest of the beginning as it does not fit the story. Learning to be ruthless and cut what is "fluff" is really useful and a necessary skill! So, I will forget all the excess stuff and start where he is high on a shelf and learns "evil" from watching the brothers.
Right off the bat I lose half the story, but it will make it a lot better. Starting a story from scratch is like that though. Just start it and then you will see what you like and what you don't.
No one usually sees this "rough" rough draft so don't worry about how horrible it is! It is just a starting point.
Things I liked in story:
- box in box in dark room idea
- doll as baby
- brothers teach it cruelty
- shop lady teaches him companionship and transferring of souls
So from a whole story there is only 8 lines or so left that I will use for the rewrite. That is hard but definitely what you need to do when writing.
While I liked the idea in the beginning, it does not go with this story so has to go. Put it into the Junk folder and forget it for now. I may go back to it for my other novel I am working on about the workers who are in charge of things like "that song stuck in your head"...
Do not worry too much about punctuation at this point. It is important but it is one of the last things I worry about. I know I have a good editor for when the time comes to publish our novels so am not worried about it now. You can hire a college student for cheap I bet if you don't know anyone who is a "grammar Nazi". You know they are one if they giggle at your sentence structure, sniggering quietly as they read your work :p
It is hard to do, "throw away" a huge chunk of your work, but it will make the finished product much better.
I think one thing people who try to write get stuck on is they are too afraid to just write a story down. They want it to be perfect. Perfection comes from good editing though. Knowing what you want to write is only a step in the process. I know several people who can outline stories to perfection but are too afraid to just write it out. I think it will help people to realize it is a lot like homework :p
I am working on S'happens, so unless I get inspiration for this doll story I will be doing that this week. I just didn't like the feeling I was leaving it undone, this tutorial project.
So, we got the concept idea, then we just wrote a story trying to keep within that frame, then showed the thoughts as I was writing it and then how I plan to edit it. The creative process is fun and is different for everyone and even between projects. Some I just know what I want and write it. Like with S'happens, the idea was to do a sort of "American Werewolf in Alaska" but drifted too far from that so it is "just" a werewolf film now... :p
I think writing is a very good thing and something people should do every day. If you don't like writing stories, keep a journal and write down random thoughts you have. Reading those years later can be funny! I posted a short story earlier (SeaFoam) to show my writing style, it was meant to sound translated into English vaguely giving the feel it was passed down to me. That one was written and not edited much beyond punctuation since I wanted to show me "in the raw" I guess it is called. I guess I liked the story and felt it showed me to advantage that whole "this is me natural", hehe...
Ok, so what I hope you take away from this is to write it down, even if it seems horrible. I mean, look at my rough rough! Yikes! But the next version of it will be 100% improved. Then, once it is written, be ruthless! be vicious! Out of that starting idea I think I have maybe a paragraph left. that is what is needed!
Copy the story to a new thing and move it to Junk folder so you have a copy of it. Then delete each line that does not pertain exactly to the story. no interesting sidebars! If there is a phrase or idea you love, save it but know it might be cut in the rewrite. I might change it to the Doll's point of view in the rewrite, not sure yet... So I keep what I think relates directly to the doll and delete the rest. Not much left but I can already see the bare bones of the new story from the ashes of this one! :p But I already mentioned I am writing the low budget horror film script right now and it is going very well so I will most likely do that this week.
Please leave any questions or things you would like to know in the comments!
hugs,
~Sea
#creativewriting #horrorfilm #tutorial
CWP ~1
What I was thinking as I wrote it...
I had a vague idea of what I wanted and nothing else so just began to write. I needed to keep it kind of bland so someone could put their stamp onto it easily but with enough details to make it interesting...
So I will just go paragraph by paragraph and let you know what was going through my mind as I was typing...
P1)
Usually I go to this one idea I am using for a novel that involves the people who are assigned to do things like "put song into head", I have about 4 good ones and a couple dozen bad ones that need work. I don't know the world it will be set in, this horror flick... so don't want to create one that is too detailed.
