THE FISHERY: a diary of the Loose-Fish Project

I’ve had a lot of folks tell me that while they’re enjoying The Good Captain, they’re not sure if they’re reading it the right way.  To which I tell them that however they read it is the right way.  Below I’ve compiled numerous ways you can follow the story, depending on your taste.

Sign up for a Twitter account, go the the Good Captain twitter page and click Follow.  Through twitter, you can receive story updates via IM, text message or using one of many applications.  My preferred app is a Firefox plugin called Twitbin, which sits open in my browser sidebar.

To follow via email, you can sign up for an account at twittermail, and they will send your twitter updates to an address of your choosing. If you don’t want to sign up for a Twitter account, there are other alternatives.

Web:  you can read at your leisure or catch up with updates you’ve missed at GoodCaptain.com, which redirects to the twitter page.  
News Reader: subscribe to the RSS feed here.  
Also, the most recent updates will also be available on the sidebar of this blog.

The Twitter Fan Wiki has a giant list of other applications and tools you can use to follow the story in just the way you want to. 

My good friend Julie is a script reader and consultant. She runs a wonderful site for screenwriters called The Rouge Wave, so named after he favorite script typo.

Today, I’ve got a guest post at her blog talking about Loose-Fish, and I go into a little more detail about how I arrived at this point coming out of my frustrations with the screenwriting process. It might ruffle a few feathers. Check it out when you get a chance.

Let us know what you think. Conchord commenting rules apply.

An LA Times interview with Herskovitz about why he’s stopped producing for television and has turned to the web for his new show, Quarterlife.

The first twitter fiction I ever saw was Zombie Attack, a first person account of, well, a zombie attack. Zombie Attack went quiet back in July, but yesterday, they started updating again. Welcome back!

Our presentation went very well, and a lot of folks seems to be interested in what we’re doing.  Here are the slides we used to present.  I read the text (or a loose approximation of it) and Bronwen controlled the slides.There is an audio recording of it, and I will try to get my hands on it.  It includes the  Q&A period afterwards.

It’s become clear to me that at some point, my idea of what makes a good story has diverged from the mainstream. I have a hard time with many movies these days, where it seems that no matter how interesting it is in the beginning, the end degenerates into twenty minutes of blowing things up, mayhem, or chaos that rises to the level of absurdity. Take the ending of the recent remake of “3:10 To Yuma,” with its never-ending gunfight and ridiculous, concluding “moral” choice which defies all logic. Now contrast this with the climax of “Gone, Baby, Gone” which is a conversation between two people where the outcome will alter many lives.

I guess what I’m trying to get at it that a conversation can be more interesting, more dangerous, more fraught with peril that any action sequence.

And while were on action sequences, I’ve come to regard most of them as little more than pornography.  Continue Reading »

Tomorrow is BarCamp LA, which is where I’m taking the wraps off of this project and The Good Captain. Busy with last minute preparations. Excited.

I hope you like what we’re cooking up for you.

What the heck are we up to here?  Here’s a mini-manifesto.

Here are some questions that are asked, frequently.

Want to jump straight to our first story?  Right this way, through the hypertext curtain.