3/22/11 Jack Fargone

Jack Fargone reworking

Jack Fargone always wanted to live an extraordinary life. Unfortunately he was born on Earth in the early twenty-first century and little would happen. That is until the IDIOTS fleet came into his 9-planet system and destroyed it. The fleet needed fuel to get to their next destination and they converted every planet into said fuel. Fortunately for Jack and 87 other people were rescued. Why he was chosen was just luck. There were 7 billion people on the planet and the IDIOTS chose 87 healthy individuals. It could have been any 87 people with good health but he was one of them and it would change his life and the lives of the other survivors forever.

3/6/11 too much writing

so you are just going to have to trust me when I tell you I did write on the 6th but it was all for class. I worked on my script for film writing. It is Jack and the IDIOTS. Here is a snippet from it.

INT. GREAT HALL
The Great Hall bustles with excitement. Row after row of bleacher line the walls up to the ceilings. The room drums with anticipation as the middle of the hall is suddenly illuminated with realistic holograms. Three aliens stand in the middle of the room on the stage area.
One alien is a big four armed, four legged cat like creature. His body is covered in tattoos and markings. He growls and slams his fists against his bare muscular chest.
The alien across from the cat like alien is a blob of a creature. It whips tendrils and globs of goo out.
Jack and Huan take a break from cheering and look at each other. They both shrug.
JACK
Kick it’s amorphous ass!
HUAN
Turn that kitty into litter!
They watch as the referee alien moves between the waiting fighters. The Referee is very boring. He looks like a purple human with tall rabbit ears.
REFEREE
Ladies and Gentlemen and those in between, are you ready for Universal Fighters Competition to begin?
The crowded room erupts in cheers.
REFEREE
I can’t hear you!
The referee cups a hand to his ear.
REFEREE
I can’t hear you!
The crowd erupts louder.
REFEREE
In the red corner we have five time UFC champion and reigning Universal fighter belt holder, Yinlu of the Diion system.
The cat fighter jumps up and down. The crowd goes crazy for him.
REFEREE
In the blue corner we have Epsilon Chi Tau Omega of the . . . some where in space.
The crowd doesn’t go nearly as crazy as for Yinlu.
REFEREE
Okay. Let’s get it on!
The referee signals for both the fighters to come to the center of the stage.
REFEREE
Okay, this is going to be a clean fight. No cheap shots, sucker punches or disintegrations. Are you ready?
The cat-like fighter nods. The blob still whips his tendrils around.
REFEREE
Ready! Fight!
The referee backs away in a quick leap.
The cat fighter takes a defensive martial arts stance. He prepares for whatever the blob is prepared to throw.
The blob continues to flail its slimy tendrils around. The crowd yells for blood.
In a flash the blob completely covers the cat fighter. In a mess of blood and melted flesh and bone the cat fighter is dissolved inside the blob.
The crowd falls silent.
The blob expels the UFC champion belt. It clanks on the floor of the Great Hall.
The crowd goes freaking crazy.
REFEREE
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the winner: Epsilon Chi Tau Omega!
Jack and Huan stand stunned.

2/15/11 Ugh, busy day of writing

Today was one of those days. I spent all day preparing an outline for a script writing class only to get to class and totally have it fall apart in the second act. Not literally fall apart and scatter everywhere but just have no action in the second act. Ugh, it was horrible. I wasn't feeling it at all and I would totally scrap the whole thing if we weren't so far into the process. The suggestions the professor gave though were really good dsand I think if I can add them into the screenplay in the second act it will really liven it up.

I knew this was going to happen this semester. I have a ton of writing and editing I have to do and so little time. I need to start focusing and working throughout the week but it always seems like there isn't enough week to do anything.

I started to read Path to Fury by David Weber for a class and I like the first chapter. It has a deeper setting and more description than Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I like a book that that when you put it down you think: "I will never live in a world like this" and you have to decompress from it for a second. I didn't get that with Ender's, perhaps later in the series you do. Won't find out until later though cause right now all I'm reading are books for class. But I guess I'm lucky though cause those books for class are not really all that bad.

Next semester though will be dedicated to one class so this semester is preparing me for Novel writing.

But I did write some creative stuff today so don't worry, I didn't waste the day. I just felt this type of entry was needed. Here is a snippet of what I wrote today.

Jack then sees Pascal and Jean. They don’t see him and he follows them. They have found a docking bay where small ships sit unguarded. Jean, the smarter of the two, goes into one of the ships and comes back out. Jack overhears him say they can take it and leave. They see Jack and he runs from them. They pursue him and the three run through the corridors. Jack comes to a door that has a keypad next to it and he begins punching in a bunch of different number sequences. The French twins come around the corner and see they have him trapped. A light above the door turns green and the door opens. A bright shimmering force field is on the other side and when Jack runs into to it without looking he disappears and the door closes before the twins can get to it.

