I'd be interested to chat to you through this thread about the process of how you conceived and wrote your winning stories...
Mine was the 3rd prize entry (no prize yet forthcoming, I might add) but did a lot of research via the net and the various Indy literature to check my chronology was right!
Anyway, hope this isn't too boring a topic to start for everyone - at the very least, I'd be interested to know if the other winners have heard anything about when the prizes might be sent...
BID,
My story never won anything. But I would be very interested in discussing the conception and writing of an Indiana Jones story....or any story. I am very interested in writing.
I'm working on a sci-fi flick... a post-apocalyptic piece.
Here's an idea inspired by a favorite episode of the Twilight Zone where a guy gets locked in a bank vault and when he emerges the next day (time locks) he finds a world blown to nuclear Hell. He is the only survivor. . . .
In my film a somewhat reclusive and an increasingly eccentric studio head locks himself in his personal Panic Room in his posh new San Francisco compound because he has learned that an odd (but gifted) fan has traveled across country to stalk him for news of a long awaited sequel. During confinement the studio head has what Quentin Tarantino might call a 'moment of clarity' and the whole story falls into perfect place. The studio head joyously opens the door to his confinement to find devastation -- evidently the stalker has re-created the rocket launchers seen in the movie the Rock and launched the nerve-gas laden rockets over the Bay Area to lethal effect. As an added bonus, the young stalker over-estimates the effect of the Nerve Agent and succeeds in killing all life on the planet.
. . . . sorry for the diversion, I think I've posted in the wrong thread in the wrong section.
Here's an idea inspired by a favorite episode of the Twilight Zone where a guy gets locked in a bank vault and when he emerges the next day (time locks) he finds a world blown to nuclear Hell. He is the only survivor. . . .
I think know this episode. Burgess Meredith is the guy, right? Only wants time to read?
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. . . . sorry for the diversion, I think I've posted in the wrong thread in the wrong section.
I think know this episode. Burgess Meredith is the guy, right? Only wants time to read?
I think you're right -- he was great in the role. Do you remember the ending of the episode? I have a twist on the original ending. Alone in the world, the studio head goes forward -- living off food scavenged from vending machines and using an old Honda generator -- and makes the movie all by himself, using footage of his former leading man to create a (near) perfect CGI facsimile. The studio head labors for years making his masterpiece. Then on one fateful day, near exhaustion, he staggers into his screening room to watch the film on the only prototype digitial projector left in existence. He flips the switch. Nothing. He becomes agitated and beats on the machine until he knocks it over, breaking the lens. With houls of anguish he leave the projection room where he sees that he failed to plug an extension cord from the projector into the generator. Tear flow from his eyes -- and as we fade to black we hear him mutter something enigmatic, something that sounds a lot like 'Jar Jar'. . . . .
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C'mon Joe, leave Intergamer alone.
All in good fun. I have the greatest respect for Intergamer. He's smart as a whip, with a good sense of humor.
Here's an idea inspired by a favorite episode of the Twilight Zone where a guy gets locked in a bank vault and when he emerges the next day (time locks) he finds a world blown to nuclear Hell. He is the only survivor. . . .
In my film a somewhat reclusive and an increasingly eccentric studio head locks himself in his personal Panic Room in his posh new San Francisco compound because he has learned that an odd (but gifted) fan has traveled across country to stalk him for news of a long awaited sequel. During confinement the studio head has what Quentin Tarantino might call a 'moment of clarity' and the whole story falls into perfect place. The studio head joyously opens the door to his confinement to find devastation -- evidently the stalker has re-created the rocket launchers seen in the movie the Rock and launched the nerve-gas laden rockets over the Bay Area to lethal effect. As an added bonus, the young stalker over-estimates the effect of the Nerve Agent and succeeds in killing all life on the planet.
. . . . sorry for the diversion, I think I've posted in the wrong thread in the wrong section.
I was always a bigger fan of the Twlight Zone where the guy is alone with his books and breaks his glasses . . .must have been a slow season to repeat so much! San Francisco you say . . .
I was always a bigger fan of the Twlight Zone where the guy is alone with his books and breaks his glasses . . .must have been a slow season to repeat so much! San Francisco you say . . .
Getting slightly off topic of late here I think, (but that's OK - all comments welcome!)
Basically, when starting to write Indy and the Quest of The WhiteKnight, I knew I wanted to set it after the latest we'd seen Harrison Ford play the character (in the Young Indy ep - Mystery of the Blues), but I also wanted to acknowledge the fact that Denholm Eliot had died in real life and that realistically Marcus Brody could never appear on screen again - so I came up with the idea of Brody dying or his funeral opening the story - then, since I'm a huge fan of the Young Indy stories, I knew I wanted to include a flashback to Indy's youth, and so tied the funeral (Indy's last meeting with Brody) to the very first time the two met (as far as I'm aware, this has never been mentioned or portrayed in ANY official literature so far...)
Anyway, after that, I trawled the RaiderNet timeline and others on the net for Indy and double and triplechecked I wasn't contradicting any other established details of the Indy canon with events in my story. In fact, a lot of the things that happen in my story actually reference the other Indy literature out there (Old Man Waltz's brother appeared in a comic strip of Young Indy in the 90s in the UK's Young Telegraph and also Marcus's mention of a planned trip to Egypt with Indy in 1913 is from the book "Young Indy and the Tomb of Terror").
Anywyay, the link to my story is in the first post of this thread above...
It's shameless, I know, but I like to reference my own stories whenever I can within a new story and on another thread elsewhere on the Raven I've started a fan fic collaborative story which everyone is welcome to contribute to...
Anyway, the tenuous link to this thread is that I've added a new paragraph today that makes mention of my 3rd place story in TheRaider Fan Fic Contest of last year...
Here's the link to the shared story going on right now:
