Herc-o-meter: Scenes and Research

Today’s work so far.

Writing the first draft of a Tim and Bianca scene writing to Dr. Livy. It’s also a sweet scene where Tim asks Bianca out in spite of her youthful insecurities.

Writing the first draft of Tony encounters Marshall again. It’s a really playful exchange with Tony and his friends at lunch about how to handle the bully. When I was writing this scene, I think I figured out Nate’s character and Alex’s characters, so I went back and changed Alex to Nate in the spitball scene. Alex is the tae kwon do confident Korean kid. Nate is the kid who exacerbates bully trouble. George is the goofy offbeat kid. Mike is the amiable nerd. Got it.

Writing the first draft of Nonna talking to Livy about Leo. Discovered that Leo doesn’t necessarily understand that he’s Hercules. That changes a lot, so I need to re-envision the next parts of the draft.

Spent some time reading up on wrestling maneuvers to revise the El Toro scene .

ETA: Couldn’t quite manage the revision of El Toro’s match. I need to let that sit. Information has been modified accordingly, and I’ll start there next session, adding in Tony and Bianca to the audience, and labeling the wrestling commentary.

23 / 44 (52.3%)

And if you’re curious about word count,

40,876 / 45,000 (90.8%)

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Short Story Two

I’ve taken a look through the old stock. While there are some interesting characters that can be salvaged in there, most of it is dreck you guys don’t get to see. BECAUSE IT WOULD BLIND YOU!!!

That said, there are two short stories in there I’m willing to revise and send around.

Two Vampires and a Panel Discussion: A B-movie actor and vampire killer takes a trip to Vampire Con with his trigger happy sidekick to visit his fans and bask in former glory. Unfortunately, real vampires decide to take advantage of his appearance.

Jackal’s First Hunter: The younger brother of a secret agent accidentally gets involved in one of her missions.

Both of these still work pretty well, miracle of miracles.

Just for fun, this should give you an idea of the first story.

***

“Watch this scene,” said Reginald Rath. Mark Maxwell took another swig of his Miller and eyed the screen. A younger Rath, back in the days when he only had to dye part of his hair to keep out the gray, opened a coffin, pulled out a sharpened table leg and a mallet, and pounded the leg deliberately into an undead chest. Blood splattered on the vampire hunter’s face, but Rath only squinted briefly and continued to pound, undaunted.

“The first take of that scene,” said Reginald to Mark enthusiastically, “the fake blood shot into my eye. Took us three days to shoot that scene.”

Mark burped. “No foolin’?”

“That’s not the longest it ever took us to film a scene. In I Was a Vampire Czar Lee Christopher had this scene with a horse and some borscht that—“

***

And so it goes. I’ll probably be working on this when I need a break from Hulk Hercules.

I’m out of here. My elbow is shot, and so I’ll spend the rest of the night doing…something else.

Catherine

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