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Geek Force Utterz #063 - You’ve Got to Choose
Yesterday, I announced that Apple and View Askew would be leaving my Geek Force Five and that they would be replaced by Harry Potter and 01824 (my new text-based Webisodic). Reaction has been mixed, of course. Why give up View Askew, a production house that is still churning out films, for a franchise (Potter) that will only be newsworthy for a brief while longer, now that there are no new books coming out and only three more films? Why stop talking about Apple, a proven traffic-driving topic, to tell stories about a boring suburban town? And, if you’re going to make a change, why not go more generic with the topics and allow for greater flexibility and eliminate the need for big changes like this altogether?
Today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz aims to answer those questions, or to at least begin to. As always, you can listen in via the embed above or by visiting Utterli.com.
Geek Force Five Now Headquartered in the 01824
For the first time ever, the fifth member of my Geek Force Five will be a place instead of a person. Beginning next Monday, January 12, GeekForceFive.com will play host to a new, text-based Webisodic series named for the zip code of the town I grew up in. 01824 will chronicle the lives of the residents of my fictional version of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Those who have read Those Little Bastads or worked with me in any fiction workshop over the last few years will be familiar with some of the characters I’ll be taking a look at in the first few months—Robin, Carl, and Ian—but you needn’t know anything about my writing to jump on board. All you need is a desire for a good yarn.
The series will run five days a week and will operate on a schedule similar to that of a television season. During breaks, it’s my intention to fill the void with stories on the real Chelmsford, particularly the real Chelmsford of the early 1990s, the inspiration for all of the fiction I’ve been working on for the past five-to-ten years. If you’re from Chelmsford yourself, or you have a story about someone who is, and you’d like to share that story here, please drop me a note at .
