COMING IN THE FUTURE
Obviously, I don't want to give away too much, but I would like to share with you some other stories I've been working on. As well as ideas for literature, I have some ideas for the entertainment industry too. Of course, there's no guaranteeing that all of these works will become a reality. Only time will tell.
Family in a Tree is to be part 1 of what I refer to as my fantasy literature trilogy. The second part is a longer novel, another story set on a fantasy world map, but it is a large-scale melodrama aimed more at adults and older children. I intend to make my stories appeal to families with older children as well as to those with younger ones, and this story resembles old historical epics such as Ben-Hur and Cleopatra. So, it does contain some occasional moments of moderate violence.
The third part of my trilogy is a much shorter book aimed at children and with more pictures, but still has a bit of encyclopaedic information for family appeal. It's about a child from the real world who is whisked off to a world of fantasy, very much like a journey to Oz, Wonderland and the like.
These three fantasy books are very different from each other, and depending on public demand, I may write more, but I'm equally conscious about writing material for the entertainment industry.
The first idea for a story I ever had came out of my love for ballet and other such art forms in the theatre. Some would call the production I've written a ballet, but it's basically a narrative dance show. I set my heart on this one for a long time, certainly when I was a performing arts student, and I knew that the best way for it to be told would be through physical movement. It's a gothic tale about ghostly beings set in post- WWI Oxford.
Another story I've written with physical theatre in mind is a series intended for artistic TV channels. It will be set in yet another alternative world, this time a world of 3D art. To get an idea of what I'm thinking of, check out the classic Oscar-winning cartoon, The Dot and the Line. Already, I'm storyboarding the series. The story is rather complex, one of those times when it pays to be an artist as well as a writer.
As stated above, these are based on what could come in the future, and this story could come in the future in more ways than one. I've always had a taste for space-age science-fiction and futuristic machinery. With this in mind, I've written not the scripts, but the synopsis of what would be a series of half-hour episodes for a classic sci-fi story, a series true to the shows made by Gerry Anderson in the 60s, including Thunderbirds, Stingray and Fireball XL5. Already, I've outlined all 40 episodes, each with 800 to a thousand words, but I'm only providing a descriptive layout; the scripts should ideally be written by specialized screenwriters.