It occurred me to that it might seem too cliche to one group to call her a "demon" and just as cliche to call her a "fairy" so decided to say she didn't care what she was called and leave it at that :p
Competition is what drives them in my novel so when one gets something new and novel, even if it is horrible and causes too much work, everyone else wants one too :p that is where the button thing came from...
P2)
Wanting to create a sort of synchronicity thing where what you do or think matters... So tried to make it mirror, the lady in the doll factory and the lady in the soul factory. The idea that it can sometimes be that simple, two people thinking or feeling the same thing at the same time...
Thinking it would be kind of scary to think it could happen just like that, for no real reason really. "And "evil" enters our world"...
P3)
Setting up the idea that it is just newborn to explain why it did not "come alive" until I created this idea... hehe..
P4)
This was meant to be a bit creepy, that without even knowing it, you too could be already booked for a 1-way ticket to the Dark Place...
P5)
Thinking a big city is easy to hide fledgling killers... and why the doll leans toward the evil...
P6)
How it is beginning to realize it is "different" and that it wants to know why it can think a bit... i didn't want to give a detailed explanation in case it gets changed... easier to do if leave it blank in first place... so chose a cockroach to explain why I don't delve further...
P7)
this was just to keep interest mostly... like so much to tell, if you are good and patient...
P8)
Getting the doll to my hometown and into the shop, needed some story but mainly filler...
P9)
I think evil is learned, not born... for the most part... things that we label evil are usually things we just to not understand and fear are better or smarter then we are... The boys go to jail and he is once again in a box within a box in a dark place...
P10)
I decided to make the shop owner a witch to explain his knowledge of black magic now... :p I will need to switch it out since the shop owner died in real life and I don't want to get sued or anything :p
P11)
this was just to show she wanted to be in the doll maybe and that the doll learned it could get a soul when someone dies...
P12)
alternative and witches seem to go together, I mean people would want to upgrade witch stuff too I guess...
P13)
getting the idea from my sister who wanted a cool doll horror flick :p
P14)
and here we are... setting the stage for the Soulless Doll...
I will go over how I plan to edit it in another one... I think I already mentioned I think I am cutting the first half and starting with the doll on the shelf, forgotten and watching the 2 brothers out the window as they learn to kill birds with bb guns and then a homeless guy wanders past and... but we will see...
hugs,
~Sea
#creativeWriting #horrorfilm #tutorial
I had a vague idea of what I wanted and nothing else so just began to write. I needed to keep it kind of bland so someone could put their stamp onto it easily but with enough details to make it interesting...
So I will just go paragraph by paragraph and let you know what was going through my mind as I was typing...
P1)
Usually I go to this one idea I am using for a novel that involves the people who are assigned to do things like "put song into head", I have about 4 good ones and a couple dozen bad ones that need work. I don't know the world it will be set in, this horror flick... so don't want to create one that is too detailed.
It occurred me to that it might seem too cliche to one group to call her a "demon" and just as cliche to call her a "fairy" so decided to say she didn't care what she was called and leave it at that :p
Competition is what drives them in my novel so when one gets something new and novel, even if it is horrible and causes too much work, everyone else wants one too :p that is where the button thing came from...
P2)
Wanting to create a sort of synchronicity thing where what you do or think matters... So tried to make it mirror, the lady in the doll factory and the lady in the soul factory. The idea that it can sometimes be that simple, two people thinking or feeling the same thing at the same time...
Thinking it would be kind of scary to think it could happen just like that, for no real reason really. "And "evil" enters our world"...
P3)
Setting up the idea that it is just newborn to explain why it did not "come alive" until I created this idea... hehe..
P4)
This was meant to be a bit creepy, that without even knowing it, you too could be already booked for a 1-way ticket to the Dark Place...
P5)
Thinking a big city is easy to hide fledgling killers... and why the doll leans toward the evil...
