I just finished the lyric, scene list and the storyboard for my first musical 3d animation. Now I’m waiting for the hardware and software.

Fable “Sing when you’re winning” Fox

I’m going to redesign Fable Fox blog. I’m going to use blogging engine, but to make it look like a company website more than a personal site.

Maybe sometime next month.

Fable “It’s time” Fox

I’m about to get funding to develop a short animation. So for this six month I’ll be busy developing animation.

Fable “marching on” Fox

Now I have a new battle cry:

Everything for you Anne, everything.

When I’m down, I’ll say it.
When I’m injured, I’ll say it.
When I’m sad, I’ll say it.
When I just gave to keep in fighting, I’ll say it.
When I have to keep on going for another second, I’ll say it.

Fable “Everything for you Anne, everything” Fox

And all of that just for her…

Annete O’Toole. Martha Kent of SmallVille fame. Nuff said.

Fable “I’m coming!” Fox

Check this out –> http://www.azhar-translations.com

Give me an opportunity and I’ll do my best. That is my promise. I always do, unless peope screw me along the way. But, I always deliver. Two published books, a lot of articles, and even more machinery for my dad to sell and keep the money. The point is this, give me an opportunity and I’ll do my best. For that is me. That is Fable Fox.

PS - The site need more work, I know. But this is a very good start

Fable “I give 1000%” Fox

There are a lot of things that I want to do before I die, and I doesn’t know if I can do any of them - looking at how things are going. But here is two important thing that will happen before I die:

1) I will relocate to Oregon (maybe around Corvallis area) and play with snow in winter.
2) I will meet Annete O’Toole (Martha Kent in SmallVille, the mother in Stephen King ‘It’).

Annete o’Toole and her husband.

She is the only reason I’m breathing right now ever since the tsunami, and one day you’ll know why - if I get to live long enough. Actually, she is the only reason I do anything these days.

To know what I’m trying to say, just listen to “The Reason” by Hoobastank.

Fable “Running out of time and option” Fox

Last night I watched CSI on NTV7. The story is about an assasin who got killed by the hirer. The reason? He hike the price two fold after getting the job done. He might still live if he mentioned the exact price right from the start.

Boy. Life is interesting. After a lot’s of blood, sweat and tears on getting a novel done - I get to face the same thing. My publisher want me to increase the novel number of pages into two fold, from 200 to 400. That isn’t a problem. The problem is that the same publisher want to make sure the writer  didn’t write most of the things that get into  novels - words that visualize.

You know, words. Words that visualize. That’s why we read novels in the first place. To visualize. If you never go to the desert, you want to read a novel that let’s you visualize how the desert look like. Even in fiction or fantasy, you want to imagine things. And that what the novel are for, to enrich your imagination. When you read Frank Herbert ‘Dune’. You can feel like you lived there. No wonder people are saying that Dune is sci-fi equivalent of ‘The Lord of The Ring’. I love novels that contain a lot of visualization, so I can imagine things. I never went onto an aircraft carrier, but novels allow me to. I never been to Vietnam, but novels allow me to. I never went to the united state, but the novels allow me to. What is the point to write novel that contain 80% dialogs and no visualization. So that we can have it translated to english, and yet the americans won’t even know how a songket looked like? A kebaya looked like? Why Kelantanee wear kain pelikat, and how kain pelikat looked like?

I actually slept at 5.30 in the morning finalizing the novel - which I have been working on for a long time.

First of all, I’m soo sorry. I grow up on english novels. Normal novels. Enid Blyton. Stephen King. J.K. Rowling (I didn’t buy it though, it was my niece’s). In a matter of fact, even when I was a small child, I read serious horror books. One that I can remember is ‘As Evil Does’. The other is a book which cover contains a half-sunken head in earth, and a house with shining pane. A hand came out of earth. For those who remember the title, please tell me. I would like to read it again. If I’m correct, it about a plant that eat people after being exposed to blood. Maybe this is the book that started the movie ‘Little House of Horror’.

One of my favourite movie when I was a kid is ‘Stand By Me’. It was based on Stephen Kings ‘Body’. I also seriously enjoy ‘The Stand’. I totally like ‘It’. Maybe because it starring Annete O Toole (Martha Kent of SmallVille fame). And of course, the monster looked just like a clown

I don’t limit myself to anything when it came to novels. I read everything that I can get my hand on (that’s why most of the novels are not mine). Novels on ninjas. Soldiers. I even read the true story novel about the creation of dog fighting school ‘Top Gun’. Okay, that is mine. I love aviation and military.

The point is, I read novels. I grow up on novels. I know what a novels look like. What this publisher is trying to do is like asking me to build a house using cards, and it has to withstand earthquakes and gale winds. And after I managed to get it done, no, they want a bungalow now…

Forget about novels. I have a life. I got plans. Okay, so I don’t have a life. That’s what I’m trying hard right now. Escape fate and finally have some life (and some love too). Anyway, why don’t they mentioned this earlier on? An e-mail mentioning that they has increase the page count from 200 to 400 is enough. So I can plan things out.

Now everything is a wreck. At times I was thinking to just give the manuscript to other publishing house and get it done and over with - for a lump sum payment. What I need right now  is a new PC with good 3D accelerator, not some publisher that keeps increasing the page count, and at the same time limit what you can write into it. 80% dialogs? Dude, we’re writing novels. Not drama for radio. No words for visualazation ??? We are writing novels! Not drama for radio.

Again, I’m sorry. Usually I’m a teeth gritter. You know, the guy who always grit his teeth, even when pain is eating his heart and soul. Heck, I’ve been gritting my teeth for almost 30 years. But there are time I just got to let it go. I guess this is one of those days.

I love to write. But only when I’m writing things that I love. The way I love it.

PS  - for those that may concern - I can’t write ’surah yusuf’ style and keep it at 400 pages. I’m not God.
PPS - Maybe I shoud emulate Stephen King and J.K Rowling. Both of them are human and both of them are rich. Period.

Fable “I’m mere human” Fox

Writing a movie script based on your own teenage novel isn’t that hard, specially if you did it just right after you finished the novel - and everything is still fresh in your mind.

Phew.

Fable “Just Do It” Fox

Just something to do while writing screenplay, I decided to code a Dune 2 save game editor, which will edit the amount of spice you have. For more information, read the included text file.

dune2edit.zip

Fable “Master of the House” Fox