The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 3 – The First Step
A quick update from the currently in-progress fanfic project that picks up where season 2 of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles left off.
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The Connor Wars F0301 – “A Thousand Miles”
Here is the first installment of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles fanfic that picks up where the second season finale left off. I was so enthusiastic about the possibilities presented when the season ended that I just had to keep it going regardless of what happens with the suits at FOX.
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R-S-Ay-yi-yi
One of the downsides of me living by the keyboard is the fact that sometimes I die by the keyboard. By this I mean: sometimes I’m at the keyboard so long, and so often, that my body starts to say, “Stop being at the keyboard, you idiot!” Yep, that tired old bugaboo — RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury).
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Will Ayla’s Adventure Ever Conclude?
I’ve been a long-time fan of Jean M. Auel’s Earth Children series of books: The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980); The Valley of Horses (1982); The Mammoth Hunters (1985); The Plains of Passages (1990); and The Shelters of Stone (2002). As this was supposed to be a hexalogy, and we currently only have five published titles, the question many fans have been asking is: “When will the 6th book be coming out?”
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The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 2 – An Update and Some Early Spoilers
A quick update and a few spoilers from the currently in-progress fanfic project that picks up where season 2 of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles left off.
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When Do You Quit?
When the going gets tough, when times get hard, when you are rejected…is that when you quit? Well, do I have a blog that you should read.
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The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 1 – Intro & Bible
The Terminator-The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 2 finale has left me fired up. I’m giddy. As long as I have my giddy up and no new episodes are airing, I thought it’d be fun to set up a writer’s room of our own. For every journey, there is a first step.
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Why I Write
Following my post, TTSCC Scenes I’d Like to See (Part 5) – Veritas, I received an email from a casual lurker (their words) asking why do I post these scenes? Did I expect to be “discovered” or something?
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TTSCC Scenes I’d Like to See (Part 5) – Veritas
In the season 2 episode, “Ourselves Alone”, John has a confrontation with Riley. John gives Riley one last opportunity to confess her secrets to him. This scene is the result of asking what if Sarah hadn’t broken the mood John had set up? What if Riley actually abandoned the lies?
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TTSCC Scenes I’d Like to See (Part 4) – Promise
This time I wanted to write something a little more complex than what I’d done before. I didn’t want to write a full episode. The main push of this was wanting to explore how in the world Cameron managed to worm her way into being John’s ally.
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Therefore I Blog – A Lot
I got an email from a relatively new subscriber who said that she noticed that my byline was on every article. She wondered if I’d actually written everything or if I was just taking the credit. The story?
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Things That Have Made Me Happy
Once you’ve lived long enough, and have a lot of memories in the ol’ grouch bag, it’s hard not to pause every now and then to consider that unique collection that adds up to your life. Like you, I have a variety of event-mementos good, bad, and hard to define. Mostly, though, I prefer to pull out those things that still make me smile.
Read more...Building Terminator – My Plan For Season 2 (Part 2 of 2)
Continuing from Part 1, we look at how we might develop the important threads that will keep the season 2 storytelling of TTSCC tight.
Read more...Building Terminator – My Plan For Season 2 (Part 1)
Based on the number of comments being made in the various fora during the two-month break between the mid-season finale and the start of the back-9 episodes of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I thought it would be a fun little exercise to see how I’d have developed the 2nd season.
Read more...TTSCC – Still Staying the Course
TTSCC finds itself in a place that a lot of scifi shows end up in their second season: producers not delivering on fan expectations. Fans have a funny way of developing their own ideas about a series. I’d like to use these opinions as a sort of jumping off point for discussion.
Read more...Building Terminator – A Plan For Future Life
I’ve noticed (and been a participant in) some discussions on various fan boards concerning the stories of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I’d like to discuss some of what’s gone wrong, what’s gone right, and what can be done to ensure a successful run.
Read more...I Used to Review the TV Show, Enterprise
I was a reviewer of a TV show for the better part of two seasons. This is how it happened.
Read more...A Beginner’s Guide to Time Travel
Time travel can be a very confusing aspect of many stories told on TV, movies, or in print. Paradoxes confound and befuddle. This article might help to explain some of it, or it might just make the confusion worse. Hopefully, it is more of the former.
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