Blog 2: December 1st 2006 Hello everyone and welcome once again to the perpetual and virtual jamboree that is Kieren Brown’s BBC blog! Click the links on the right to download two of Kieren's scripts (Word format).
 | | Kieren - November 2006 |
Quite a bit has happened to me in the thirty days since I last put finger to keyboard and I’ve got a lot of stuff to share with you. Firstly, the script I wrote for Doctors was sadly rejected on the grounds that I didn’t know the characters well enough. The lady that commented on it referenced the scene I had written in which a panic stricken Emily, having seen a mouse scurry along the floor at breakneck speed accidentally throws her scalding hot chocolate over Nick’s chest and receives a severe reprimand for her troubles. Apparently Nick’s (understandably) angry reaction was over the top, you can judge for yourself by reading the entire script here. Truth be told that decision kinda broke me down for a day or two. I really wanted them to make my script and I watched that show every day for two months in order to really get in tune with it before I started writing it. Still, as my mom always says “If you want good, your nose have to run” (She’s Jamaican you see, which explains the shockingly fractured grammatical structure!) and she’s right. No writer ever got an easy ride to the top and it’d be foolish of me to expect I’d be any different. Against the wall I gotta butt my head against the proverbial brick wall until either the wall or my head goes. I can’t ever give up, ever.
 | | Kieren a few years ago |
Moving swiftly on, I’ve written the first four episodes of my cartoon Captain Impulse Version 3.1 and am now scouring the internet in the hopes of finding a godlike artist to draw up the character and world designs before taking things to the next level. You see my idea is that once the designs are drawn up I and my artist approach companies together, split the proceeds of its generous sale down the middle and party our pants off like rock stars for the next month. Now I’ve corresponded with loads of pencillers but the responses are generally the same, they love the idea but are either too busy with other projects or too busy with university to take it on board. It’s seriously looking like I might have to dig into my pockets and pay someone to do these pictures but I’d be looking at forking out fifty quid per design and I need exactly fifteen separate designs drawn up! And Christmas is only a month away; I still ain’t bought any presents! And my temporary nine to five office job pays a very meagre salary! Oh cruel world! Doesn’t look like I’ll be doing any personal shopping for a while now will I? Still; who really needs soul destroying material possessions like, a sleek 30gb video ipod, the second season of Extras on DVD and a much needed new pair of jeans when you’ve got your priorities in order eh? I did a Russian Cossack jig in my bedroom
 | | Kieren Brown |
Hey ho for the financially abstinent! Here’s some good news. Anyways my comic Tempest (read it here) is nearing its completion. I’ve got a brilliant Canadian artist by the name of Andre (surname as yet unspecified) drawing up the pages for me as we speak. He says he’ll have it finished just after Christmas which will be just my particular brand of vodka. Once this badboy’s done, Andre and I will pool our resources and harass the heck out of every comics publisher in the western world in the hopes of getting them to make it into a series! I’ve been told I can be very persuasive! And finally some more good news. I was in Nostalgia and Comics the other day when the nice girl behind the counter suggested that if I want to build up contacts in the UK I should write to a Birmingham based artist named John Mcrea (pretty established individual, has actually drawn for Marvel, DC, AND Darkhorse comics). And in the form of a gushing email with two sample comic scripts attached, that’s exactly what I did. John got back to me two days later and said he liked my work, what’s more he also said that he’d be chairing a comics convention at the Custard Factory on the 8th and 9th of December and that I should come along with more scripts, introduce myself to him, and that he’d personally introduce me to some publishers!
 | | Kieren as a child |
I can’t lie people, after I read that I did a Russian Cossack jig in my bedroom, high fived my wall with gusto and attempted to leap my king sized bed in a single bound (didn’t work sadly, I slipped, tripped and gave myself a nice little shiner off my desk. I’m ok now though!). So as you can imagine, I’m working on loads of comic series to take to the convention so that I can impress the hell out of John when we meet, below are brief synopsis of two I’m writing right now. Adrian’s Journey A complete womaniser cheats on the wrong woman who turns out to be a maniacal voodoo witch. Said witch casts a spell on his groin completely robbing him of his male potency (!) He travels the world in search of a cure. Polarity The Kuuren, (a fictional medieval society) is blessed with the emergence of their one true messiah or Talin, a beautiful female deity who leads them to victory against their sworn enemies and ushers in a new age of prosperity for their people. Little do they realise that she is actually Evelya Demonatri, a fugitive from the 25th century wanted for the manufacture of a bio war agent that took the lives of 3.5 billion people and is being hunted through time by the Temporal Constabulary! Well guys that’s pretty much all I have to say for this month, thanks from the bottom of my heart for taking the time out to share this journey with me, people. It’s been emotional! | 
