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Here are some photos I thought I'd scan in. Yes, scan them.

Radio show thoughts

Before I talk about the radio show, the word of the day is--Arcane: known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric.

I was tossing around ideas for the show. I thought about places. Professor X has a school, Harry Potter has a school, some people have a warehouse, library, etc. A place or base, for operations. We talked about a laboratory. A few other places I was thinking of are a museum or a library special collections. Museums often have their own labs and project workspaces, etc. It could be a Museum of Mysteries, kind of a cheap Ripley's Believe it or Not that serves as a cover for intense investigations of unusual phenomena. Underneath are vaults, labs, etc. Also, I worked in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections for a number of years and it had its own mysterious element to it. Lots of neat items hidden away from the public, restricted access, and not to mention it is a spooky place when nobody is around. Perfect place to augment for a story. And what do they do? They collect rare items and objects. The Special Collections of Secrets or something.
Or you can look up cabinet of curiosities. It's a thriller novel, but also actual historical places that housed collections of stuff. Also a Cabinet of Wonder or in German a Wunderkammer (wonder room).
I thought more about titles than content for now. Something catchy, intriguing, etc.
Museum of Mysteries, Special Collections of Secrets, Mavens of Mystery. Escapades of Yadda Yadda. Exploits of This and That.
Another thing I was thinking about was Mythbusters. We can't use the name obviously, but the idea is intriguing. I was told that there is a woman who works in the Church office building whose sole job is to research all the Mormon legends and myths to find out what is true and what is not. I thought that would be an exciting job.

I know we have a basic idea, but not sure how far we'd carry the mysterious element to it--alien artifacts and the like. I'm trying to modify it some way so we're not sounding like the Twilight Zone, Warehouse 13, or anything else. Originality is important to me.

One more thing I thought I'd mention and ask thoughts on. So, are we going to do a radio show or an audio book type thing? A radio show is diverse and exciting. It will also require a lot more. We will need to have character voices, male and female, that we can continuously use along with other voices that come and go with episodes. Basically we need actors who are committed. I think we're good for males, but whose wife is willing to do this...a lot? Just a thought.

Ancient writings above Cedar?

Not to fill your inbox with things from me, but since we don't have internet at our apt. I can only get on so much at a time.

Have you guys ever been to the supposed ancient writings in the hills above the golf course? They don't look that ancient, but I've been doing some research lately. Apparently one man has discovered 24 sites with similar markings across 6 or 7 different states here in the west. In Utah there are sites in Fillmore, Cedar, Manti, and Nephi. Just wondered if you guys have ever heard about them. Maybe I'll post pictures later.

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Can we have some mystery and intrigue please?

radio etc.

I've thought of something like your exercise before, but for other purposes. There's that game we used to play where you say or write one sentence of the story. Well, with the advent of wikipedia and other things, journalists tried to use it to do citizen journalism. They tried to have citizens edit and alter stories based on their new information and situations in the community. Didn't work too well. Going along with that, I've often thought that would be fun to do a novel like that on the web. A web story that is created by multiple people. That way the story if very unexpected and different, more unique than any story by a single author ever could be. You would still have to moderate it and make tasteful edits for morality, continuity, etc, but it could be a very unique creation. However, that is a different future idea altogether.

I also agree with the doing whatever we want. having had the desire to write successful novels from time to time, I've also struggled with the notion that it has to appeal to the largest audience possible. Let's be honest, publishers, movie companies and the like are all interested in the really big ideas that will go far. Ok, so some times you wonder "who in the world put this idea together and what were they thinking?" But generally it works that way. I also agree that the internet kind of solves some of that problem. In the print industry, newspapers are dying because people can go to the internet. Magazines have still retained a small foothold because they are niche industries. That's largely how the internet works, too. You only need a niche and you can get an audience a lot of the time.
Perhaps I should've used the ramble alert.

Radio Show

It's dark, and damp. Water drips from the grates above, and the occasional early morning driver causes the tunnel to gasp as cars speed overhead, unaware of a small group gathered beneath them.
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Here's what I was thinking. Let's write a couple of possible episodes and share them around, then we can kind of talk about which direction to go. It seems to me that, with distribution methods available these days, we can pretty much do whatever we want, and as long as the stories are good and the quality is good, we can generate a following. I've begun to hear stories about people who have just struck out on something interesting and discovered that other people are interested and have been following their progress.

There's a musician, whose name I don't remember, who was featured on a Planet Money podcast a while back, who started writing and recording songs for fun. What he was doing resonated with enough people that he's become quite successful, and has even quit his old day job to be a musician. I'm not suggesting that our goal should be fame and fortune, (though we could probably do with some fortune if it came along). I just think that the Internet makes it so that content creators can think a lot less about what people will think of their creations. In the world of Network Television, you have to make something that most of the people will like all of the time. On the Internet, if you just do something that you like, chances are there are a few other people out there that will like it too. If there are only %.000001 of the Internet community that likes what you do, they still mean a huge audience.

Those are my thoughts.

And another thought that just came to me -- something we can do as a sort of exercise and get some ideas flowing. We could do that game where we pass the story off one to another. One person can write a paragraph or so, and whomever else feels like picking it up can. We can do this in a comment thread, or if you want...

I can set up a website :)

-BacH

Radio Show

So, i am the first person to come about the radio show....hmmm. Well, I think it should have...audio. And dialogue. Wow. This would be 80-90% dialogue. Comedy, mystery, adventure? Sci-fi? Anyways, just thought I'd check in here. Bye!