P6)
How it is beginning to realize it is "different" and that it wants to know why it can think a bit... i didn't want to give a detailed explanation in case it gets changed... easier to do if leave it blank in first place... so chose a cockroach to explain why I don't delve further...
P7)
this was just to keep interest mostly... like so much to tell, if you are good and patient...
P8)
Getting the doll to my hometown and into the shop, needed some story but mainly filler...
P9)
I think evil is learned, not born... for the most part... things that we label evil are usually things we just to not understand and fear are better or smarter then we are... The boys go to jail and he is once again in a box within a box in a dark place...
P10)
I decided to make the shop owner a witch to explain his knowledge of black magic now... :p I will need to switch it out since the shop owner died in real life and I don't want to get sued or anything :p
P11)
this was just to show she wanted to be in the doll maybe and that the doll learned it could get a soul when someone dies...
P12)
alternative and witches seem to go together, I mean people would want to upgrade witch stuff too I guess...
P13)
getting the idea from my sister who wanted a cool doll horror flick :p
P14)
and here we are... setting the stage for the Soulless Doll...
I will go over how I plan to edit it in another one... I think I already mentioned I think I am cutting the first half and starting with the doll on the shelf, forgotten and watching the 2 brothers out the window as they learn to kill birds with bb guns and then a homeless guy wanders past and... but we will see...
hugs,
~Sea
#creativeWriting #horrorfilm #tutorial
The soulless Doll
The Soulless Doll (concept rough draft)
It was pure bad luck but these things happen more often then people think. It is because the one in charge of personalities (whether you call her a demon or a fairy makes no difference to her) was in a bad mood. Another bad mood. It is because it is so easy to press the button that was installed to "modernize" the system (ok, so she wanted a cool button to press like the demon in charge of bodily noises had {and explains a lot...}) that giving personalities to "stuff" became so popular. You can sometimes feel if something is "good" or not and this is because she got that darn button!
The doll was being manufactured by a lady who was also in a bad mood and cursed aloud. Nowadays people think nothing of cursing because they have no idea what they actually do when they curse. If they had any idea they were entering into a legally binding contract they might think twice! But no one does so the lady cursed just as she was picking up the doll and thinking how ugly it was. It was her foul mood matching exactly the demons who was thinking how ugly her new assistant was that caused the doll to become possessed. It now had a soul of it's own.
It was like a baby not yet born though, the same as for a mortal baby, kind of. You are born not knowing much and gradually learn the world around you. This doll was the same way. It had no idea it had a soul and how special that was. It was in a box that was stuffed into a box full of dolls like him and in a dark warehouse of a company that was going out of business. So its whole world consisted of a dark small box, nothing special at all. It sort of fell asleep so felt no pain when it got it's personality pulled out of it.
See, the lady who caused him to have a soul neglected her own so much that when they came to collect she was essentially deaf, dumb, blind and mute. They took back the curse and wrote her a one way ticket to the Dark Place. this is not her story so we wont go into what the Dark Place is, but it is an even better story then this one is all I will say...
So, the doll who had been a normal doll, then one with a soul was now empty inside. It was bought in an auction along with several other boxes of dolls and ended up in New York city suburb. One where they have wealth but no manners or decency. One where they buy the kids stuff to make up for the lack of caring, and so on... the doll learned cruelty from the brother of the little boy who he was given to. and this is where things begin to get interesting...
It could not quite move on its own yet but could feel the energy coming off of the mean boy. It made him wish he was a real doll again. Somehow he began putting it together and realized what happened to him. The other dolls and toys were different then he was. But he could not understand why he could not move on his own. It was a cockroach who explained it to him. Do not ask me how, I avoid them and dont want to hear about them so...
Now it knew what it wanted but not how to get it. It began to have dark thoughts. I might write of them in another story, but if you have felt them then you know what they were like and if not, I do not want to scare you since the story is not over yet.
