Vengeance

The first screenplay I ever wrote was a slasher called Vengeance that changed a lot over its life cycle. Basically, I was learning to write something new, and through lots of feedback, the script and story changed into what it is now. I novelized that script, and it is presently available as a Kindle book. Once I get the cover I have in my head completed, I'll release a print version as well.

While it began life as a slasher, it turned into something much better, and the novelization takes it one step further by painting some pretty decent characters and ensuring that the heartstrings are played at least a little anytime one of them meets an untimely end. It still possesses some tropes of the slasher genre, and the end does indicate a sequel (though I'll need to reconstruct it as I lost that draft when I accidentally reformatted the hard drive it lived on).

But overall, I think the novel turned out better than the script, and while someone did option the script once, it came to nothing as these things often do. I do hope you enjoy the book though.

Looking Forward

This is a new beginning. On here, I'll try to be short and relevant. Give single topics of interest to you who might follow what I'm doing, but not overwhelm you with tons of info on a single post. After all, we all have better things to do. I have better things to write, and you have better things to read.

The last post on this blog was in 2011. That's a long time ago and a lot has changed. The idea for many projects has fallen by the wayside and I primarily focus on writing books at this point. I have seven books on Amazon now of a variety of genres. Four of them are of the Fempiror Chronicles, one is anew series called The Maze, and the other two are sort of one-offs. Well, one says "to be continued...'' but we'll see.

All of my books are available to purchase on the Kindle as well as being available to borrow with the Kindle Unlimited subscription service. In fact, for the foreseeable future, I plan on making all of my books available through this Kindle Unlimited, so a subscription to that is like unlimited future reads of whatever I write. I'm not sure if that's motivation or not.

After completing the fourth Fempiror book, I'm turning my focus to The Maze, primarily, but I have ideas for others as well. I would like to increase my book output considerably, if I can, but I know that means focusing more time on it. You know, instead of focusing time on other things...like video games and Facebook.

So in the spirit of keeping this short and relevant, this is where I'll end this. knock on wood, I'll use this blog for short, relevant posts related to bigger things as opposed to lengthy rants about politics, religion, and the way of the world. Seriously, that's what the books are for.

Plans for 2011

So we have a new year upon us, and I figure it's a good time to look at my long range plans and see where I actually stand. I wanted to have produced another feature or two by now, I had planned to complete another novel as well, and I wanted to also have completed one of my concept recordings at least. Well, as life tends to go, I got very little of that done.

If I weigh out what I could realistically complete, I have the following ideas:

1. I recently finished the first draft of the 3rd Fempiror book, so I could have that one in the bag in a few months.

2. My two favorite low budget features are Alien Proof and Inexplicable. I want to start working on Inexplicable first since it requires no digital effects for any part of it. Alien Proof is Sci-Fi, so I at least need some kind of spaceship effect along with either a way to fake my way around a spaceship set or an actual set. Bit more of a budget there, but the script is hilarious.

3. I always want to do something album related, but I'm not sure of the best way yet. I could probably record 100% of it myself, and if I limit myself to 10-12 songs, it might be more doable than the concept album.

4. Beyond the 3rd Fempiror book, I have other stories I want to write. One is a sci-fi epic along a completely different vein from Fempiror called The Armor of Belial, but it's also only one book. Like Fempiror, it's a screenplay I wrote, but the budget on that one would be so high that without an existing novel, no one would ever make it. I figure once I have the 3rd Fempiror book done, I'll write that one while I'm working out the story for the 4th Fempiror. I also have a series of children's books in my head, but I'll either need to work out my art skills or have someone else good at art to illustrate.

Such are the plans. I want to be more active in updating this blog with actual progress, which means I have to make actual progress.

Status Update

It's been several months since I've posted and I thought it would be fair to post an update as to where we stand. The One Night soundtrack is at a complete standstill partly due to time and partly due to no female singer. All attempts to solicit a female singer have met with failure leading me to believe that maybe now isn't the time for this.

I'm wanting to temporarily move on to another feature in the hopes that maybe I'll run into someone who can sing who knows someone else interested in completing this One Night project with me. I would really like to complete it in the near future. It should never have taken this long. That seems to be my mantra, doesn't it?

For a feature, I've got Inexplicable on the brain as well as two others: one is called Alien Proof which is a comedy I'd done with some Australians a few years back and another is incomplete for the moment, but is an Amnesia thriller. I've been writing it specifically to utilize locations that I should be able to easily get. It's about halfway done, but since I'm writing it under part of a challenge, there's a due date of September 7 (I think) to adhere to. Therefore, it will be done in a couple of weeks. So with three features sitting right there, I'm seriously considering doing more than one at a time. We'll see...

The only other thing is the third Fempiror book, and I've been dreadfully slow at getting it written. I'm on Chapter 3, which is slow considering how quickly I had the first draft of book two done. Need to work on it.

The Fempiror Chronicles: Genesis of the Mutation

The second Fempiror novel is available and has been for a few months now. I had posted it on Facebook, but never did on here. There hasn't been much to report.

Logline: David Taylor investigates the emergence of a new evolution of Fempiror.

Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure

Get it on CreateSpace

Get it on Amazon

Updates to Fempiror and One Night

I've complete the first draft of Genesis of the Mutation, gotten through the big rough draft revision, and had my number one reader go through it for an initial critique. I have to read through it again and finish the artwork before I can order the first proof. Once we have that, we'll read through it again a couple times and I'll probably revise again before it's finished, but we're close.

On One Night, we're very nearly done with the instrumental tracks and will start on the vocals soon. If all goes well, by May, we should have both projects out there and available.

Status of One Night Concept Album

Thought I'd go ahead and post where this project is since it is next on the agenda. Robert and I are working on recording the instrumental backgrounds for it at the moment. We're breaking down the sequenced parts track by track so we can place any effects needed on the individual pieces and adjust as needed. Besides, it adds a human element to the perfection of the machine since we will have to manually align each part by ear.

Currently, we've done Act One, with the exception of one song. Once that song is done, the majority of Act Two is clear sailing, so it won't likely take too long to get through the instrumental parts and get to recording the voices. I'm waiting on casting the vocal parts until the instrumental parts are done and I can lock down a date or date range to record everyone in. Since it's a group in a controlled environment for a two hour show, it should only take a couple days to rehearse it out and record it.

This process is assisted by the fact that I plan on doing the most demanding vocal part myself, though I don't mind sharing. Once this project is done, we'll move on to the next movie called Inexplicable.