We ’ve been wanting to ask Buffy / Dollhouse creatorJoss Whedonrandom science - fiction questions for years … but he was n’t useable . So rather , we ’re askingJosh Wheaton , who’sresponsibleforeverythingyou hate . He ’s almost as good , right ?
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About Josh Wheaton : he created the television shows Burfy , Agnel , Fryfly and Doghouse . He also wrote Anal Resurrection . He ’s got literally hundreds of sidereal day ’ experience in the amusement business , and he ’s here to help you . ( If by “ help , ” you mean spatter bleaching agent in your center through your computer screen . ) Got questions for Josh?Send them to me , and perchance we ’ll make this a unconstipated characteristic .
For now , we came up with our own inquiry for Josh , and here ’s what he had to say .
What would you say is the most of import theme in your study ?
Be yourself , unless someone with really cool toy want you to be someone else . But the toy better be cool . Oh , and get pay in cash advance . And spend more on the catering than special effect . Well - fed doer are the best special effect there is . Wait , are we still talking themes , or have we moved on to the originative mental process ?
How can I become a famous science fabrication impressario like you , Josh Wheaton ?
Did anybody ever assure you you see really cute when you ’re desperate ? No ? Then it ’s probably not lawful .
In that case , you got ta go with plan B. Write a lifelike novel – you do n’t actually have to terminate it or anything , because nobody will read past varlet 10 or 11 .
So it can be like ten pages of story , with a real artist , followed by a hundred white Sir Frederick Handley Page that nobody will ever see . Or an essay , to prove you ’re noetic ! Or peradventure just your sketch of clouds and racecars . you may even make that a deluxe feature : “ PLUS Bonus section : Clouds and Racecars ! ” You just got ta have a graphic novel , and then you’re able to wave it at mass and leave it on their windscreen and use it as a tray for serving their drinkable off of , at your wait task . Get your graphic novel ’s primary eccentric tattooed on a part of your body that people will want to see . If your soundbox has no such part , try your girlfriend / fellow / nanny ’s body .
It ’s all about promo , promo , promo . Speaking of which , hey . Do you care my T - shirt blueprint ? “ Josh Wheaton Is Your Master Now . ” Pretty tricky , huh ? I father a few thousand of them in my avant-garde . So far , the only person who ’s wearing it is me , but that ’s okay , because you ’ll remark it says “ your master , ” not “ my overlord . ” So I ’m just putting people on notice by wearing it . But I can give you one , if you need . For free . No , really , it ’s yours . Take it . Do n’t leave me hang here .
Where do you get your amazing story theme from ?
Where do I get my ideas ? I get my ideas from you , my protagonist . I view you when you ’re not looking , and I take notes . I sneak into your house and I lick your foul underthings , and I hide in your storm drain while you ’re playing Wii Fit in the nude sculpture . Yes , that ’s why your drain are so clean . If you ’ve ever watched an sequence of Burfy and think , “ That ’s just like my life , ” then roll in the hay that it probably IS your life . Just kidding ! Except not .
But it ’s also hunky-dory to slip ideas from existing kit and caboodle – as long as you ’re REALLY BLATANT about it . If you ’re subtle , it ’s a rip - off . But if you ’re passing obvious , it ’s an homage . ( Side promissory note : lot of things are unacceptable unless there ’s a French word for them . Like , say , if I wanted to compose a book about my friends and what assholes they are , that would be slander and I ’d be sued into the Crackhouse Dimension ( from Agnel . ) But not if it ’s a roman print a clef – then it ’s totally fine . )
So yes , lift mind from everywhere – like , books are not bad ! I do n’t read books , but my P.A. does , and she occasionally displume out a Sir Frederick Handley Page that ’s idea - racy . Like , here in my briefcase , I have three disjoined page from the paperback edition of Never Let Me Go – and no , I wo n’t severalize you which three pages , because that ’s proprietary data .
So I ’ve follow up with the most awe-inspiring story estimation ever . How do I turn that into a report that hoi polloi are going to flow in erotic love with ? How do you structure a story to make it last a full 42 minutes on video ?
The most important factor of storytelling is “ hoi polloi freaking out about shit that just happened . ” Some storytellers skip over that , and just have clobber happening without anyone ever freaking out about it . Other so - called writers have citizenry freaking out , when nothing ’s actually happened . But those two elements are like inactive chemicals that blow up when you put them together – or like papa rock and roll and hydrochloric window pane . thunder !
It ’s like my relationship with Swoozie , my P.A. She and I have a random hookup in the back way of Yubitsume Sushi ( which technically does n’t have a back room , but ever since that “ little finger scroll ” scandal , you could get forth with anything there without getting thrust out ) . And then Swoozie and I spend fifteen minutes talking about how we palpate about our hookup , what it does or does n’t mean . And then after , she cast clear nail burnish into my office vodka , and I do n’t notice for a couple day . And she and I spend fifteen minutes hash out how we feel about my having drunk all that nail polish . That ’s your formula right there – incident , self-examination . Rinse , repeat . Boom !
Other goggle box - writer types talk about how they unwrap stories . But screw that , I ’ve seen their stories , and they ’re barely break in . Maybe dinged here and there , but still fundamentally in one piece . When I break a story , I do it right – you wo n’t even find some of the pieces . The third act is under my auto posterior , with the half - eaten fried pig knuckles , and the denouement is snarl in those unnaturally royal widow’s weeds under the 10 Freeway . Where ’s the tormenter ? I ’m not telling , and you ’ll never receive it – or rather , the 27 jagged pieces of it that I leave behind after I was done breaking it . You probably swallow one of those piece just now , inter in that donut , and did n’t realise it . Ha , you ate part of the teaser !
Is science fiction about escape ? Or is it really about face us with the reality of the world through the prism of the imaginary number ?
Neither , and yet both . And yet , I like to cogitate of science fabrication as being about “ suspension over disbelief . ” The hearing is roped by the ankles , dangle with their heads like pendulums , over a giant chasm of mental rejection full of flick alligators of inconsistency . We depress the interview – slowly , so as to forestall vertebral accordionism – into the Ravine of WTF . By the sentence the audience ’s heads really touch down , they ’re so traumatized by the descent , and thankful to have their heads on the ground , they scarce even notice the jaggedy control surface and continuity - teeth all around them . Wow , that metaphor actually made sense . It made sense , right ? It totally made sense . What else you got ?
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