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Tag: scriptwriting

Scripted… Now, About the Angle?

The ether is off somewhere feasting on the original version of this post, which was longer than this one will be. I won’t complain about it, since this very rarely happens to me, and the software I’m using is free, but it does explain why I’m being so terse in this post. (I’m going to […]

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September 7, 2012March 18, 2013 gordsellarNo Comments

The Music of Jo Hyeja: Accepted, World Premiere Upcoming!

So, I announced this news on Twitter and Facebook a little over a week ago, but didn’t get around to announcing it here. Our short film “The Music of Jo Hyeja” has been accepted for the Los Angeles HP Lovecraft Film Festival. It will be the film’s World Premiere, and as a Lovecraftian movie, it’s […]

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September 3, 2012September 3, 2012 gordsellarNo Comments

The Music of Jo Hyeja is a Go…

This entry is part 2 of 15 in the series Making "The Music of Jo Hyeja"

Well, I claimed that I got a lot less done this past summer in terms of my writing than I’d hoped — since I’d been hoping to draft a novel — but in fact, I did pull off something in my writing that I’m very pleased with: a script for a short Korean film adaptation […]

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August 31, 2011October 19, 2013 gordsellar3 Comments

HP Lovecraft and the (Monkey) Puzzle of the “Good Lovecraftian Film”

I was talking with my friend Chris about a bunch of SF- (and, to a lesser degree, fantasy-) -related things the other day — one of those discussions where you are trying to get at the heart of how we read genre and why, reader/viewer expectations for genre texts and media, and so on. One […]

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May 10, 2011October 4, 2011 gordsellar22 Comments

My Korean Drama

Just a couple of posts ago I bragged about the Korean play I wrote, and which the teachers performed at camp the other day. Well, for those interested, here is the file. And I’ve written more about the play and how/why it was put together, over at the collective Let’s Learn Korean blog. UPDATE, 4th […]

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August 20, 2005February 1, 2012 gordsellarNo Comments

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RECENT/UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.

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My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available for €4.25, over at the publisher's website.

My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.

Available on Amazon.com, or, in Seoul, from the Fiction Writers in Seoul website.


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Stuff to Read

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SERIES & STANDOUT POSTS


ON WRITING & READING

For Writers. A collection of exercises & Intuition Pumps

My ongoing series Blogging Ezra Pound's The Cantos.

My ongoing (but only occasionally updated) series on SF in South Korea.

ON MUSIC

What We Talk About When We Talk About Music. A lengthy discussion of music and the arts, and what we've let corporations do to our culture:

ON KOREA & LIVING THERE

Five Expat Social Fallacies, a riff on the famous geek social fallacies.

On Teaching Writing in a Korean University

ON RPGS & GAMES

With a Side of Kimchi: My First Brush with Fiasco, an actual play report on my first game of Fiasco.

Talent Night: a prep/actual play report on my first RPG game in a decade and a half, back in 2013, played with Dread, including a free copy of the scenario.

ON OTHER SUBJECTS

How to Kill Your Successful Business in Five Easy Steps, a series on really bad business practices I've seen in action.

MUSIC

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