Progress Report
I may be behind in
my writing projects but I’m making progress. I just completed
writing my first novella last night. It’s a virtual reality-video
game sci fi/dark fantasy. Sure, it’s going to need a lot of
revising but as many long-time authors will say, one of the most
important steps in the fiction writing process is to finish the first
draft. A year or two ago, I had started writing a novella but never
finished it. I allowed myself to drift away from it and never resumed
writing it. Maybe I’ll go back to it someday after revising this
new one.
Besides finishing
the first draft of my novella, I’ve been working on the cover to
the print edition of “Circa Sixty Years Dead”. The illustration, title and byline lettering are all set up
since I’m using the same graphics as I did for the ebook edition.
But I need to write the back cover summary which shouldn’t take me
long. However, I may need to examine a copy of the print edition
before I can release it for sale. Amazon would have to send me the
copy, or proof as they call it in the publishing industry, which
could take a couple of weeks. You really don’t know how good a
print book looks until you see it in actuality as opposed to on
screen.
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Adam West ‘Batman’ Dies at 88
It seems that all
year, Hollywood stars have been dying left and right. It may just be
that many of them are up there in age and so they are naturally
reaching the end of their life spans. Adam West, who was most known
for the campy 1960s Batman TV series was one of them. He died
at 88 Friday night. It’s hard to believe he was that old. So it was
a shock when I saw the news about his death on SpyVibe, a blog
that discusses ‘60s espionage fiction in its various mediums
(movies, TV, books, etc.). Jason Whiton, the blog host of SpyVibe,
has a far out article
that pays tribute to Mr. West, which if you grew up watching
the ‘60s Batman series like me (even though it was a little
before my time, I watched the re-runs weekday afternoons), I strongly
suggest you read it. It brought back a lot of the sensations I felt
when I watched the series as a kid and so it will probably do the
same for you.
Sure, Adam West’s
Batman was not your Dark Knight Detective as we know the character
today from Christopher Nolan’s movies or Tim Burton’s 1989
cinematic adaptation. But many of us came to know the true Dark
Knight, the Gothic super hero, through the campy ‘60s series from
when we were kids which therefore served as a starting point. So I
owe a lot to Adam West’s Batman since it was what got me started on
the Batman character to begin with. If I never watched the TV series,
I probably wouldn’t be as much of the Bat fan that I am today.
I just finished
reading a good sci fi novel which is nostalgic for the 1970s and
millimeter filmmaking of
monster movies. It’s called Mr. Fishback’s Monster,
by Steve Sabatka,
which I’ll try to have a review of here next time.
So, Bat fans, did
you grow up watching the ‘60s Batman TV series? If not then
what got you started on Batman?
Until next time,
same Far Out Fantastic channel . . . !
Very sad. Yes, I did grow up on watching the cheesy show. Big DC fan, so I took everything I could get.
ReplyDeleteThat's neat! I would watch every single episode, even the ones I hated. Which is how much I liked Batman and Robin! Lol
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