Catching Up...
Well, I was trying to wait for my cousin to see the last post before posting again, but I sent him a direct link, so it's cool. I was also waiting for my next interview to post, but it hasn't made it up there yet. And since I said I was going to try to make this somewhat daily or at least every other day I feel I owe it to you all to post something. So here I am.
Watched Prison Break finally and the pace of the plot is starting to pick up as Burrows has only ten days before his execution. Now a cleaner organization has tracked down his attorneys and his son. Scofield was forced to allow another criminal in on his plan. Things just aren't looking good. It's edge of your seat, tense, emotional action/drama and I love it! I haven't been this into a show like this since John Doe (ironically starring the same guy playing Burrows in this show) and The Pretender, two of the best shows ever to air in my opinion. It really upsets me that both of those shows were ended on cliffhangers that will probably never be resolved. Even the Pretender movies didn't further the plot enough to be of any substance. Oh well...
I am trying to put some finishing touches on my second crack at the overview for my Platinum gig. I'm having some trouble, but hopefully I'll be able to send them something in the next couple of days. I'm sure they're getting anxious. I know I am.
I'm getting some colors in for Wanabez and trying to go over them with my editor and artist so I can tell the colorist what's good and what needs improved a bit. That's harder than it would seem. I wish I knew more about coloring so I could relate what I'm thinking better. I do know what looks good and what I like, but it's hard to lay that out in coloring terms. I do have pretty good knowledge of photoshop, but still. All in all, Kyle is doing a great job and has been a real sport with the corrections I've asked for. It's really down to determining some minor stuff to see whether it jives with me and the book or not. I know it will all work out.
I really need to get more focused with my writing soon. I've been so busy with relaunching The Comic Avalanche and trying to catch up with Scryptic Studios because I always feel a step behind, which is not good for a site business manager! I have recently started to get involved more actively in some projects of mine, so that's a good first step on my part. I'm just a terrible time management guy. Ironically, I studied and did a comprehensive report on Time Management in college once, though I've never really applied it much. lol. I'm a wierd kind of cat, you see. I'm logical, somewhat intelligent, and very analytical and skeptical, yet I'm also artistic, adventureous, spontaneous and random. It's a very strange combo of traits to house and it causes some very conflicted emotions, feelings and decisions at times. Man, I'm just screwed up. lol. I don't think I've ever met someone who has problems with decisions and talks to themselves as much as I do.
See, now you all are going to stop reading what I write because you think I'm crazy. But hey, aren't we all just a little bit? :)
Okay, I'm just rambling now. Two more pieces of info and I'm calling it a night.
First up, there's a writing contest at Scryptic Studios right now. All you have to do is write a 3 page comic script being a complete story with beginning, middle and end pitting a superhero against a movie monster. The superhero can be any existing character or one you've created, and the monster can be any supernatural monster from movies, including zombies, ghosts, king kong, the Blob, etc., etc. Deadline is Dec. 1st. The prize? A copy of Movie Magic Screenwriter from Write Brothers, Inc. This is the official scriptwriting program of Hollywood as well as for Scryptic Studios. Retail Value of $200.00. Not too shabby of a prize for a free entry contest, huh? Check out the full story here: http://www.scrypticstudios.com/index.php/news/640
Check out a review of the software here: http://www.scrypticstudios.com/index.php/news/640
And in closing I thought I'd leave you guys with a poem I wrote in college that gained me an Editor's Choice Award. If you can't tell by the poem itself, I was going through some stuff. Enjoy! :)
THE ABYSS
by Brant W. Fowler
Surrounded by an emptiness in a place full of dreams.
A void beckons me, but neither thoughts nor action comes.
Encompassed by a multitude of possibilities, yet none are mine to have.
Lost in a sea; an abyss; a nothingness, where hope is not seen or heard.
Ships sail continually through the expanse, but none hail me.
None can see my plight, or they simply ignore it.
Vague images of peace and happiness from a time past perhaps invade my pondering.
They soon fade away.
The bleakness of the present overshadows the past.
The images continue to invade, but the emptiness eats at them.
They push through the current and come to the surface.
I am made aware that they are not of past, but of future.
A ship sails by and eases into the dock where I sit.
The delivery is for me.
Emptiness begins to fade. Void begins to be filled.
The abyss, the sea, is a place of solitude.
The air is crisp and the breeze is cool.
I have caught up with time, and my ship has finally come in.
Time stands still.
I once again ponder my circumstance, ignoring the ship that hails me.
All is lost. The sea is dark and the ship sails away.
I am faced with the overwhelming abyss.
My ship has come.
I have not seen or heard.
I am overtaken by the silence of the abyss.
It has become me. . .
I have become it.
B-Out
posted by Brant W. Fowler @ 3:44 AM
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Brant that is a bizarre poem ... Let me explain.
In about 1994/ 1995 I was having a hard time in my life (I am not suggesting that you are) and I wrote a poem called The Abyss.
I can't believe that I am telling you this, but it was actually a suicide note. Once I read it over, I was so shocked by how deeply depressed I had become that I wrote a stream of poems. Over the next few weeks, all this shit came out and I started to feel better.
Sorry for the side-track, but I just wanted to let you know that I really respect the breadth of your talents.
Wow, that's wild, man. I wasn't quite at that point when I wrote this, but I was going through some stuff and was in and out of depression at the time. There was a lot of change in my life and a lot of confusion. I have been to that point before when I was younger, in my mid to late teens, and some of this stems from that and things that were never resolved (I wrote this when I was about 22, a little over 6 years ago).
But poetry was definitely a release for me at that period in my life, and it was very therapeutic I guess would be the word. As you can tell, it's a deep, emotional poem, and it says a lot if you break it down. A lot of people don't get it because I do tend to write deep stuff like that. But those that do are like, wow, I didn't know there was that depth in you.
I appreciate the compliment, Jason, it really means a lot. My poetry has really been the most expressive form of my writing to date, but I hope to bring that depth out in a lot of things I write in the present and future. I really do believe in most cases writers inject a piece of themselves in the characters they write. I think it's necessary for various reasons, but most importantly because if the writer isn't passionate about the character then noone else will be. And for the writer to be passionate about the character there has to be something in the character the writer can relate to.
But anyway, I'm rambling now. Thanks for reading and I'm glad it made a connection. It meant a lot to me then and it means a lot to me now, the poem. It has become this huge part of my life in a most unexpected way. It's kind of a reminder, a warning, and a lot of other things. It's wild how little things like that can mean so much. I just hope someday I am able to impact even more people.
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