I love little low stress writing competitions. They've got themes, deadlines and a built in audience happy to critique your work. I mentioned a ways back I managed to write two shorts for Halloween and one turned out good enough to pursue as my latest Iclone project (its coming along. Slowly).
Now for a Christmas themes contest I managed another short. Its called SantAI and its based on the new chatgpt bot everybody's all atwitter over. Its kinda cute and kinda amusing and would likely be pretty easy to pull off as its a lot of dialog and not a lot of action. Its fine.
But while I was finishing that one up I had a different idea that tickles my fancy a lot more. Its essentially an old finished film noir set in the North Pole. It's played straight, with no giggles. I'm still trying to get the outline drafted so its not going to be my second submission. Its also likely to be a bit longer than my normal preference, likely in the 15-20 minute range. Not sure it will be any good or if it will get made but I'm enjoying the thought process on this one a good bit. Even created a few characters from my Daz resources in CC4 and drew up a couple of posters for your enjoyment (well, my enjoyment).
Its worth mentioning that I finally caught Kiss Me Deadly on TCM last month. I'd been wanting to see it for a while but it wasn't streaming anywhere and never played on TV. It was worth the wait. Badass, super misanthropic, apocalyptic Mike Hammer tale. Loved it. Worth watching if you get the chance.
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