The family began taking vacations and a strange thing happened. His little boy who owned him began hurting animals and starting little fires, having learned it from his older brother. He killed his first bird with a bb gun. Our doll had no idea about it since he was now stuck high on a shelf, forgotten. But he could still see and hear a bit. He would listen in to the brothers talking about killing and how exciting it was. He felt exited too. He did not understand what was happening though. How could he feel something when he was so empty inside?
But the brothers were very active and began killing homeless men and they were only 16 and 12! The doll absorbed each word and felt like he could never get enough. He did not understand what happened when he got put back into his box and stuffed into another box. He thought this was perhaps "dying"...
He sat in the attic for 3 years. Then the parents moved to my hometown. He was in a new attic, unaware and thought he was dead and in the Dark Place. Who knows how long he sat there in his box inside a box in the attic. The doll was unpacked with everything else in the attic. He was stuffed back into his box and sent to the vintage shop where my sister found him a few months ago. But he was unpacked and learned the owner of the used shop was a part time witch. He never saw any ritual or anything but she had set him on a shelf close to her telling everyone he was so ugly he belonged with her. Whatever that means...
But she would talk on the phone to someone in her coven, I think that is the right word. He learned about dark magic and wanted to know more. She could feel him watching her and somehow she liked that feeling. She did not realize he was soulless, she could feel him watching her or listening to her as she moved around the shop. it comforted her in some strange way. Like having a cat but without having to feed it or clean the litter box! People love bargains and got used to seeing him on the shelf behind her. No one even asked about buying him anymore, not that they ever did... he was a part of the shop now.
She did have a cool section of "alternative" in a side room where you could browse without feeling self-conscious about it. I guess my sister went there once in awhile and maybe looked into that room once or twice. I say that because something convinced the saleslady she was a likely candidate for the doll. Or maybe the doll creeped her out and she wanted it gone!
But she told my sister the story of it. How the owner loved it and kept it near her in the shop. How she would never let anyone touch it, even to fix it up like one person offered to do. She had plans for it, you see. She planned to live forever through the doll.
Now my sister knows I am (well, was) planning to kick off my new film company with a trilogy of terror and now a low budget horror one, she thought of this doll for me. She came over asking me if I could restore it. It was an ugly doll but I said sure, no problem. She had that sort of smirk she gets when she is trying to pull something over on me. So I waited to hear the rest. She explained that the doll could be possessed and wanted me to write a creepy horror film starring it like another "Chucky" film.
You see, I can feel it in the closet sometimes... a soulless doll...
explanation/tutorial found here:
hugs,
~Sea
It was pure bad luck but these things happen more often then people think. It is because the one in charge of personalities (whether you call her a demon or a fairy makes no difference to her) was in a bad mood. Another bad mood. It is because it is so easy to press the button that was installed to "modernize" the system (ok, so she wanted a cool button to press like the demon in charge of bodily noises had {and explains a lot...}) that giving personalities to "stuff" became so popular. You can sometimes feel if something is "good" or not and this is because she got that darn button!
The doll was being manufactured by a lady who was also in a bad mood and cursed aloud. Nowadays people think nothing of cursing because they have no idea what they actually do when they curse. If they had any idea they were entering into a legally binding contract they might think twice! But no one does so the lady cursed just as she was picking up the doll and thinking how ugly it was. It was her foul mood matching exactly the demons who was thinking how ugly her new assistant was that caused the doll to become possessed. It now had a soul of it's own.
It was like a baby not yet born though, the same as for a mortal baby, kind of. You are born not knowing much and gradually learn the world around you. This doll was the same way. It had no idea it had a soul and how special that was. It was in a box that was stuffed into a box full of dolls like him and in a dark warehouse of a company that was going out of business. So its whole world consisted of a dark small box, nothing special at all. It sort of fell asleep so felt no pain when it got it's personality pulled out of it.
See, the lady who caused him to have a soul neglected her own so much that when they came to collect she was essentially deaf, dumb, blind and mute. They took back the curse and wrote her a one way ticket to the Dark Place. this is not her story so we wont go into what the Dark Place is, but it is an even better story then this one is all I will say...
