One Page 2006

Red Right Hand has issued the call once again... This feels a bit like cheating because I posted a page from this discarded version of my werewolf script last time, but I’m going through some stuff right now with its current incarnation -- better known as procrastination -- so a trip down memory lane might put me in a better frame of mind.
I abandoned this version for a few reasons. First, the protagonist was too much of a Lara Croft clone. Wealthy. Beautiful. Adventurer. *Yawn* I went back to the drawing board and tried to create a more interesting character who didn’t have everything. The other issue for me was tone. I always start with the darkest of intentions but the jokes start flying as soon as my characters open their mouths. These days, horror comedy is the equivalent of putting a bio-hazard sign on the movie marquee. Have I been 100% successful? Meh. I’ve made the world that these characters inhabit, less fantastical. Yeah, there are werewolves but no special guest appearances by the invisible man, zombie queens or the mutant frogman nation.