Darby is home & The Call Center
Posted by | Posted in Writing | Posted on 26-05-2010
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Last night we had a rather pleasant surprise. Our friends Mike and Brenda stopped by with a little box to give us. These are the couple that we got Darby from a few years back. As I mentioned previously we opted not to get Darby’s ashes from the cremation. We wanted them but we had already spent so much that week just trying to help her out that it wasn’t something we could afford at that time. Mike and Brenda contacted the vet the Friday she went to sleep and took care of that for us. It was a huge surprise for us and after another good cry we are thrilled to have her back in the house with us.
So, onto other things. Some of you might know or some of you might not know that I have been messing around with scripting a audio series for the last year and a half. It is more or less set as a sitcom type with most episodes ranging, and I’m estimating here, from 15 to 30 minutes long. It’s working title is ‘The Call Center’ even though I’m not sure I want to use that. It revolves mainly around two people who work for the Federal Annoyance Response Team, they man the phones in a call center and specialize on zombies. There is much more than just zombies going on though. In this world everything can happen. If you have seen it in a movie then it is out there. What do you do when you have something attacking you that you can’t deal with? Well you call for help of course. But you better listen to the phone menu so you don’t get transferred.??
I’ve finished scripting and rewriting 4 episodes of this so far with a 5th pretty close to done and ideas for the 6th in place. Monday I sent out a call on Twitter for voice actors so if you would like to help out let me know. This is going to be the trying part of the entire thing since I currently have to fill about 20 roles. Some short, some long. With this many people I am wondering if I can get the audio quality to sound good. We will see. Sending out the parts to the names I have signed up on that tomorrow. More later.

Having read some of Call Center before, I think it will be very funny and I can’t wait!