So, the doll who had been a normal doll, then one with a soul was now empty inside. It was bought in an auction along with several other boxes of dolls and ended up in New York city suburb. One where they have wealth but no manners or decency. One where they buy the kids stuff to make up for the lack of caring, and so on... the doll learned cruelty from the brother of the little boy who he was given to. and this is where things begin to get interesting...
It could not quite move on its own yet but could feel the energy coming off of the mean boy. It made him wish he was a real doll again. Somehow he began putting it together and realized what happened to him. The other dolls and toys were different then he was. But he could not understand why he could not move on his own. It was a cockroach who explained it to him. Do not ask me how, I avoid them and dont want to hear about them so...
Now it knew what it wanted but not how to get it. It began to have dark thoughts. I might write of them in another story, but if you have felt them then you know what they were like and if not, I do not want to scare you since the story is not over yet.
The family began taking vacations and a strange thing happened. His little boy who owned him began hurting animals and starting little fires, having learned it from his older brother. He killed his first bird with a bb gun. Our doll had no idea about it since he was now stuck high on a shelf, forgotten. But he could still see and hear a bit. He would listen in to the brothers talking about killing and how exciting it was. He felt exited too. He did not understand what was happening though. How could he feel something when he was so empty inside?
But the brothers were very active and began killing homeless men and they were only 16 and 12! The doll absorbed each word and felt like he could never get enough. He did not understand what happened when he got put back into his box and stuffed into another box. He thought this was perhaps "dying"...
He sat in the attic for 3 years. Then the parents moved to my hometown. He was in a new attic, unaware and thought he was dead and in the Dark Place. Who knows how long he sat there in his box inside a box in the attic. The doll was unpacked with everything else in the attic. He was stuffed back into his box and sent to the vintage shop where my sister found him a few months ago. But he was unpacked and learned the owner of the used shop was a part time witch. He never saw any ritual or anything but she had set him on a shelf close to her telling everyone he was so ugly he belonged with her. Whatever that means...
But she would talk on the phone to someone in her coven, I think that is the right word. He learned about dark magic and wanted to know more. She could feel him watching her and somehow she liked that feeling. She did not realize he was soulless, she could feel him watching her or listening to her as she moved around the shop. it comforted her in some strange way. Like having a cat but without having to feed it or clean the litter box! People love bargains and got used to seeing him on the shelf behind her. No one even asked about buying him anymore, not that they ever did... he was a part of the shop now.
She did have a cool section of "alternative" in a side room where you could browse without feeling self-conscious about it. I guess my sister went there once in awhile and maybe looked into that room once or twice. I say that because something convinced the saleslady she was a likely candidate for the doll. Or maybe the doll creeped her out and she wanted it gone!
But she told my sister the story of it. How the owner loved it and kept it near her in the shop. How she would never let anyone touch it, even to fix it up like one person offered to do. She had plans for it, you see. She planned to live forever through the doll.
Now my sister knows I am (well, was) planning to kick off my new film company with a trilogy of terror and now a low budget horror one, she thought of this doll for me. She came over asking me if I could restore it. It was an ugly doll but I said sure, no problem. She had that sort of smirk she gets when she is trying to pull something over on me. So I waited to hear the rest. She explained that the doll could be possessed and wanted me to write a creepy horror film starring it like another "Chucky" film.
You see, I can feel it in the closet sometimes... a soulless doll...
explanation/tutorial found here:
hugs,
~Sea
Creative Writing Process...
Creative Writing Process
I wrote in another blog how I sort of dreamt this up as I was trying to fall asleep. It came to me as a fun way to do a sort of "prank" and tie it together with my YouTube channel and film making practise...
So I decided to show the process as I do it.
Concept:
Use the doll my sister gave me in a horror film like she wanted, sort of... I will create a series of tutorials about it as I do it. I would show the behind the scenes of setting up the scene to editing and uploading it.
Step 1)
I would write a story about it. I would need to follow a base idea for it though...
