Everything is set now with these latest episodes. The pieces are all in place and the ASKOF story line has come to the point where the movie fits in. So, in a little over three weeks, Pandora's Box will finally premiere.
Episodes 5.2 and Bonus 5.1 air now.
Everything is set now with these latest episodes. The pieces are all in place and the ASKOF story line has come to the point where the movie fits in. So, in a little over three weeks, Pandora's Box will finally premiere.
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So, tonight we reach the 100th ASKOF episode. I only recently found out that the milestone for syndication has apparently been lowered to 88, and in some cases even that is ignored. I'm sticking with 100, because I like that number.
The average word count for an ASKOF episode is 5,000. So, doing the math, yes, the series has hit somewhere around 500,000 words. Take that NaNaWriMo! I've written 10 of your novels. (Of course, it's taken me 17 years, but we'll let that go for now. Besides, if we factor in all the other Reluctant Monkey stories, we're at somewhere around 725,000, not counting the lost stories, like Flashbacks. I think I might be getting the hang of this writing thing. *ahem* Quality of writing not guaranteed.) So, yay. ASKOF has reached the necessary episodes to go into syndication. Totally makes me want to create a "rerun" calendar. ;) When ASKOF originally ran, I changed the site look for each new season. I didn't do that between 3 & 4, but it was looking really dated, so in anticipation of the movie and season 5, I've done so now. I'll probably still poke around and fix things here and there, but for the most part, this is the new look. :)
I've been looking over the ASKOF movie and I seem to be missing a chunk I wrote some time ago. I remember it well enough and can easily rewrite it, but it's bugging me that I can't find it. It's my own fault. I am terrible with both file names and where I put things. I once found an ASKOF episode saved in the same folder as the downloaded font I used for the title page. *face palm*
I'd forgotten exactly when I first started ASKOF. I remembered I wrote the original Falling probably about a year before picking it back up and - ahem - expanding the story a wee bit, but I honestly couldn't pin it down to anything more definite than the late 1990s.
And then tonight, out-of-the-blue, I remembered something. I went to see the Johnny Depp Sleepy Hollow movie the night it opened, and when I got home, I wrote episode 1.2. Thanks to IMDB, I now know that night was November 19, 1999. Assuming that was within a week or so of writing 1.1, that would mean ASKOF originally debuted sometime early November 1999. Notes to self:
Season 4 needs an episode guide. There really, really should be a cast list. (Wonders whatever happened to the original one.) The Music, Volume 2 needs to be spliced together. The original A Simple Kind of Fear inspiration was a combination of the weird music of Lee Blaske* and the television show Twin Peaks. There are various references to the show throughout ASKOF, such as the name of the ME and Ghostwood. That said, I find it funny that a show that was cancelled and left the viewers hanging with many unfinished plot lines is now coming back so many years later. Since I did the same thing, there's yet another "tribute" to add to the list. Heh. [SIDE BAR: Dear Golly, did I love the Psych Twin Peaks send-up. That was awesome. I keep thinking I want to do the same thing with an ASKOF episode.] *Many years ago, I went looking for some music to play during a Halloween party. I stopped in at a Sam Goody's in our local mall and found - in a clearance bin - a cassette (cassette! hee!) called The Immortal Kiss of the Vampire. I had no idea what it was, but I figured for a couple of dollars, I'd buy it and see if it was something that could be played at my party. Yes. It works well for a Halloween party (though the short narration bits are a little jarring as a break in the music, if you are using it for "background" and not active listening). I put one song from the album on the notes page and another is included in the Music, Volume 1 soundtrack. The second song - Ancient Heart - was the one that had the creepy vibe I wanted for ASKOF. (Which, to ramble off on another tangent, is kinda funny, considering I never actually pulled off "creepy" in any of the episodes.) ETA [SECOND SIDE BAR: I know I've been known for my love of Doctor Who (from way back before the series restart... JellyBaby!) and I've probably mentioned I loved Stargate SG-1 - and to a lesser extent Atlantis and to no extent at all the every-character-was-a-big-bucket-of-unsympathetic-suck Universe - but I've been recently re-watching all my Psych DVDs and have come to realize that without even consciously recognizing it, this show may have moved up to my all-time fave slot. I adore Shawn and Gus so much. It makes me want to write a series of stories with Trixie and Honey in those roles!] Holy cheezits! I got my new phone's mobile hot spot to work properly. I'm gonna hafta hoard my data, but I think this means I can start posting again. *crosses fingers and wishes hard*
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