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She Is the End

They stole Relai’s crown and used it to kill Milo’s family. She wakes up. He’s there to kill her.

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Christopher Leone

Writer & co-creator of THE LOST ROOM on SyFy and writer/director of PARALLELS on Netflix.

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Hi everybody,

Just wanted to let you know I’ve added chapters 2 and 3! I have the feeling I might hone these chapters again before I’m done but I’m happy with them tonight and wanted to share.

I’m writing Chapter 12 now but Chapter 2 was probably the most difficult chapter for me to write so far because I was starting to toy with point of view and struggled with what my approach would be. Originally I was torn between staying strictly with Milo, and seeing his arch-enemy Dylan only from Milo’s point of view in these early chapters, or else starting to jump around in point of view and start to see things from Dylan’s side. I think in the end I did both: we’re introduced to Dylan through Milo’s eyes, but then partway through chapter 2 we make the first leap into another character’s POV.

Jumping into different point of views is strange new territory for me as a screenwriter. In screenplays you can’t really do that. You can cut to a new scene and a different character, or maybe SUGGEST a slight shift in POV during a scene. But that’s nothing compared to diving into another character’s head completely, or even jumping between characters within a single scene. I can still see a version of this story I could tell strictly from Milo’s point of view, but I think that would be limiting. I think getting to know all the characters from inside their heads is the best way to tell this story and is frankly just more fun.

The next time I post I may leap forward in the story to a later chapter -- I’m impatient to show you guys some of the crazier alien stuff that happens next.

--Chris

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Dylan stormed through the woods, crunching leaves and snapping branches, with no idea where he was going. He was bleeding from his nose down to the crooked jag in his upper lip but he was too angry to feel it.

“THREE COBRAS!” shouted Brian, trailing behind. He pumped his fists into the air. “THREE COBRAS!” He stopped and shook a spray paint can with a clackety-clackety-clack and sprayed a big green “3” on a nearby tree trunk.

“Would you SHUT UP,” Dylan shouted back. “I thought you . . .

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Dylan stormed through the woods, crunching leaves and snapping branches, with no idea where he was going. He was bleeding from his nose down to the crooked jag in his upper lip but he was too angry to feel it.

“THREE COBRAS!” shouted Brian, trailing behind. He pumped his fists into the air. “THREE COBRAS!” He stopped and shook a spray paint can with a clackety-clackety-clack and sprayed a big green “3” on a nearby tree trunk.

“Would you SHUT UP,” Dylan shouted back. “I thought you . . .

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The 9th Planet

"The problem with living a really long life, is that sometimes you outlive your star." A rogue planet tumbles through the cosmos; while its people desperately search for a new home in an alien system, before being jettison back out into space.

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