Step 2)
I will go over my process of reading and evaluating the story to see what to keep and what to throw out. This is just the starting idea and can change completely in the rough draft version. How to edit your own stuff and be ruthless can be hard!
Step 3)
Explain the thought process that lead me here so far...
So, the other night I was falling asleep and it came to me as a fun idea to make money for my equipment! I guess it was a year ago that my daughters and I were talking about the Internet pranks and if we could ever create one. That became one of those back-of-the-mind-ideas that become stored away for future use.
It caused me to smile thinking I could build interest in the doll, generate a lot if possible, then auction on eBay! Lol, my imagination is pretty vivid and wild at times so I pictured myself doing it as a "buy now" price of $11,000, just enough to get the basics I want at B & H Photo! But it would be fun because I would explain along the way how it would work and how I would create the "fake" auction hoping someone would buy the doll and I could buy my equipment :p
hehe... But I believe in giving value for money so thought I should really write a good story. When writing a new idea I usually just write without thinking too much about it. I guess seeing where it goes on it's own kind of thing...
My "rough" rough drafts are pretty rough, giving me a starting place. I will usually hate a portion of it and rewriting that will usually give me a whole new story as a "rough draft". Then working it into shape.
This one will be a bit harder since I will try to purposely keep it unnamed and bland. The idea is either an idie director wanting to help another newb out will turn it into a cool horror one and I get a mention as a writer or something.
Or...
There are people obsessed with the idea of possessing something that wont "age" like the human body does. At least I think that is the attraction, could be something else entirely... And they would love to have a soulless doll that is "ready" for their own! Or their girlfriends even :p
hehe, so I will do this once a week I think... not sure... I need to get audio and that should be soon. that will make it much easier to record and upload!
I guess it is fun to have side projects going on for when I need a break from my S'happens. I love the script for it so far. I do get a ton of goofy ideas though... I plan to record a few for a behind the scenes thing...
anyway, got the bare bones done... see you again soon! I will post the link to the rough draft in the comments!
hugs,
~Sea
I wrote in another blog how I sort of dreamt this up as I was trying to fall asleep. It came to me as a fun way to do a sort of "prank" and tie it together with my YouTube channel and film making practise...
So I decided to show the process as I do it.
Concept:
Use the doll my sister gave me in a horror film like she wanted, sort of... I will create a series of tutorials about it as I do it. I would show the behind the scenes of setting up the scene to editing and uploading it.
Step 1)
I would write a story about it. I would need to follow a base idea for it though...
- keep it bland enough that someone else can put their stamp on it
- write the "rough" rough draft
- use no names so they can name it themselves
- keep it simple so they can add or change it easily
- just long enough to feel like it has substance
Step 2)
I will go over my process of reading and evaluating the story to see what to keep and what to throw out. This is just the starting idea and can change completely in the rough draft version. How to edit your own stuff and be ruthless can be hard!
Step 3)
Explain the thought process that lead me here so far...
So, the other night I was falling asleep and it came to me as a fun idea to make money for my equipment! I guess it was a year ago that my daughters and I were talking about the Internet pranks and if we could ever create one. That became one of those back-of-the-mind-ideas that become stored away for future use.
It caused me to smile thinking I could build interest in the doll, generate a lot if possible, then auction on eBay! Lol, my imagination is pretty vivid and wild at times so I pictured myself doing it as a "buy now" price of $11,000, just enough to get the basics I want at B & H Photo! But it would be fun because I would explain along the way how it would work and how I would create the "fake" auction hoping someone would buy the doll and I could buy my equipment :p
hehe... But I believe in giving value for money so thought I should really write a good story. When writing a new idea I usually just write without thinking too much about it. I guess seeing where it goes on it's own kind of thing...
My "rough" rough drafts are pretty rough, giving me a starting place. I will usually hate a portion of it and rewriting that will usually give me a whole new story as a "rough draft". Then working it into shape.
This one will be a bit harder since I will try to purposely keep it unnamed and bland. The idea is either an idie director wanting to help another newb out will turn it into a cool horror one and I get a mention as a writer or something.
