Feral Dream

Halfway to a manuscript

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:03:20 -0800

This month is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The challenge is to write 50,000 words during the month of Nov. I dove in immediately after the World Fantasy Convention. The great people I met at the convention must have inspired me bec...

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World Fantasy Convention

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:38:10 -0800

I went to the World Fantasy Convention this week at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. It was my first World Fantasy Convention and I have to say that it ranked as my favorite of the four SF/Fan conventions I've attended (2 WorldCons and Wiscon). ...

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Tooth Fairy part of TV Halloween Special!

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:53:49 -0700

I just got word that TOOTH FAIRY will be included in a 3 hour Halloween TV special produced by Dark Carnival Film Festival and HorrorHound Magazine! It will air on October 24 at 8pm (EST) on Time-Warner channel 991, which is a local independent ...

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Latest Distribution Model

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:21:31 -0700

Paranormal Activities (a film made for $10,000 that ran the festival circuit and eventually got picked up by Paramount) reached a million requests for it to open in people's towns. Paramount used Eventful to set up a website in which fans can ask...

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Standard symbols

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:24:06 -0700

Sonnyboo's website has free downloads of standard symbols like festival laurels, DVD symbol, FBI warnings, film ratings, etc. That's where I got my festival laurels for my Tooth Fairy website, but I had to process it to make it transparent. Susa...

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Tacoma Film Festival weekend

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:03:44 -0700

A couple of us from TOOTH FAIRY made it to the Tacoma Film Festival this past weekend. Although Tooth Fairy played in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, this was the first festival I attended. I picked it among the other festivals because they were...

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Hybrid Book/Film

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:42:21 -0700

A few weeks ago, the creator of CSI released a book on paper where every 20 pages or so, the reader can go to a website, put in a password, and see a video that supposedly enhances the story. I just watched the "trailer" for it, expecting it to b...

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$40k development deal open to submissions

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:52:45 -0700

Ion Television is looking for scripts in the area of "drama procedural." I've no idea what that means. For details, go here. Good luck! Susan Ee www.feraldream.com

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Photo vs Text

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:16:07 -0700

I learned the following things: JPEG = good for natural shapes like photos. PNG = good for sharp shapes like text. GIF = old format, avoid if possible Photoshop = good for photos, terrible for text Illustrator = good for text and graphics. Not s...

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TV 8 hrs a day, 7 days a week

nobody@vox.com(Susan Ee) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:42:35 -0700

The Economist reports that Americans are still watching TV for an average of over 8 hours PER DAY. Watching TV is like a full time job for us. This is the number I've heard over the years and it looks like it hasn't gone down despite the popular...

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