There might be something worth saying about the
reporting on Ghostbusters, but that is part of a bigger trend on
reporting around news and politics and sports, too, as the Olympic coverage has
highlighted. I'm going to put that on hold for now.
I haven't reviewed any comics for a while, but there
are a few that I am reading avidly. Some of them have been mentioned before,
but there is also a new one:
I'm not going to review it now, because it's not
quite finished yet, but as the story nears resolution the wait between new
pages has become ever more maddening.
The author, Anna Sahrling-Hamm, has come up before
for a shorter piece, Hearts - an adaptation of M R James' "Lost
Hearts".
It was another M R James adaptation that leads to
this next story.
I feel pretty comfortable saying that for James,
"Lost Hearts" is a better story than "Wailing Well". He
wrote "Well" for the Scouts, and that added some length that slows
down the story.
I find it harder to compare the comics, but "Wailing
Well" was the one that sent me ghostly dreams.
Yesterday's post hit at some frustration that there
doesn't seem to be much of a market for original screenplays, but one possible
exception to that is horror. Still, I had been thinking that continuing to
write feature length screenplays, rather than maybe trying to get a short film
made - or anything other than what I have been doing - might be a better
strategy. But dang it if there's not a story in those ghostly dreams, and if
the appropriate format for it isn't a feature-length screenplay.
Maybe I can't help but revert to type, but
inspiration is a special thing. Following those story threads to see how they
come out is a big part of who I am. It may explain my affection for artists and
authors and musicians, who express their creativity in their own ways. And
often they inspire me.
Besides, maybe this is the one that will sell.
Anna Sahrling-Hamm is available for commissions: https://twitter.com/ASahrlingHamm
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