New Metasaurs episode on the way?

I've been using my holiday to record the dialog for the new Metasaurs episode. I'm planning to shoot the video portion later on this week, and maybe edit it all together this weekend. This one is going to be a little tricky for a couple of reasons so it might take me a little longer than that.

Anyways, look for episode two sometime in the next couple of weeks. In cased you missed it, click here for episode one. And subscribe to my channel so you won't miss any updates.

I was maybe two-thirds of the way through a first draft of a comedy screenplay when the Queen of England screwed me over.

A big plot point of my story was a couple issued an invitation to their wedding to Queen Elizabeth via social media and she accepted. Problem is, she actually did that recently, in real life. Which completely kills my entire story. To add insult to injury, the author of the article I read about it used a lot of the same gags I was going to use.

Oh, well. I liked the characters and the setting. Maybe I'll come up with something else that I can use them in.

In the mean time I'm working on a drama I'm calling The Shadow of The Talon, about a journalist who is trying to discover the secret identify of a costumed vigilante (who calls himself The Talon, hence the title). It'll deal with some themes I've always found interesting, about the need for myths and legends in human society. Read Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces to get an idea where I'm coming from with this.

Plus I'm resurrecting my story for The Harvester of Faces. I've had some ideas recently that make that project attractive to me again, though I still have the problem I had before--the back story was far too complicated. Maybe I can figure out a way to simplify it enough to make it writable, finally. That story deals with a lot of the same themes as The Shadow of The Talon, but with a decidedly darker overall take on them. It'll be more horror/science fiction, whereas Talon is more straight drama.

Anyway, that's what I've been doing over the past little while. I'll post an update when the new Metasaurs episode is up.