I started this blog to have a place to put my writings with the hope it would encoruage me to write more, and so far it's succedded at getting me to edit something I'd already written it, and then have analytics on how many people didn't read it.
Honestly though, I know have a place I can point people when I say I'm a writer, and that's not nothing, technically I'm now a published author, in the sense that the button in the top right of the Blogger GUI says "Publish".
I like Walton's World, I think I said a lot in there that I wanted to say, and if I do say so myself, I think it's quite funny. I wrote it over a long weekend years ago based on the descriptions of a coworkers fever dream about a monkey being loose in a walmart overnight. I took a crack at writing the dream, but it morphed into something much more enjoyable for me to write. If I were to give it another crack, I'd want to expand it alot. There are tons of different departments and hazards to face, I had the idea of having a seperate area that is more of a traditional shopping mall layout with Waltons World being all of the anchor stores.
I also had an idea for a sequel to Waltons World where Allison and Patterson, now both working for the National Institute of Retail Science, find themselves in an office tower in a downtown area when a zombie outbreak occurs, and in order to survive the night, they must climb the 'corporate ladder' to get to rescue on the roof.
This got me thinking about the name Patterson, which is a name I'd used before in an unfinished, unpublished script for a series I wanted to film on the riverbed near my apartment in college. It was an ambitious script, and never got past the third episode, but it was significant for being some of the earliest work I can remember with the sort of dialouge I thoroughly enjoy writing. I decided to read it with my spouse, and we both enjoyed it. The first three episodes created a good base for the rest of the series, and I find myself thinking back to it from time to time, so I decided that's the next project, I'm going to finish that episodic...thing...from college.
One of the characters is named Patterson, but while the Patterson from Walton's World is a clean cut, niave, country boy, Patterson in this...thing... is a disguesting burnout with a gambling problem, authority issues, and a bad mouth. Really, if Patterson is how I saw myself coming into the midwest from Alaska, This Patterson is who I was in college, and in each case, dialed up to 11.
It's going to be interesting trying to write something that I haven't touched in eleven years, I'm not the person I was osstensibly writing about anymore. After my first crack at writing a new chapter, this Patterson already seems older, wiser, but dissapointed in a world that at one point I think he was willing to give everything to save. We'll see how it turns out.
Still need a name for it.
