Okay, so, I have like, extra stuff?
I have stuff
people send me, and stuff of my own that doesn't quite fit on the
other pages...so welcome to The Magic Box! One
great thing about this page is that it finally gives me an excuse
to use the above pic of
Amber Benson, in which she looks more awesome than all the awesomeness
in the world put together, somewhere on my website. Another great
thing is the aforementioned other stuff...I'll be adding things
here as I go, one or two things of my own, but mostly, I hope, stuff
from you guys! Feel free to send me stuff! Send me all your stuff! All of it! Now! Except, y'know, your gross stuff? Don't send me any gross stuff.
(Also, Eliza Dushku, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan and
Amber Benson, if any of you guys want to send me stuff? Go right ahead.)
BATMAN: HAUNTED
The
first thing I ever tried to write was a movie script, partly because I
was afraid to write prose. I had this idea for a Batman story, because
everyone who has ever been exposed to the character has an idea for a
Batman story? (You probably have one too. Don't deny it.) Even Joss Whedon wrote a Batman story--he pitched his own reimagining of the
Batman movie franchise to Warner Brothers before they settled on the
current excellent Chris Nolan/Christian Bale series. And since I
apparently want to write all the things Joss Whedon ever wrote,
including, it seems, his unproduced movie pitches (should I write
Wonder Woman next?), I wrote a Batman script. I spent some time learning script format, which is only a little more complicated
than inventing a working space shuttle in your garage, and then got to work. I started work on mine
before Joss started his, but I actually probably finished mine
later. Writing your first script is hard. And of course, since I really
do like women as my protagonists, my story isn't actually really about
Batman so much as his Robin--a
girl in my conception, since I thought that would be cooler and less,
well, lame (I have awful memories of that George Clooney movie with
Chris O'Donnell as Robin doing that lame windsurfing stunt.) This girl
grows up to become the next Batman (Batwoman?) and this script is really
her story. Writing this script taught me a lot of things--about the
discipline needed to really craft a story, about listening to your
characters, about how to plot, and more than anything else, about how
annoying movie script format can be. Anyway, click on the link above if
you're interested in what I think should have been done with the Batman
franchise.
(Also,
I totally
think that in the current movie Rachel Dawes should have become
Two-Face, not Harvey Dent. That way Rachel, instead of being
a typical damsel in distess--yawn--could have spent the next movie
trying to kill Bruce because she blames his Batman crusade for her
disfigured face, as well as the fact that they could never have a
relationship. How cool would that have been? Girl-power!)
WALLPAPERS BY PHOENIX!
One
of my readers, Phoenix, recently sent me a wallpaper she created based
on a chapter of one of my books, and I just had to share it, because of
the awesomeness? I'm hoping she'll do many more for me. For now, enjoy
this one! It's based on The New World, Chapter Six.
AN MP3 BY AJ!
One of my readers, AJ, mixed an MP3 for me, inspired by Revelations. Check
it out, it rocks! It's called "Sidetracked", and it really does have
that feeling of being lost and desperate, just like the characters are
in Revelations at the moment...I do such mean things to my characters.
I'm really a horrible person. I'll try to be nicer to them. Well,
except for that one I'm gonna be killing off...but I'll try to be nicer
to the rest of them. Okay, I'm completely lying? I'm gonna stop lying
now. (I was only lying about the being nicer to the characters part, by
the way. Wasn't lying about how I'm about to kill one off.)
Anyway, where was I? Right! Click on the link below and get Sidetracked!
