"He Has Become Ood Kind, And We Will Take Care of Him"

^ ^ ^ THAT is an Ood, for the Doctor Who deficient.

Saturday, I, with my Ood ticket, entered the Doctor Who Convention at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff.

What can I say? Dreams come true.

I'm not going to get into details about the Convention (mainly because I spent the past two hours journaling about it).
Things I will say:

1) Being on the TARDIS set was one of the coolest experiences of my life.
2) Being on the TARDIS and at the Convention made me sure, more than ever, that I need to become a TV writer someday.
3) Karen Gillan has watched U.S. show Community and therefore has gained my esteem.
4) Arthur Darvill is adorable as Rory, but he is Hot as Arthur Darvill.
5) Matt Smith rocks some badass socks.
6) Steven Moffat is a self proclaimed git, but he's kind of a writing rock star, and I admire him immensely.
7) Getting to see a sneak peek at the season 7 trailer before everyone else is immensely satisfying.
8) I did not waste 99 pounds on the convention ticket, we got MEGA awesome swag bags.
9) Prosthetics=way cooler than I ever could have imagined.
10) Doctor Who is a show that has inspired many for nearly 50 years, and you can add my name to the 'many'.


This is me on the TARDIS

Finally Finally

As my friend Sarah recently noted, I am immensely negligent in keeping up with my blog.

That's because (along with a myriad of other reasons) I am writing a lot creatively.

Tonight, I started something that I've been putting off. My re-write of a re-write of a re-write for a TV show idea I've been toying with, I guess you can say, since I was 10 years old.
When I was ten, I didn't know it was a TV show. I thought it was a story. I wrote a few pages of something vastly different from what it has become now. I've written it at least 6 times since then, each time turning out, ok, but not what I wanted.
I had my epiphany my freshman year of college: it wasn't a story. That was the reason it had failed every time I'd tried to write it. It was a TV mini-series.

I've written the first pages of the pilot about 2-3 times now.
I don't want to commit because it's an idea I've nurtured all these years, and I love it more than human mothers love their children (I'd wager). I don't want to ruin my baby so that it grows to be a pot smoking, vapid, popular crowd, fluff script.

The book Essentials of Screenwriting by Richard Walter has helped me tentatively retry writing, now knowing more about script format that I previously have.

A frustrating aspect of writing it is that, in previous drafts, I have lines that I really like but cannot remember. When my stupid laptop died, I lost those drafts, which my kick-culo padre got back for me but are back home.

But now I've written something new, still sticking more or less to the same sequence of events. And I must decide if I like it more.

I'll probably just do what I've done in the past: put it away for three more months.



In other, non-writing related news
DOCTOR WHO CONVENTION THIS WEEKEND!!!

Yes. I am immensely excited. Like...WAY WAY EXCITED that the event I have been waiting for since last semester is almost here.

It seems almost crazy.
Just a year ago I was falling in love with the show, and now I'm about to see the writer, and stars!
And let's not forget (as if I could) the TARDIS set tour!!


I laugh and say, yes, I'm a nerd, when I tell people about how excited I am about it.
But is it even something to be embarrassed about? Think about it, Doctor Who was once somebody's baby. It got put out there nearly 50 years ago, and Literally generations have loved it.

Television (much like novels) provide an escape. They give us stories and characters to love and learn from in a fun, engaging way.

People might mistake shows like Doctor Who or Buffy the Vampire Slayer as silly shows about aliens, time travel, monsters and vampires, but these shows are successful because they're really not about those things. They give us messages about hope and strength and fighting for what's right and giving our enemies chances to be good. And yeah, sometimes they're just about badass, smart, witty dialogue penned at the hands of writing God's like Steven Moffat and Joss Whedon.

Inspirational pep talk aside, I'm saying, this show has something (the Doctor) that may be hard to define (the Doctor) that makes you care about it. So getting to go see the workings of not just a show, but the people and the industry that I'm so fascinated by (and hope to someday work in), is pretty damn awesome. And I am a nerd. And SUPER excited for my Doctor Who Convention weekend.

And all you nerd haters can suck it. =)