My tumblr's are feeling rather barren over at Assisting Poe and Errinyis. So I realized I haven't posted here in a bit. Ah, welcome home, right?

. . . 'Cept comparing this one to those is like preferring one apartment to another because you have an extra ottoman or two.

Anyway, Killing Poe continues to occupy most of my mind and is a significant siphon on my energy - to the point where I'm losing a bit of sleep. Like, irritatingly so. I was up way past everyone else last night, got about 6 hours before having to go into work and I spent most of my wakey-wakey time thinking I heard something outside my window and thinking I was seeing shadows in the hall. Literally I pulled a kitchen:d291bGR5b3VraW5kbHk:knife at one point and wandered back and forth with it for a while. How's that for paranoia?

Damn you, Marblehornets, to the deepest corners of hell. I digress.

I do have two followers here so it would be courteous of me to at least give you something to chew on. In the meantime, would you guys mind doing a bit of footwork for Killing Poe? Spreading the word would be much appreciated - spread this on Facebook where people can:aGVscG1lcGxlYXNlaGVscG1lDQo:see it and comment and get into the whole thing. Oh heck, just post it everywhere, let me feel like I'm:c2FmZQ0K:doing well.

Thanks everyone - I'll probably put this on Tumblr soon too. The dry spell can't last forever, right?

Oh, hey, right, there's a video to be watched, too:

Days off don't exist anymore

Still getting over the hack from last night. I know it's probably not a bit deal but I've always had a problem with a lack of justice or resolution, even over small things. I suppose it's to a fault. 

Anyway, I posted this on my Tumblr just a little but ago - figured it could go here as well. After all it hasn't ceased to be true in the last fifteen minutes. 

I'm not working 12 hours today selling pumps and heaters an swimming pool filters. But I do have a 100-page script to read, a movie to promote and very limited amounts of time to do it in. Working on my book is going to feel like a day at the beach comparatively.

To all (or currently my one) followers . . . I appreciate your ethereal presence as I just kind of ramble right now. Everywhere else in my life is pure WORK, plain and simple. It gets to be pretty overwhelming.

Though perhaps it's not so terrible... way less complicated than I'm making it out to be. I dunno about any of the rest of you, but I like to be the praying sort - as in, the sort who knows that prayer is a good thing regardless of how much you do it, but more is better and my lack of persistence works against that. Think of a piece of re-bar being stuck in the fire: the re-bar isn't hot without the fire, but once it's in the fire it stays hot even after it's been pulled out. And if you leave it in there long enough, well - you wind up with a glowing carbine that can be molded into any number of better things. I imagine that's something like what thrusting yourself into the presence of the Divine is like.

Anyway, that was a really long and drawn out way of saying that I had one of those moments last night that reminded me what that heat feels like - I sent up one of those "What the hell do I do now?" sort of prayers (and yes, I'm sure that God is bigger than my petty crudities) and the answer that came back was a very intelligent, "Why don't you try shutting up and calming down for a bit? You haven't even made any contact with your team yet.

This is true. I have a massive backbone, think-tank and more that is going into everything I'm trying to accomplish. I am working on directing about three major projects at once here and the thing that I most easily forget is that, 1) I have HELP for God's sake and 2) It's not going to happen over night. None of it. It took me over a year to even write 150 pages of my book let alone promote any of it, and it's going to take more than four days to build a reputable, credibly networking base to promote Killing Poe.

In light of that, perhaps days off actually need to be forced once in a while. Otherwise we all drop dead. 

Cheers. 

-errinyis

Hilarious

Right, so apparently some people still think it's hilarious to act juvenile and hack other people's accounts and crap. I'm not pointing fingers...well, I kind of am. But when you see this:


"QnV0IGV2aWwgdGhpbmdzLCBpbiByb2JlcyBvZiBzb3Jyb3csDQogICAgICAgICBBc3NhaWxlZCB0aGUgbW9uYXJjaCdzIGhpZ2ggZXN0YXRl"


Suddenly appear on your Twitter feed your first instinct would also most likely be "what the hell?" 


Seriously, whoever this is you know who you are. I'm willing to believe that this was my phone malfunctioning... but like I said, you know who you are. Next time I'll expect a public apology before they quit and after that I will do my damnedest to have them banned.


Now can we please play nice?

Morphing Into Primal...

...So said because the internet is a big, fat, frigging scary place. 

This is new for me - I am a writer by training, trade and temperament but I am used to word-processed documents returning to me covered in the marks of a flare-pen bearing the wisdom of those more educated than myself. Exposing myself to the general public is a new, cold, frightening and perhaps embarrassing experience for me, unless I can manage the chutzpah to just thrust myself out there for all I'm worth (extended double entendre +1).

So I guess this means I need to do something interesting to keep everyone's attention, and fast. Hmm.

I'm in a movie! (There. That worked? Phew.)

We'll, I'm making a movie. Actually I'm helping to make a movie. It's a legitimate movie too. I am, in fact, a production assistant for the movie Killing Poe, the first feature film from the wonderful minds at Emeritus Productions (http://www.emeritusproductions.com/). We are in the pre-production process right now and I will be documenting it all as it happens here, on Twitter, and on YouTube. 

Now, you're probably wondering why you should be interested at all. Well, besides the fantastic behind-the-scenes looks you'll be getting at the entire movie-making process, here's an excerpt from our Facebook page:

"The class on Edgar Allen Poe was supposed to be 'poetically profound and marvelously macabre.' But when a group of college students gets stuck with the mind-numbing professor, Dr. Lynch, they decide to take matters into their own hands by teaching him a lesson in true Poe style. The film combines humor with the surreal, blending dream with reality. As the poetry of Poe stirs the imagination, the plot thickens and the interpersonal dynamics of this cast of characters are woven together. Sooner or later they all must face the question - What do you do when freedom is under threat and so little time remains to make things right?" 

(from  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Killing-Poe-The-Movie/194754593884272)

See? Totally worth it. 

I won't just be giving updates on the movie - hopefully this will be a creative outlet for me as well that will provide endless entertainment for you readers. You can follow me on Twitter (see below... yes, way below) @ProdAssistPoe11 for regular updates on Killing Poe, or you can follow just me @errinyis to put a little snark in your life. You can also look me up on YouTube as either ProdAssistPoe11 or Errinyis with similar results, they'll just feature my wonderful face. I'm on Facebook too . . . but then you run the risk of being creepy :)

I hope this sparks your interest, gets you hooked and keeps you reading. Drink and be filled. And enjoy it while you're at it. 

-errinyis