We’ve got a new show! You should check it out. It’s a talk show with Bob (aka John, or Quincy) and I (aka Chuck, or the guy who thought this whole mess up) talking about geeky topics in the news, and video games, movies, and tv shows we watch. We don’t swear a lot, but when we do swear we don’t edit it out. Just so you are forewarned.
Attached to this show is the promo. If it sounds like something you’d like to hear give it a try at weekly.pulpaudio.com
Okay, the script was never lost, but the episode was.
I have gotten far enough into my writing to make it VERY apparent that I need not keep this a secret any longer: I’m rewriting the first two episodes of The Log Of The Crimson Lien as stories. I’ve already finished (first draft) Too Good To Be True which, for the most part, parallels the events in the episode you listened to way back in 2007. Wow. Was it really 2007?
I am probably halfway through the rewrite of Salvage, which I have renamed to The Relic. I did not want to release this final script, so as to maintain some surprise at the ending when you finally got the chance to read (or listen to from Podiobooks) the story in what I consider to be a much superior form.
However, unlike the first story this second story is diverging greatly from what you heard (and didn’t hear) on the podcast. It is so different - in fact - that I have no fears whatsoever of your enjoyment of the story being spoiled by reading the original script.
So, after the cut, you will find the working script we used when recording the doomed 3rd (and final) episode of Salvage, which was the second (and final - for now) Crimson Lien story.
I’ve been updating the Crimson Lien Wiki for a while now, and while it’s still got a long way to go (look at all those red links!) I think it’s far enough along to announce to the world.
…so I guess I just did 
(If you notice anything blatantly wrong, feel free to edit it. It is a wiki after all. However, don’t “correct” any actual factual information about the story as that information may have changed now that I’m doing the books)
I have, in my hot little hands (Well, on my hot little hard drive, at least) a completed first draft of a Crimson Lien story.
This story is written in prose, not as a script. I was about halfway done with it a week ago, and I wrote the other half over the past week as my first goal in this year’s National Novel Writing Month.
It’s not long enough to be a novel, but it’s too long to be a short story. It falls somewhere in the novella range. As it’s a first draft, I will not be releasing this story just yet. But it will be released eventually. I am sticking as closely as I can to my promise to never give a time line for anything, so I won’t say when I expect it to be complete. I can tell you, though, that it will NOT be complete this month.
“Why?” you ask? Because it’s National Novel Writing Month. While I finished this story, I have another waiting to go and I’m still 40,000 words or so away from the 50,000 required to win. I’m hoping to get the second story completely written so when it comes time to edit, I can get both stories edited and out at the same time.
Isn’t that nice of me?
While I have your attention, I’d like to bring up something very important to me, and even more important to Bob, the voice of John and Quincy (and many more). That topic is Breast Cancer. Bob’s mother died this year, and what killed her started as breast cancer.
Every year (Well, last year and this year, but we plan on doing this into perpetuity) we participate in How Not To Grow A Beard Month, where a group of unshaven men parade their unmanly peach fuzz, spotty growth, and neck stubble for fun and … well fun, really. Starting this year, though, we are taking donations. Every single PENNY of your donations will go to funding breast cancer research. Not the site. Not to pay for the domain name. Not even for the Paypal fees (Up to a certain amount. We’re not rich, but we’ll try to cover them all ourselves. Guaranteed we’ll cover the fees on the first $2000 donated).
In addition to supporting this extremely worthwhile research, you can have the fun of sponsoring a beard. The person who gets the most donations wins a Fabulous Prize and while i don’t expect I’ll win, I’d like to make a showing. I’m “Wesley” on the site.
Plus, sponsoring my beard will make me happy, and when I’m happy I write faster.
So, if you are able and willing, please check out the How Not To Grow A Beard Month donation page and at LEAST gawk at the manliness. And when you’re done with that, donate a little. It’s going to a wonderful cause: My ego.
I mean breast cancer research. That too.
I mean ONLY breast cancer research. Yeah.
Can you believe it? I put something in the feed! Below you will find a rough first draft of a script that was never completed, but would have likely ended up as episode 2.3 or 2.4. It has some problems (John’s still working for Galactic Express; Bill doesn’t exist; It feels kind of short and could possibly use a “B” story line) but I like it.
The storyline was inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” one of the more fun plays written by Shakespeare. The title was inspired by “Kiss Me, Kate,” one of the more fun plays not written by Shakespeare. I have no idea why I merged them together but hey, that’s the way it works sometimes.
Enjoy
My first post in almost a year, and it’s to announce that I got hacked, and had to rebuild the website nearly from scratch.
The good news is that Wordpress is updated to the newest version.
The bad news is, still nothing new (Though I am writing, so don’t give up on me just yet)
I should just post when a show is on time, announcing it as an “early release”
I said I’d do my best to get the show out in February, but that’s not going to happen. A very busy month all around and, I won’t point the fingers at anybody but I’m going on vacation this week and won’t be back until March, at which time our final actor’s lines will be read and I will kick post-production into high gear.
No promises, but I’m shooting to release 2 shows in March to get back on track.
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Sorry that the latest Crimson Lien episode isn’t in the feed, but Podpress has decided that it shouldn’t be and I’ve been up for 24 hours straight. I’m going to sleep. If you want the file, you’ll have to come to the website to get it.
Eventually it’ll be in the feed. But not this morning.
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