So far the tide is running unanimously toward sit-com. In fact, opinion favors a program based on the adventures of a chicken named Flip who can tell the future - or can he? Flip is owned by a man no older than 23 and has a neighbor named Mr. Wilson whose catchphrase is: "Here come da eggs!" Of course, I've crafted nothing that creative.My sitcom is about three "Dodgeball"-like slackers who inherit a party clown business in Santa Barbara.
Novel 1 tells the story of a young suburban teen who reluctantly helps snotty aliens catch an interstellar bad guy using the power of ventriloquism.
Novel 2 is a graphic novel about a pacifist college professor who, through a bizarre chain of circumstances, finds himself turning into blood-thirsty viking whenever someone says "child crisis" or any other phrase found in It Takes a Village.
Friday will be decision day.
Updates will be bi-weekly.
Pony rides hang in the balance.
7 comments:
Whatever happened to the hunchback Elmo, and Professor Mancrisp? Were they not novel, or sitcom material?
I have a very long middle, but no end.
So they go back in the bullpen.
I am pro-Viking and anti-it-takes-a-village, so you are preaching to the choir, Word-boy.
Farley Johannssen
Tippetuucc, Minnesota
Thank you, Farley.
You'll be delighted to know the story takes place in Minnesota.
If you are in any way connected with state boosterism, feel free to let your colleagues know that their fine state will soon be mentioned. And that advertising space is available in the book.
You have very long middle but no end? Gosh, I guess the hunchback kid has it easy...
The greatest topper in the history of storytelling is the end of "Caddyshack", with the line delivered by the late Rodney Dangerfield and the mob following him over the hill to get laid. Works with ANY film. Imagine how it would improve "Casablanca", "Citizen Kane" or "Gone With the Wind."
Does this kind of advice make me a Hollywood 'Script Doctor?'
No.
But I like the way you think.
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