Andre HardenScreenwriter/Author, Story Consultant |
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My latest short story, The Curse of the Mummy has sold to Pseudopod.org and will be has been produced as a full length audio podcast, performed by Emily Smith.
You can download or listen to it here:
http://pseudopod.org/2013/05/17/pseudopod-334-the-curse-of-the-mummy/
updated: May 17, 2013
I was a guest a St. Mary’s school today providing a trio of workshops to grades 4/5, 6/7 and 8. I talked a bit about my work as a writer, then showed them what the story development process can look like by inviting them to work with me on creating a scene and a story together. The kids were a raging storm of engagement, always lots of hands in the air, ready to offer great ideas.
We were able to build a few scenarios including a romantic comedy about a girl with a backstage pass, who thought getting a great tan would lead to a hot date with rock star (this ended in disaster); a life and death attempt to rescue children in a drifting canoe from a treacherous river; and a quest into a potentially haunted house in order to find a rumored treasure that could save a family from some piled up debts.
Lots of fun and great to see such ready creativity. Also, somebody, or somebodies, made me the cool thank you card shown above.
Kicked off the course with a great bunch of students. Our scene workshop put us in a burning cathedral and tasked our character with getting out. We were able to explore a bunch of obstacles and good strategies for meeting them and ultimately faced our hero with a the discovery of another person trapped in the building, forcing them to make a critical moral decision — are they willing to risk their own life to carry this person to safety? We lacked the time to flesh out the full scope of the scene, but I think gained good awareness of how obstacles and the strategies chosen to overcome them, reveal and express who our characters are (becoming). Looking forward to next week.
“A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.”
Through the South Hill Community Association @ Riverview Collegiate.
Time: Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Jan 17 – Mar 21
See the class outline.
“The science of it, I think, looks fine.”
The CBC reports on the development of genetically modified mosquitoes. If approved by the FDA hundred of thousands of them will be unleashed in Florida with the expectation that the non-biting male mosquitoes will mate with female mosquitoes and, as a result of the genetic modification, the offspring will die before reaching maturity. The article is here.
Hopefully this works out better than it does for folks in my Night of the Mosquito story.
Jenkinson-Goode takes my award winning feature script, Numb to American Film Market.
Award winning producer, Ritchard Findlay, of Jakima Film has optioned my feature screenplay Paradise. The script is an adaptation of my play Attack of the Killer Zombies.