Brad Vance Author

Right here at this link. I’m focusing on developmental editing now. I’ve been teaching a small novel writing class, and I’m getting a lot of pleasure out of helping people take “an idea I’ve had for a while,” and turn it into a full fledged novel. I also enjoy helping writers tweak a first draft, giving them feedback they can use to create a much stronger version. Please spread the word! [MORE]

Please share this! I’m trying to raise $5,000 for a high powered editing computer, software, lighting/camera equipment, and other costs for the next five episodes. If I raise more than that, it’ll PAY CAST AND CREW! [MORE]

Watch episode 1 of “Crunch” HERE on Vimeo! I edited this trailer using the final MP4 file, the music clips, and some voiceover I recorded on my Snowball mike. All done using an old version of Camtasia! So just imagine what I can do when I get a “real” editing setup for Episode 2 🙂 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Qke_yEN8mtj4N2_UmR7yuO1u2CvAmlO4 The Kickstarter goal for future episodes is a (relatively modest by KS film standards) $5,000, enough to get a good editing PC, Creative Cloud for a year, and pay for the Lumix G7 and memory card I’ve already put on the credit card 🙂 If I can raise more than that, people working on the show (and it is a show now) will get PAID! I’ll be sure to keep you posted, and to flog the Kickstarter MERCILESSLY when it goes [MORE]

Watch it here! Live on Vimeo 🙂 “An outsourced tech worker [ME!] turns his basement into six tiny, Hong Kong style living quarters, and rents them out to desperate [MORE]

Here’s the link! LOGLINE: A would-be day trader becomes obsessed with a cryptocurrency that uses brain matter as its storage and processing system. Crunch still in post production, thus the overall silence on here… Much propaganda to come when I get the final file! [MORE]

I had a pretty bad depression a few weeks ago. A slump is typical near/at Dark O’Clock, but this one really sucked. The only thing that cheered me up was looking at everything I’ve done this year. And, just as importantly, I think, the things I stopped doing because I was beating my head against a wall. Since January I have: Written, workshopped, rewritten, subbed for coverage, rerewritten, a complete screenplay, the adaptation of A Little Too Broken. My first screenplay, and it finaled on /r/screenwriting’s 2017 comp, Semifinaled at Diverse Voices, Quarterfinaled at WeScreenplay, and Quarterfinaled at Shore Scripts. All in the face of a lot of wizened grizzled “expert advice” like “humba dumba your first script will be shit humba dumba, and  your second and your third humba.” Fuck you, old man (he said, having just turned 55)! I don’t need your negatude! Wrote, Directed, Produced and Acted in CRUNCH, the pilot episode of a web series! There [MORE]

Adobe Premiere Pro ate the project file, and my editor had to start over… So yeah. “Crunch” episode one is still coming to a device near you, just not sure when. I’m pretty frozen on doing anything with the next episode until this one gets out in the world. And, it was the darkest dark of Dark O’Clock yesterday, the time when my creativity is at its lowest, so not much else going on. I dream of the day I’m rich enough to cancel Winter – to just get on a plane and spend the three worst months of it on a tropical island… sun sun sun, sea sea sea, long warm [MORE]

Here’s the link on Google Drive! A Modest Proposal retake, for our modern economy. It’s been through my screenwriting group and it’s a strong script. 20 pages, it’s long for a short, I know. Down from 23 though! The adage I read is that if you can’t tell the story in less than 20 minutes, it probably needs to be a feature. My group suggested I go there with this, as they did with another piece in progress, but fuck! I can’t! I need to focus on Stabitha and make some fucking money, of which I have none, before I spend time on long shots like spec scripts! The money wolves are baying hard at my heels, and I didn’t get shit done on Stabbers this last week, with clinical depression setting in hard. Not because of anything I did wrong, for once, and on maximum mood stabilizer dose, like seizure-level dose. Just because winter, and broke. I’m using CBD, the THC-free cannabis extract, and it’s keeping the wolves from taking any flesh off [MORE]

I did this Ethereum design a ways back, put it up on RedBubble but that was it. Teespring just made it a lot easier to use their designer tools, so now I put it up there as well. It’s a real ETH QR code, with the blocks arranged to spell Ethereum (I know, you can read!) with the ETH diamond in the middle. Then, I worked with Bey Deckard to execute (heh) my idea for a T shirt for Our Times. So order yours now! The Bradish Empire expands again! More ideas to [MORE]