Brain Poops

For your consideration: my Writer Shrine

Someone asked me in the most recent live chat how to go about writing a script. They asked what kind of software to use and for a tutorial.

I gave him a brief run-down in the chat, but I’d like to give a more elaborate explanation here.

Simply put: just write.

In a world full of plasticine technocrap, it isn’t hard to think that if you have the right program for the job the rest will come naturally.

Ha Ha.

Writing is one of the oldest forms of expression man has utilized, and it takes no more than something to write on and something to write with. Words written on toilet paper with a concoction of feces and soot is just as valid as writing carved into the side of a mountain in forty-foot letters¹. The meaning of the words should trump the medium it’s written on, not the other way around.

(continue reading…)

So these two scripts were adapted in no time. To be frank there’s only one real script. Activist Boy was written when people got their knickers in a twist over the soldier doing the ole puppy-chuck on video. People didn’t seem to mind when tens of thousands of civilians died, or thousands of soldiers… yet one fucking puppy and the world was in an uproar.

Thus, I wrote Activist Boy.

The other was just a passive aggressive way for me to deal with people who had a hard time reading more than one page of dialog. Although it would be awesome to see it acted out, I sincerely doubt anyone has the balls.

For the curious, here is Sans Dialogue.

Now I need to sleep a bit. Might have a new video up later.