Or...
There are people obsessed with the idea of possessing something that wont "age" like the human body does. At least I think that is the attraction, could be something else entirely... And they would love to have a soulless doll that is "ready" for their own! Or their girlfriends even :p
hehe, so I will do this once a week I think... not sure... I need to get audio and that should be soon. that will make it much easier to record and upload!
I guess it is fun to have side projects going on for when I need a break from my S'happens. I love the script for it so far. I do get a ton of goofy ideas though... I plan to record a few for a behind the scenes thing...
hugs,
~Sea
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Gadgets and Gizmos
Gadgets and gizmos
I added some gadgets to the side of the blog, should make it easier to follow and subscribe now, yeah!
Please feel free to add suggestions or post a comment. I hope to create a place to come to when you have some free time and can stop by for a quick read...
I am in a great mood, things are going very well here for me and my family. I hope everyone else is enjoying their weekend too! Just a quick post to try out the new gadgets and see if it seems any different or not...
hugs,
~Sea
I added some gadgets to the side of the blog, should make it easier to follow and subscribe now, yeah!
Please feel free to add suggestions or post a comment. I hope to create a place to come to when you have some free time and can stop by for a quick read...
I am in a great mood, things are going very well here for me and my family. I hope everyone else is enjoying their weekend too! Just a quick post to try out the new gadgets and see if it seems any different or not...
hugs,
~Sea
Script Ideas
Script Ideas
How often do new ideas come to you when you are trying to sleep? I got the coolest idea for a short last night...
But I was busy trying to create my low budget horror film, S'happens, so put it on the back burner. But last night I guess I was letting my mind wander to see what would pop into it as I drifted off to sleep...
Bring Me to Life Evanescence
It came to me as "The Soulless Doll"... lol, a short where I do it as me creating a "fake" to sell on eBay to either an Indie Director like me looking for a cool theme or one of those people obsessed with Chucky and wishing they could enter a doll and here I just happen to have a soul~less one...
I would write a short story about a soulless doll and post it on here. I would put the "creating a fake" ones up on my Youtube channel and then create the short movie about it... I began thinking how fun it would be to actually do an auction on eBay and blog here that it is a gimmick for the short movie and NOT to buy it so everyone rushes over to buy it :p Except I think I fell asleep right about then because Bigfoot came to me and wanted to play the part of the Werewolf in my low budget horror film :p
But it was a fun idea, it involved my Youtube channel as I did DIY film ones about lighting the scene as I show behind the scenes of me creating the short :p
The doll is a sort of creepy looking one, like it was meant to be a joyful one but got neglected and became gloomy or something... It needs retouching and that is how I would start the short... me sitting here with the doll on the desk, the paints next to it and me just staring at the screen here ignoring the doll but holding the little paint brush like I was about to start any second... So for the eBay auction I would include a little touch up kit :p Saving pics of it in case I actually decide to try to create the short :p
hehe, I love the creative process... add in a healthy dose of editing and it comes out ok... So tell me where your ideas come from...
hugs,
~Sea
How often do new ideas come to you when you are trying to sleep? I got the coolest idea for a short last night...
My sister gave me a creepy doll to turn into a "horror flick", lol. The backstory is it was one of the first things the lady got when she began her used/antique shop and has sat there every since. The shop lady died and is "haunting" the doll... that is the story the salesperson told my sister to get her to buy it...
But I was busy trying to create my low budget horror film, S'happens, so put it on the back burner. But last night I guess I was letting my mind wander to see what would pop into it as I drifted off to sleep...
It came to me as "The Soulless Doll"... lol, a short where I do it as me creating a "fake" to sell on eBay to either an Indie Director like me looking for a cool theme or one of those people obsessed with Chucky and wishing they could enter a doll and here I just happen to have a soul~less one...