2/14/11 Deanionionasad

Earth has been destroyed and Jack and Huan watch as it is being sucked up into a giant hand vacuum to make fuel for the IDIOTS fleet.

The alien leads Jack and Huan through corridors. They see other humans being met by various aliens. Some of the humans are reacting less than civil. The alien introduces himself as DEANIONIONASAD but they can him Dean. He tells them they are on a ship orbiting what is left of Earth. Jack and Huan stop walking. Jack asks if he heard him right. Dean sighs and tells them to follow him. Dean takes the two to a large window overlooking a fleet of ships surrounding a debris field that is being sucked into another ship that looks like a hand vacuum. Ships pull are pulling up to the ‘handle’ of the hand vacuum ship and refueling.

2/8/11 Then Planet Earth Exploded

This is the first part of the earth being destroyed story.

Planet Earth explodes. A narrator tells us not to worry though 87 people survived. As well as one of each animal and this is the story of one of those people and his journey to find a new home. The earth exploding rewinds and we zoom into a suburb of Chicago.

Jack Fargone is buying a small engagement ring. The salesman asks how long Jack has been with his girlfriend and Jack tells him they are broken up right now but she will have to take him back. The clerk tells him that never works and Jack tells him he didn’t ask.

Jack leaves the store. Goes to work and tells his friends at work what he’s planning on doing. They all look at him like he is crazy.

Jack leaves work that night and stops by his parents to tell them. They don’t think it is a good idea.

Jack leaves his parents still thinking he will be successful in getting his girlfriend back.

He is on his way to his ex’s apartment when he sees her with another guy. He acts as if he didn’t see it and goes back to his apartment.

He lies down on his bed and falls asleep.

1/25/11: Jack Fargone and Otto

Jack is the protaganist for a series I would like to write. He seeks advice from a whale named Otto and here is a little bit of that.

Jack Fargone stood watching the blue water on the other side of the protective barrier. He stared deeply into the cyan abyss that existed filled the large window before him.

As he watched the light filter through the water his mind wandered to his left jean pocket. Inside his pocket he was thumbing a ring around his index finger. An engagement ring meant for someone who didn’t actually want it and now will never get it.

“Thinking about Regina, again?” The voice was slow and smooth.

“Yea, Otto,” Jack answered. He continued to stare into the aquarium.

“Can’t help but think if she were here she would have liked all this craziness even more than me.”

“I am sure she would have also,” The voice grows a little louder as a large whale swims across the window into the aquarium.

1/24/11: Jack Fargone

This is a character for my film script writing class.

As one of 87 people who survived the destruction of planet Earth, Jack Fargone has to find a place where he belongs with the help of a talking dog and a humpback whale named Otto.

Character Spines:

1. How does your character like his eggs in the morning?

Jack likes his eggs over easy. A runny yolk that makes a mess he can sop up with toast saturated in butter, not margarine but real butter. He also likes hash browns that are slightly crispy and help to absorb some of the yolk.

2. How does your character’s chronological order of his surname affect his behavior?

Jack was always somewhere at the beginning so whenever he had to answer questions or do stuff in class he had to think quickly on his feet.

3. What did your character ask for on his 18^th birthday?

Jack asked for a new bike. His last one was stolen when he turned 16 and he didn’t have enough to get a new one. He lives in Chicago and rides the bus or EL Train everywhere and his parents don’t have cars either.

4. Your character sees a turtle struggling on its back in the desert, what does he do?

Jack would turn the turtle back upright and then follow him to see where he goes. If he saw the turtle encounter any further dangers he would help the turtle out.

5. What is your characters favorite type of music?

He will listen to pretty much anything that is mainstream. He isn’t a music snob but if it is really popular he usually won’t listen to it unless it is really good.

6. Has your character had a significant other and are they still together?

Yes he had a girlfriend and no they are not together at the beginning of the story. She broke up with him because he wasn’t doing anything with his life. He accepted the assistant manager position at the video store and was planning on buy a ring to propose to her but then the world was destroyed. He thought it would show he was serious.

7. If your character saw an old lady get mugged what would he do?

Jack would run after the thief. He is all about helping those less fortunate and it tends to get him in trouble.

8. How many languages does your character speak?

Jack speaks one language, English. He took Spanish in high school but retains none of it.

1/18/11: Jack is a simple man

Jack is a simple man. He worked in a video store peddling the latest rentals out to a dying breed of people. He didn’t have a girlfriend but had a crush on the waitress at the local bar he and his three friends hung out at after work. He was on his way to the bar that evening when the IDIOTS ship picked him from the surface of the planet along with 87 other humans and an array of animals. He had intended on telling the waitress he would like to go out on a date but then the IDIOTS got in the way. So now he is one of 87 humans an alien fleet that’s soul purpose to relocate people around the galaxy.