Even More Pictures

Probably blogging too much. I know, how is that possible? Because I'm always looking forward to what my favourite blogs have to say. But I was reading that too much posting can confuse people, and turn them off. Still, I only get about 14-25 hits a day, so I don't know if it will go down a lot.

Quite amazed to hear, last night, from a poetry editor, that poets published in books don't own copyright to their work for ten years. So they can't put up what they write in their blogs without asking for elaborate permissions, or else getting into trouble. And that's why there's not a ton of exciting poetry on the web, at least that I've found, after a not too diligent search.

I don't know if the above is true actually. I'll have to ask my poetry editor friend. Sorry I don't have a link to the above editor's site. She's getting lots more hits than I am, but she's done promotion. Not just putting something up, and seeing who comes, and sometimes commenting on other's blogs, and getting a link that way. (that's what I'm doing, and I'm not methodical about it).

Really, I was going to write about how in a way dismaying it is that I'm not drawing exciting, dramatic or funny pictures all the time. The above, which I scratched this morning while listening to the CBC (a mystery writer, former CBC person who's a recovering alcoholic - so those nice lady CBC freelancers have secret vices!), is a scene out of my head, set in the editing room.

That's really my favorite place to be when helping make TV. Lots of possibility for creating. At the moment, I'm writing scripts, which is being creative in that way. The next step, of course, is shooting, where you can either get everything, or run into problems. The script is the guideline for this, where the story is captured in the visual ('real') world. The editing is where the program takes shape, where a lot of the real creativity happens.

Making a show is teamwork. The researcher hands material off to me. I make the story. The story is shot by the director, the director goes into the suite, with the editor. Been lucky to have been involved in a lot of these areas, even trying my hand at editing, during the Lord of the Rings Concert project.

Of course, there are lots of other people involved in the current Discovery Channel project. Producers, people who make phone calls, so that things to shoot or animation will be where it's supposed to be. A lot of hands. I'm really interested to see what the final, final project will look like, and what resemblance these episodes will have to the scripts I wrote, oh, maybe a lifetime ago.