I have worked on several variations of this over the years. Initially, I wanted to shoot it as a small budget, live-action pilot with a few friends. Given the scope of the idea and my limited resources, as well as dwindling number of friends, I decided to work on other, less ambitious projects. For now, this is just the first draft of something that I enjoyed writing. This version was written as a half hour, animated comedy pilot.
When I was in 9th grade, my art teacher suggested that I see a counselor after reading my final exam paper. We were instructed to write a short story using a list of specific, art related, vocabulary words that we had learned throughout the semester. My story was about an artist who would stare through a small window night after night, and try his best to paint what he would see. As the days progressed, and the scenery changed, he became frustrated that he could never capture the world on his canvas as he saw it. And as he finished, he was forced to watch his art become meaningless as the day became night, and summer became fall, over and over until he eventually killed himself.
Yeah.
The counselor asked me a series of indirect questions to determine whether or not I needed counseling. “What was the artist feeling?” “Did the artist have friends” “Was the artist happy with his family?” Etc. I thought it was hilarious at the time. Now, I write an array of stories, comics, novels, podcasts, and such that tangentially or superficially touch upon themes that interest me. They aren’t a perfect reflection of me or my beliefs or even how I am feeling in the moment, but instead, elevated, hyperbolic, absurd hypothetical peepholes that show a world I see glimpses of from time to time.
This is a newer draft of Episode 3 of our upcoming podcast.
This is definitely an odd episode. I’m not sure what anyone will make of any of these, but I am enjoying the writing process.
I finished the first draft of Episode 2 today. Unfortunately, I’m a little behind in my writing due to my laptop screen committing suicide earlier this month, but I was able to fix it and now I am doing what I can to get back on track. This episode was fun to write, but I’m afraid a lot of the humor will come from delivery and as such it might not be a great read. Or, it’s very possible, that I am just a horrible writer. Either way, here is the first draft of Episode 2.
This is the script for Episode 1 of a podcast project that I am working on. Initially, when I began writing this script, I was determined to ignore whether or not it was “funny”, and focus on finishing. Doing so allowed me to get through the first draft without much incident, but the second draft did have its challenges. I still feel that the ending isn’t as strong as it could be, but I also have to move on to episode 2.
These stories will be loosely, mostly thematically, connected, so the eventual audioplay could be listened to as a random anthology of parts, or as a serialized whole.
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