The Beacon

Graduate Showcase

Woo! So The Beacon is more or less complete and I’ll be performing sections of it for the Creative Writing Graduate Program Graduate Showcase. 

The idea is I read the narration and then I have four performers who will be pantomiming and speaking the lines of the characters. I bought a sweet outfit for it so expect a selfie sometime soon.

Right now I’m going over the spoken script and continually revising. I have over the weekend to revise more, but I’m most likely going to continue to revise before submitting it anywhere. I’m going to do my utmost to get this thing published. It’s pretty swell even if it is a bit sex heavy at time. It’s not pornographic just lewd.

Showcase announcement 

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Proposal for The Beacon

It is my intent that my Creative Master’s Thesis, The Beacon, achieves a number of things, chief among them a corruption of the novel as limited by narrative prose, a dredging up of unconscious blindness to stagnant perceptive modes, the magic of reading and the desire to fulfil at all opportunity. The inspiration for The Beacon came from a hotel room chat I was having with a few friends in 2011 about alien archaeologists and what they might discover and interpret from their discoveries if they were to find our earth, ruined as it is. Initially the Mayan Apocalypse had some bearing on this germinal thought, with it fast approaching, but then we got to talking about the overwhelming amounts of pop-culture paraphernalia. The conversation then turned to how this paraphernalia has subsumed our identities as people. We are no longer ourselves but our consumer habits and Amazon wish-lists.

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