I've had this long-term project going on for some time now -- over
twenty-five years, in fact, and it's finally reaching a conclusion of
some sort. I'm recording an audio drama right now that I first wrote
back in the early eighties. This is not the sole iteration, as it began
life as a short story. Then I wrote a stage adaptation of it, and now,
finally, a dramatic audio production. Each version required it's own
structure and script form, and I'm thinking this version is the tightest
and most enjoyable of them all. It's also the last one I ever intend to
do. Over the first few years, I showed the short story to a number of
people. No one ever seemed to "get" it, or, if they did, they simply
didn't like it. Fair enough. Certainly no publisher ever took an
interest, despite several attempts on my part. Again, that's just fine.
Later on, I showed the stage play version to others, with much the same
reaction, save for one or two folks who seemed somewhat impressed. I
would have tried to launch even a modest production of it myself, but
there were technical challenges involved that I simply wasn't able to
overcome, or didn't feel I could (money being one of them). Ah,
well...back on the shelf with it.
Flash forward a decade or two, and I'm an audiocaster. The
Interwebbygophernets are now available for me to distribute my work
through, and I've gained the bare minimum skills needed to do an audio
version of the story in a manner that I can more-or-less feel okay
about. In other words, I can finally produce and publish it myself. If
it finds a moderate audience, that'd be great. If not, that'd be great
too. I will have released it for general consumption at long last (with
delicious Creative Commons goodness, no less), and that strikes me as a
fine place to let it rest.
Be on the lookout, gentle reader, for news about "Blue Heaven" in the
coming months (I'm shooting for the end of January, but you know how
that goes).
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