Percival Constantine's Blog, page 18
March 13, 2013
Randomization
Do you know what digital media needs?
Okay, that’s a topic that could provide the basis for an entirebook. So instead, let me give you a simple scenario. You’re sitting at home one night and scrolling through your streaming service of choice, or maybe even your personal library on a media box like Roku or Apple TV. You come across one of your favorite shows. Maybe it’sBuffy the Vampire Slayer, maybe it’sSupernatural, maybe it’sThe X-Files, maybe it’sOne Life to Live(hey, who am I to judge?). Y...
March 6, 2013
Kill Your Bastards
Faulkner once said, “in writing, you must kill your darlings.” He was referring generally to those sections of writing that you’re really in love with, but it’s also been applied to kill off your favorite characters. In this case, I’m using it to refer to characters who you created but then sort of forgot about, your bastards. Hence, I’m changing Faulker’s quote from “kill your darlings” to “kill your bastards.”
If you look at the image, you’ll see a very small (very incomplete) list of charac...
March 5, 2013
Cadaver Island
Pro Se Productions Proudly Presents CADAVER ISLAND, the debut novel from Author Kevin Rodgers!
In the year 2212, long after the world has been reshaped by seismic cataclysms and polar shifts, Princess Angelique Bosc recovers from a terrible Hovercraft accident, which left her injured and near death. Her friend and physician, Dr. Laurent Stine, used his skills as a robotics engineer to replace her damaged organs with android components. Angelique realizes that her mechanical heart will require...
February 14, 2013
Work In Progress
I’m still muddling through the middle ofSoulQuest. This one section of the book is proving pretty difficult to write for some reason and I’m not really sure why. It could just be some general fatigue with the project as a whole. It’s been a while since I’ve written a longer piece than the novellas I’ve become known for over the past few years.
I’ve got a new piece I sent in to GaijinPot last weekend, which my editor told me would be up soon. So it will probably turn up by the weekend or early...
February 13, 2013
Superman, Card, and Free Speech
Yesterday was a pretty big day in comics news. Social media was blazing with commentary, both fan and professional, over DC’s decision to hire Orson Scott Card to write a story for their upcoming digital exclusive series,The Adventures of Superman.For those who aren’t aware, Card is a best-selling and award-winning science fiction author ofEnder’s Game(with a film adaptation due out in November), among other works.
Card is also a well-known homophobe. In the early 90s, he said anti-sodomy laws...
February 12, 2013
Making The Punisher Work
I want you to think for a moment about how many successful movies and TV shows have featured a veritable one-man army taking the law into his own hands and dealing out harsh justice to some well-deserving bad guys.
Can you think of one? My guess is you probably have difficulty thinking ofjustone. That’s becauseHollywood has a very, very,verylong history of telling these types of stories, and why not? They’re straightforward, they don’t have to be expensive, and people seem to really like them....
February 8, 2013
How to Bring the Justice League to Life
Ever sinceThe Avengers proved to not only be a massive financial success, but also a textbook example of how to do a superhero film right, Warner Bros. has been extremely antsy about bringing the DC Universe to cinematic life to compete with Disney and Marvel. But it’s been met with numerous obstacles, the latest reported from Badass Digest that Will Beall’s Darkseid-centered script has been trashed.
Here are some things Warner Bros. needs to do.
1. Get your own Kevin Feige
You know how the Marv...
February 5, 2013
Pulp Ark Ballot now available!
The nominations for the Pulp Ark Awards of 2013 have now come to a close. If you sent in your nominations by the deadline, you should have received an e-mail from Tommy Hancock with the final ballot. Make sure you send in your votes! Please note thatonlythose who participated in the nominations are eligible to participate in the final voting. So if you didn’t send in any nominations, you won’t be able to vote. Keep that in mind when the Pulp Ark Award nominations for 2014 roll around in Decem...
January 17, 2013
My Problems with UltraViolet
My first introduction to UltraViolet came through Vudu. Before I picked up my Apple TV, I would often use Vudu to rent digital movies and watch them through my PS3. Once, while searching through new rentals on Vudu’s site, they advertised a program called Disc-to-Digital. I read into it out of curiosity, and here’s what has to be done.
1. Create a Vudu account. Okay, already have one. Also need an UltraViolet account and need the two linked. Umm…okay?
2. Create a movie list of DVDs and/or Blu-r...
The Muddling Middle
Yesterday, I passed the 25K mark onSoulQuest, so I’ve hit the middle of my 50K goal. Crossing the 50% mark on a project is both exciting and scary and it’s when I enter what I like to call the Muddling Middle.
On every project, when I hit the 50% mark, there are two thoughts that occur to me. The first is, “wow, I’ve made it to the halfway point! This is great, I’m going to finish this thing!” And then the second thought is one of panic: “Wait…I’monlyhalfway through? All the work I’ve done so...
