It's May, it's May, hurray.
What's more, I actually met a deadline. I turned in the first draft of my script for episode eight of A GAME OF THRONES to David and Dan on the day it was due. Today, as it happens.
It's too long and too expensive, but that's true of every first draft teleplay and screenplay that I ever wrote. I've titled it "The Pointy End," though I don't know if that will endure. Last I heard, it hadn't been decided whether we'd be using episode titles or not.
One monkey off my back. At least until it's time for rewrites, and the second draft.
Other monkeys are still frolicking up there, including Kong. He was a king in his world, but we'll teach him fear...
What's more, I actually met a deadline. I turned in the first draft of my script for episode eight of A GAME OF THRONES to David and Dan on the day it was due. Today, as it happens.
It's too long and too expensive, but that's true of every first draft teleplay and screenplay that I ever wrote. I've titled it "The Pointy End," though I don't know if that will endure. Last I heard, it hadn't been decided whether we'd be using episode titles or not.
One monkey off my back. At least until it's time for rewrites, and the second draft.
Other monkeys are still frolicking up there, including Kong. He was a king in his world, but we'll teach him fear...
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- 5 Mar 2018, 19:17Still working on that. When we have a final, I will share it.
- 5 Mar 2018, 05:32All the Wild Cards books under Tor have had absolutely stellar covers. I'd frame them and hang them on my wall if I could.
- 4 Mar 2018, 03:28Are all these examples digital artwork? It doesn't look like traditional oil on canvas. I miss the fantasy/sci-fi covers of the '70s and '80s. Even the paperbacks had amazing covers.
- 3 Mar 2018, 17:49Whatever anyone can get their hands on is, I suspect, the right answer.
At the last party, it was an open bar with pretty much everything you can imagine on offer. There were some special drinks as… - 3 Mar 2018, 00:07Any chance you could tell us who’s doing the cover art for Fire and Blood? And maybe when we can expect a glimpse of it. Thank you!
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Who knows, even if it doesn't, I would think there's a good chance another station might nab it and finish it- maybe showtime or something? A guy can hope, right?
And tame that damn, dirty ape already!!!
I really enjoyed your interview at DragonPage; I actually agree with what you say about impatience being at lest in part age related. I am of the internet, "on.demand", "entitlement" generation: in fact, I actually was an impatiant and angry fan of you who on this very blog of yours called for an uprisal of mountains and seas..
But I believe that there is a way, in aging, in life (I hate how rethorical all of this sounds, but, this is it..) in which we are called back to our matterly world, where, if fortunate, we learn to understand how the core, the "heart of every thing", to use Natsume Soseki's words, lays not in the intent, not in a demand, not in the pure will. Is more of an acquired taste, which has to be assumed, and consumed, and waited for. Because it is the only way anything would worth something..
Then, nothing but thanks; I really hope you succeed in being rememvered for an outstanding, if not perfect, work. In my eyes you already have..
As for your screenplay, isn't it natural that it'd be too long and too expensive? I mean, it's natural to get excited over this, right?
Anyway, good news are good! I can't wait to see this on screen. Episode 8, if I remember right, uh? XD Still a long way to go before I can finally watch it~~
Kong - that's a nice image. Maybe Dany can tweak its fur a bit. (I've started to call mine Cthulhu because of all those plot tentacles.) :)
I gather she may be back in later episodes as well.
But hey, I liked Ros, the Red-Headed Whore. Especially after I met Esme Bianco, who plays her.
Maybe I'll add her to the books...
I and my kids will make some chili con queso to celebrate!!! btw, do you have Parris' recipe for us to use? We rather want that!! ^_^ (thanks phipps!!!!) ^_^
Good news, and let's hope to have that monkey biplaned off the Empire State soon :-)
It probably is too expensive, though. Too many characters, too many settings, too many SFX shots. What meathead wrote this novel, anyway?
For example I'm a huge Band of Brothers fan so I'll make a reference the episode "Bastogne" and I'll get a blank face and have to be like "...the snow episode... about the medic"
Either way, we can always be nerds and call this episode by that title no matter what they finally call it if anything at all.