Looking forward to April..Team Bj

...already...not just because it's my birthday month...but Team Billy has enlightened me to Script Frenzy. A month-long scramble to write a feature length script in the same vein as NaNoWriMo, which our own Team Billy successfully completed. Personally I like screenplays more. It's been forever since I attempted a straight up narrative book type of format, but I will with NaNo next year...but I have a few things I can see myself writing out to a full length feature, things I hope to actually get done. We shall see how it goes.

Closing the book on November -- A Team Billy post

Today is the last day of November, and the end of my NaNoWriMo adventure. I won (woo-hoo), crossing 50K on the 29th. That actually means I did the 50K in 28 days because I did take a day off in the middle of it all. While there is still plenty of story left to write, it's no longer the all-consuming center of my existence. That means I can actually have some fun again.

December should also bring some new Insourcing stuff, provided Bj can wrangle his talent. It's looking like that late-December/early-January release window has gone bye-bye.

The upside is that some cool lessons were learned. Tops among them is to make sure the "local" talent is actually local. Having to work shooting around the schedules of two people that are hardly ever in town is a bit of a momentum killer. The next project will hopefully not be limited as such.

But enough with that quasi-negativity. The next shoot should yield us enough footage to slap together some type of trailer just to prove something is being done. That and having Santa sneak an external hard drive under Bj's tree would make December a success in my book.

Team Bj can in fact still type

So I am waiting to be able to edit the 7 Alpha show...so it will be up later on for our four fans and our family members. I should edit it Wednesday night when we record, but alas I am tired as hell by the time day ends and I don't get to finish it. I'll try to make sure I get back to schedule and staying on it.

In other news on my end anyways...I am making some strides in the comic book area of Taurian projects in some upcoming work with Ben Tinsley and his company. Could prove quite fruitful. We shall see...

I will type more later, typing with the whole broke finger thing is not fun to do.

This is why we have guests -- A Team Billy post

Bj and I welcomed an old partner in crime to the podcast this week, one Miss Aprill Brandon. We put out an A show as solid as any we've done (available at http://taurianfilms.podomatic.com/), then went on to record one of the best podcasts ever. I'm not just talking about Bulls Deep, I'm talking about any that I listen too as well.

Bj and I went out of our way to load the B Show with as many "girly" things as possible, and the result was far more entertaining than we could have hoped for. Seriously folks, there is complete epic-ness headed your way on Monday. Our girl Aprill steps up and represents for all the ladies out there in a Bulls Deep battle of the sexes.

On the downside, Bj is still fighting the echo problem that has bugged us since last week. The problem has been identified. It's the internal mic on the laptop he's using. Shouldn't be a problem when we throw down 7A and 7B with FOP (Friend of the Pod) Kevin Miller. There is a way around the echo in 5A, 6A and 6B. Just crank your speaker balance to the left. Apparently the echo is only on the right channel.

NaWhatWhoMo? -- A team Billy post

I'm pretty much devoting myself to writing this month with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). If you listen to the podcast, you've heard me and the Beej talk about it. 50,000 words in 30 days. Snoogins.

I wasted no time in this endeavor, starting at straight up midnight on the 1st. I wrote for two hours, went to bed, then wrote for another two after my Texans beat the Buffalo out of the Bills. Total word count for Day 1: 4,328. Beefy.

The minimum pace to succeed is 1,667 words per day. I'm gunning for 1,700 words per week day and 2,000 words per day on the weekend. I want to get as far ahead as possible and stay there because Thanksgiving is a killer. I've only done NaNoWriMo once before and flamed out at 27,000 words.

I'll be making updates here on the blog and briefly mentioning it during the podcasts. With a little luck, I'll make this project call me daddy.