by G.L. Breedon | Apr 3, 2012 | Fantasy, Film, Science Fiction, TV, Writing-Craft
Yesterday I was listening to a podcast about last weeks crop of sci-fi and fantasy by Darren Franich and Jeff Jensen and one of them mentioned in passing that George R.R. Martin hated the ending of Lost. I hadn’t heard that before, so I did a little poking around and...
by G.L. Breedon | Mar 27, 2012 | Ideas, Metamedia, Uncategorized
A month ago or so, I had dinner with a friend who is a serious digital media geek so I could pick his brain about an idea I’ve been toying with for the past decade that I call metamedia. Metamedia is simply my name for fused media storytelling. Back when I was on a...
by G.L. Breedon | Mar 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
(Image from: EnlightenNext Magazine) Back in 2003, after I had finished writing the script for Dark September Rain I wrote some short notes on how to take Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and apply it to theatre. The plan had been to stage Dark September Rain as a play...
by G.L. Breedon | Mar 12, 2012 | Writing-Craft
I’ve been thinking lately about heroes – what makes a hero we want to root for, what characteristics does a hero need to have so that we will want to empathize him or her, and better yet, how do you create a hero that people not only want to watch...
by G.L. Breedon | Feb 28, 2012 | Film, Science Fiction
The day job has been keeping me far too busy lately. I have a bit of breather today, but no time to write a substantial post, so I thought I’d dip into the archives and post an excerpt from a sci-fi screen play I wrote years ago called Unexplained...
by G.L. Breedon | Feb 16, 2012 | Fantasy, Wizard of Time, Writing-Craft
A few weeks ago I came across Brandon Sanderson’s First and Second Laws (of magic) at his blog and they sparked a great deal of thinking. The two laws are: Sanderson’s First Law of Magics: An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY...
by G.L. Breedon | Feb 8, 2012 | Art, Future, Future History, Retro-Nostalgia, Science Fiction
I came across this film in progress called Man Conquers Space on the Sci-Fi Movie Facebook page. It’s an amazing retro-future history documentary of a space program that never existed, but that every space geek dreamed of in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Since I grew up...
by G.L. Breedon | Jan 31, 2012 | Fantasy, Philosophy, Science, Science Fiction
Last week there was a great interview in The Atlantic with Professor Tim Maudlin, who teaches the philosophy of physics at New York University. It’s a really interesting interview and it got me to thinking a number of things all at once. The first thing it brought...
by G.L. Breedon | Jan 25, 2012 | Art, Retro-Nostalgia, Science Fiction
I need to post a blog, but I’m a bit pressed for time working on Wizard of Time #2 (still no title), so as a placeholder until I can come up with something interesting, I figured I’d post a collage of my favorite sci-fi film posters. These aren’t my...
by G.L. Breedon | Jan 18, 2012 | History, Science, Science Fiction
A few days ago I was looking through my old computer files for the stage play version of a screen play I wrote back in the 90s. I couldn’t find the play (seems it is lost on some 3.5” floppy disk), but I did come across something I had written in 1996 that seemed like...
