When the Moon is Fat

Not a productive week at all, compared to last, but still better than nothing at all. The difference between nothing and something is more crucial than something and a lot. Had to get a little something down after three nights away from the tale. Am about to get cracking on it now for one or two hours, after dropping by here to warm the fingers up. Listening to Tonight, Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins, a memorable video from back in the teenage day. Actually, as a consequence, it has just spun-off a memory of The Judder Man advert from a similar time. A good base for a character to take further. He makes you think about how your villains should move.

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Everything is a consequence of something else. Cause and effect. Life has a beat. Can you hear it thrum in your veins? Hear it crackle in the rustling leaves? Whoooosh, goes the wind. Watch the yellow moon sink.

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Top British horror author Conrad Williams had a similar character in his novel Decay Inevitable; a surgeon who kind of jerkily flickers around, removing organs from people. The first ideas I ever had about movement must have been the skeleton fight in Jason and The Argonauts, 1963. That was scary as a kid. There was something about the mix of live-action/animation. Many foes in later years would move in a patchy hyper-real manner. The technique has been hammered now, in the wake of epileptic seizure pop videos. Even the Queen's corgis twitched down the steps in last night's opening Olympics ceremony...