Hi.  Yes this is the first attempt at such a project and must note that I have never been published in any form. I just really love writing.   I was rather ill this summer and spent most of it on my back at my parents place.  Just before getting ill I had ordered a whole stack of Doctor Who (and spinoff) radio plays from England, and that was pretty much all I had to listen to except for a few other music cds my parents picked up from my home.  Once I started feeling better I decided to try and write a radio play (since it was something I had never attempted before and I wanted allow other ideas for a second graphic novel to simmer in the back of my mind).  As for narrative, I wanted each play to stand on its own, but also be part of a much larger story that is being told from a future point in time.  Because of this each play will/should start out with a monologue by the main character Eric.  Below is the monologue from the first play:

ERIC

** Emmett City, Saskatchewan, population 2500.  To the west,  south and east of the town are the vast plains that dominate the province.  To the north are the salt flats and mine which employ most of the townspeople. My name is Eric Faramond.  I own a bookstore, the only one in town, which makes it a very busy place, but this story is not about my bookstore.  Looking back on it now this story is about magic and history, life and death, and how one can see so much in such a short time that changes them forever.  This story, my story, begins in Emmett City, in the month of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand and eight.** 

And here is the opening monologue from the second play:

ERIC

**            October 26th 1764.  It has been almost three months since I arrived here with my late Uncle Jurgen.  My uncle expected me to take his place and I suspect that Jurgen thought that he would have more time to educate me, but his death left me stranded, a prisoner of the past.  Yet I am not alone.  As the new Count of Fara I have a whole village of people to look out for and I have my tutor, the Lady Belinda.  Under her training I have learned enough German to easily hold a conversation and even more importantly I have begun translating many of my uncle’s journals in the hopes that I will find a way back to my own time.  So far I have learned nothing except that I am once again late for another tutoring session.**

In the scripts I have included sound effects  ranging from present day airports to German forests and battles with daggers, knifes, swords that leads up to the climax inside a raging forest fire.  I have also included music, almost all of it classical pieces that will either fit the scene (such as St. John's Night on Bald Mountain for the forest fire) or pieces by composers such as Biber, and Shostakovich, to represent specific locations like Strom Manor in the city of Mannheim, or the fictional village of Fara deep in the heart of the Black Forest.

At some point I hope to either get the money to produce the plays myself or see if I can sell the series of plays to a company like Bigfinish and have them produced.  I'm aiming for a runtime of about 50-75 minutes maximum because that is all that will fit onto a cd, but if the story takes 2cds worth of space to tell than that's what will happen.  For me telling a great story is most important and I will deal with the other aspects of creating the Radio play later.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

David

P.S.  Please note that both opening monologues are first drafts only and once I finish writing all the places that make up the season (five) I will begin the task of editing everything.