I would write a short story about a soulless doll and post it on here. I would put the "creating a fake" ones up on my Youtube channel and then create the short movie about it... I began thinking how fun it would be to actually do an auction on eBay and blog here that it is a gimmick for the short movie and NOT to buy it so everyone rushes over to buy it :p Except I think I fell asleep right about then because Bigfoot came to me and wanted to play the part of the Werewolf in my low budget horror film :p
But it was a fun idea, it involved my Youtube channel as I did DIY film ones about lighting the scene as I show behind the scenes of me creating the short :p
The doll is a sort of creepy looking one, like it was meant to be a joyful one but got neglected and became gloomy or something... It needs retouching and that is how I would start the short... me sitting here with the doll on the desk, the paints next to it and me just staring at the screen here ignoring the doll but holding the little paint brush like I was about to start any second... So for the eBay auction I would include a little touch up kit :p Saving pics of it in case I actually decide to try to create the short :p
hehe, I love the creative process... add in a healthy dose of editing and it comes out ok... So tell me where your ideas come from...
hugs,
~Sea
Friday, March 11, 2016
Newest Must Have #want
New Must have: Drone!!
Wow, look at this:
Now this is definitely a "must have" and not a #want!! :p
Just imagine how much easier the chase scenes will be to film using this instead of one of my crew endlessly running in front and behind each actor! :p
Man, it makes me wish I had gotten into film making ages ago! My non-profit TCOOO/FWP (that is not quite up and running yet) will definitely work on helping our youngsters learn it! I want to be able to supply them with cameras to practice framing shots and maybe handycams to practice scenes...
What is that saying "if you can dream it, you can do it" so teach them to begin dreaming very young!!
But wow, I think this would be practical besides super cool to have. How much easier would it be to film the chase scenes. Can get tons of practice without needing the actors even. Just me, the camera girl and the woods! Maybe even create some "raw footage" that we can sale as 'stock"... hehe
I am not the best storyteller of my people, which is what makes me feel like this project will only get better and better as others feel confident to want theirs filmed too!
The BOS series is meant to be told in film, animated movies, graphic novels, novels and video games. I think once they see we can do it any style we want they will be eager to go for it too!
I truly believe my culture is unique and interesting and then there is the rest of "Alyeska" too!
I have several 'chase' scenes in my BOS trilogy of terror so it would be used over and over... hehe, talking myself into really needing this equipment :p
Anyway, what inspires you? What makes you smile and feel "thrilled" at all the possibilities?
hugs,
~Sea
ps) they say to mention to "like" this comment and to share it and to follow this blog so you never miss one... not sure it works but lets see what happens :p
Wow, look at this:
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DJI Zenmuse Z15-A7 3-Axis Gimbal for Sony a7S / a7R |
Just imagine how much easier the chase scenes will be to film using this instead of one of my crew endlessly running in front and behind each actor! :p
Man, it makes me wish I had gotten into film making ages ago! My non-profit TCOOO/FWP (that is not quite up and running yet) will definitely work on helping our youngsters learn it! I want to be able to supply them with cameras to practice framing shots and maybe handycams to practice scenes...
What is that saying "if you can dream it, you can do it" so teach them to begin dreaming very young!!
But wow, I think this would be practical besides super cool to have. How much easier would it be to film the chase scenes. Can get tons of practice without needing the actors even. Just me, the camera girl and the woods! Maybe even create some "raw footage" that we can sale as 'stock"... hehe
I am not the best storyteller of my people, which is what makes me feel like this project will only get better and better as others feel confident to want theirs filmed too!
The BOS series is meant to be told in film, animated movies, graphic novels, novels and video games. I think once they see we can do it any style we want they will be eager to go for it too!
I truly believe my culture is unique and interesting and then there is the rest of "Alyeska" too!
I have several 'chase' scenes in my BOS trilogy of terror so it would be used over and over... hehe, talking myself into really needing this equipment :p
Anyway, what inspires you? What makes you smile and feel "thrilled" at all the possibilities?
hugs,
~Sea
ps) they say to mention to "like" this comment and to share it and to follow this blog so you never miss one... not sure it works but lets see what happens :p
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