Donald Firesmith's Blog - Posts Tagged "hell-holes"

We now have an outline for the first draft of the script for the What Lurks Below movie. You can read this outline on my author website at http://donaldfiresmith.com/movie-scri...

During the last three days, I have made a great deal of progress on supporting background for Hell Holes: Insurrection. The sequel to the prequel has 6 species of demons (devils, imps, ogres, trolls, hellhounds, and gargoyles), 6 alien slave species (blurk, kextuxix, mrkl, norg, thaku, and vim), and human slaves for a grand total of approximately 100-150 named characters and numerous unnamed "red shirts." The alien species all need bits of individual languages so that the names of characters within a species are consistent in terms of approximate pronunciations while also clearly being different from the names of characters in other species. I have to make sure that the characters are consistent between the prequel and the sequel, e.g., in terms of where they live and which ones die or are injured when.
So, for the last several days, I've been making language pronunciation charts (vowels, consonants, syllables) and character charts (names, pronunciations, locations, and jobs). I think I have everything documented and consistent for the half of the book I have written so far.

I feel a little like what J.R.R. Tolkien and Tolstoy must have felt when writing their complex magnum opuses.
I have the rest of the chapters blocked out in terms of action and characters. If I keep my head down and don't get sidetracked by too many short stories, I might just finish the book this year.