Groggy, weary, punchy, zapped. Since April I have written 304 pages and 99,386 words on the
Dunwich Diversity Seminar. As
mentioned, I have floundered in the
horse latitudes on this book, abandoning my failed outline, and compelled to write fresh new chapters where the old ones no longer held purchase. Now I find I must add gleaming new chapters to the opening to make the later new chapters sing.
But the toughest section is complete. I sense story cuts in my future, but it's all fine tuning from here on out. Will I reach a Halloween release? Tough to say. My paying job demands my full attention now and much more in the coming weeks.
That said, I'd rather have the story right, then meet a deadline with less than my best.
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| Weekend guests arrive at the Innsmouth Quality Inn. |
10 comments:
Hi, John.
Do you think you will have it ready for Halloween? I'd to get into the Cthulhu mythos. I've only read The Call and Dagon and Jill (by the way, I imagined either SNL's Bill Hader or Adam Sandler doing the voice of the mad guy and Will Farrell doing the publisher's). I still have to read the rest of the stories in those anthologies, but if you could only read 5 Cthulhu mythos stores, which ones would you pick?
Talking about Dunwich and writing, I think I finally conceived a full plot in my mind, and it doesn't look that bad on paper. Oddly enough, the genre and main references are completely out of my field. I have a 300 words version in English. Can I send it to you to get your thoughts?
I won't have it ready now. I need to finish this draft and turn loose the beta readers.
I wouldn't mind having Adam Sandler/Will Ferrel reading anything I did.
Send it along. Love to see it.
Wayne Knight, could provide a very dramatic and histeric tone, now that I think about it.
I think it would work well as a radio skit. Maybe a podcast with you Paul!
I send the e-mail to tiempohablar, I'm not sure if you still use it.
Rarely.
But it's still open for business.
Well, it's there. I hope you enjoy it.
Got it.
I'll get back to you on email.
I can't wait to read your story. Don't rush or you'll just end up re-writing. Get it as close to right as you feel comfortable with.
The last draft is much closer to something presentable.
I should be updating the progress soon.
I just watched Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein and it was unavoidable for me to think about what you said about how being clueless in the face of horror is funny. In scary scenes they use either that (like when Costello goes into the Wolf Man's room) or they have Costello being scared and Abbott not believing him. Sometimes it's funny because of the way Costello gets sillier when scared.
A&B Meet Frankenstein is a good example.
Another is Ghostbusters, where the menace is real—Marshmallow Man excepted—but the reactions are funny, such as Bill Murray meeting up with Sigourney Weaver after she is possessed by Zule. ("So the flowers worked.")
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