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Live Action Animation and Live Action Kevin!

  • Writer: Kevin Ryan
    Kevin Ryan
  • Sep 5, 2021
  • 4 min read

Hello,


Third blog means this is now pretty much a series of blogs I'm doing, right? OK then...


I've finished my last genre challenge which was a stop motion animation. Pretty pleased with the story. It's about household objects that believe they need to escape a zombie apocalypse. First they need to escape their house without the annoying Flo the carpet floor joining them. It's a stupid, ridiculous story but I like some of the dialogue anyway. The picture is of Flappy the Oven Mitt which has been one of our newer additions to our house.


Next genre is Live Action Animation.

That will be due by midnight on September 12th. It seems like it will be fun, of course the first movies that will come to mind are Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam so I think I'm going to be leaning once again into comedy. It would be nice to focus on a different type though. Checking the list again, I now know this is the tenth genre I will have completed so that is a little bit of a milestone!


Any suggestions for what I should do to treat myself for that little accomplishment will be briefly considered!


Since I don't have much to write about on the topic of this #55Genres challenge I will stretch this blog out by mentioning other writing related stuff.


If anyone reads this and is stuck on writing or feeling a little bit unproductive, then I will mention that I have found this to be a really fun and easy way to practice writing consistently. In fairness, I am pretty good at writing most days but what I have found is that writing short after short in different genres has helped me get out of my head a bit in regards to being so critical of myself. Every genre I "have" to write is due in 10 days so I "have" to write something. Anything. Even if it is rubbish. It has made me focus less on "quality" and more on quantity but then now after 9 (soon to be 10) shorts, I don't mind any of them. They are all pretty cool in their own way. I have told some people about different shorts and have gotten decent interest about them.


So I'm NOT writing rubbish. How about that?


Of course, they are all in need of rewrites but then what script isn't?


Another plus point I would like to add to doing this challenge is that I see my ability to write a different short in 10 days as if it is a little bit of proof I can write. I mean, if I somehow landed in a writer's room or in some professional setting, I can remember that I can consistently hit a deadline. If I'm hired for a comedy (hands CV to Animaniacs team) I can surely write their idea in a genre I like since I wrote a short of my own idea in a genre I don't particularly like?


That's my thinking anyway. No harm in being positive!


Even this weekly blog adds to that practice for consistency.


On the topic of writing blogs. I have a series idea that I absolutely adore. Pax Alpha, I even started a twitter page for it and a website I'm still working on. It's an epic story set at the end of the Western Roman Empire, full of magic and monsters and a grandmother looking to get revenge on the Empire's newest heroic, undefeatable soldier. Pilot is written. I'm quite happy with it.

(Still work in progress but a page of the website. Janathan the Blue on twitter drew the ridiculously cool picture of one)


I am thinking of writing a blog for this Pax Alpha world too. I have an idea to create little short stories set in different periods. Before Rome's founding, Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, it's taking in about 1400 years of history. So I could write short stories of characters in different parts. Like fictional versions of real events really. For instance, Agricola's abandoned Roman invasion of Ireland which would include shapeshifting Puca monsters. The first emperor, Augustus and his grandson, Agrippa Posthumous, who was deemed so beastly that he was exiled from Rome to a small rock between it and Corsica. Augustus made the senate vow to never let Agrippa leave this rock in the ocean. Augustus visited his grandson shortly before the emperor died. For why? It's not known but once Augustus passed away shortly after the meeting, his bodyguards rushed to the island to murder Agrippa on final orders from the old emperor. Fascinating story, to me anyway.


Plenty of stories in history to adapt really. So I might add more work onto myself and start a weekly blog for Pax Alpha. A collection of tales of fictional Roman history to tie me over until I have Pax Alpha: the main series written and available on the site.


Plus! I do need to rewrite one or two other stories for reasons so I am going to be busy writing. Next week I will be writing a blog, probably detailing how I haven't finished my live action animation genre but there's no panic.


Now time for cats to be fed, they get fed before humans in our house for some reason.


Thanks for reading

Kevin





 
 
 

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