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I’m kidding, no one’s going to read this. At least I knocked out an overdue Wet Hot American Summer reference out in the title. This site was sorely lacking in those.
The Hero’s Gurnal (as I have so bravely titled it) will be a collection of one-off writing projects that I’ve worked on before and never quite fleshed out into anything more substantial.
Originally I had planned to debut a different writing sample here first, but formatting issues nearly made that other piece completely lost to the world. Unfortunately for all of us, I found it elsewhere and it’s somewhat readable- so in a few months time that will also be going up here. There’s countless bits and pieces and projects I’ve gotten into over time, so I’m not quite sure what treasures we’ll see here. Maybe some never-before-shared stuff. We’ll see.
I’m going to start with No Strings Attached– (possibly also With Strings Attached– I never quite decided.) Either way it’s not as sexy as it sounds, because this is a screenplay for a TV show about puppets.
The idea was that the show takes place in a world where a child’s birthday wish made all the puppets in the world come to full sentient life, and our main character absolutely hates them all. The rest of the world has been a lot more accepting of this phenomenon for whatever reason.
The idea was that over time, he would be forced to become friends with one of his puppet coworkers, and that we would slowly watch him come around while being forced to cooperate in every aspect of his life. Think Perfect Strangers but Balki is a sentient ventriloquist’s dummy.
We start with a cold open that goes to greater distances than other scenes to show that the puppets can be annoying to be around. They tend to be a lot more calm and collected than Marty is in any given scene elsewhere.
