Been a while since I blogged here.  Really, since I’ve actively blogged at all, aside from the odd bit on Facebook or Xanga here and there.  But I much prefer this blog so here I am.  Can’t guarantee how frequent I’ll be here, but we’ll see.

Sacrament

At the last minute, I’m thinking I’ll end up changing the title of Borrowed Life back to Sacrament.  I think it works better and makes the most sense with what the movie is trying to say.

I learned a lot with BL.  More about what not to do, mostly on the pre-production side.  Everybody’s work on it was wonderful, but my lack of preparation shows.  All of its flaws are mine.  Expect it up by the end of the month.

Tools

Man what a month!  Canon’s upcoming 550D is likely the camera I’m going to try and acquire.  1080p, compatible with Canon lenses with no adapter?  I’m there.  Super exciting.

I’m also planning to give in and buy Movie Magic Screenwriter.  It comes highly recommended by some professional writers I’m in contact with, and I’ve enjoyed using the demo in the past.

What’s Next?

I’m pretty sure that I know what I want to do next, having learned my lessons with Sacrament.  Not much to say about it yet, but it’ll come with time.  It’ll be a pretty huge undertaking, but it’ll be something fresh for Christian media, I think.  Look for more info here soon.  My brain gave up a pretty vital piece of information on it tonight, so I’m excited to start working on it soon.

Some personal growth stuff should be in my next post.  God and I are working on my place in all of this “Christian Media” talk.

SHC

Enjoying a time of transition after a long period of frustration and near stall-out.

Production on Borrowed Life went wonderfully.  Finishing up the edit now with a few things to tweak and polish up.  I’m proud of the work that everyone did.

Next up is finishing a draft of my novel, Magehatten.  If that thing ever sells I’m sure I’ll need a new title…

Then it’s throwing myself into my dream project; writing, producing and directing MOTG.

I have a busy year or two ahead, I think.

Stay tuned.

-SHC

Kate and I are spending the weekend with my parents.  Home is always a little odd, but often refreshing.

I managed to get some work done while here, like starting the script for MOTG, and it is flowing rather nicely.

Now I’m hoping Orlando can pull ahead of the Lakers’ 16 point lead before this game is over.  It doesn’t look good…

So I’m kind of annoyed with Apple for dropping a new lineup of Macbook Pro’s, including a new variant of mine that is several hundred dollars cheaper, two weeks after I bought mine.  It’s fine, that was the value of mine at the time that I bought it and it’s a very powerful machine… but still.  Thanks for putting something up on the website for those of us who don’t keep up with the annual Apple Conference or whatever.

Otherwise, this is a wonderful machine.

Sorry if this post is a little cranky- I’m nursing a headache and I’m very tired.  I am supposing that I got dehydrated, and that combined with paint fumes while I worked on a friend’s bathroom this afternoon.

I am trying to decide what ideas to turn into short stories for an anthology I am writing.  I will ultimately sell it through Amazon’s Kindle marketplace, as well as through my blog.  I don’t know for how much but in an age where delivery is digital and you can print the thing yourself if you like, I imagine it will be cheap.  I may investigate having hard copies made, but I imagine the audience I am looking for is web-savvy enough that they either have a Kindle, have the Kindle App for their iTouch or iPhone or they don’t mind reading it online.  The irony here is, of course, that I despise reading stories and books online.

John August priced his short story, The Variant (which is excellent, and worth buying) at .99 for a thirty-ish page piece.  I can’t imagine pushing much further than that, depending on how long the collection turns up.  But 99 cents a short story seems fitting, so probably something like $3 for the book.

All three stories are linked together by the themes of time travel and love/faithfulness.  I don’t know what I’m going to title the collection yet, but I am leaning towards calling it Timeless, which would have it share the title of one of the stories.

Time to go get some Chick-Fil-A and relax.

SHC

Today I made a second pass on an outline.  I’m pretty happy with it.  If I get to do it, it will be 45 minutes long, which is probably 25-30 minutes longer than Sacrament.

It would also be ridiculous.  There are three pretty big action sequences in it, all space sci-fi in nature.  It hinges on a concept that I don’t think I have seen before, which is even more exciting.

But, under all that is a nice little story about marriage, which is what I really wanted to do.  The project is called Timeless.

Now that I’ve got it out of my system, though, it’s time to revamp Sacrament and keep getting ready for production for it in August.