18 Story Engine and Wonderfalls

In another riveting episode, I discuss the ways a story engine drives a series, using the TV show Wonderfalls as an example. Other shows that get thrown around: Dead Like Me, Buffy, Battlestar Galactica miniseries, and especially Bones.

I’m working on an idea that would be a pilot if it made sense for me to write a pilot (it doesn’t) so in the course of this conversation with myself I figured out I should write it as a series of thirteen or twenty-four short stories about the same people. So like a TV series, but short stories. Will that work? We shall see.

Also working on finishing the draft of Summerlands despite constantly dashing off to do other things, like cut down trees, haul tree branches, saw up huge logs, and injure my obliques or whatever. Oblique is a very funny word for a muscle. Stop being so oblique!

The pain is super bad. I edited out the screams I scream when I move. You’re welcome. It’s always something. The pain meds kicked in about 2/3 of the way through so if it verges on thoughtful, meditative ASMR after that, that’s why.

Please send an email if you have questions, feedback, text suggestions, or answers to the question I pose near the end about how to write a scene where someone finally says all the pent up angry things they’ve needed to say for sixteen years. How does that scene need to go so it doesn’t fall flat? I’m all ears.

Sacred cheese of life!