I returned to my last screenplay this weekend -- like a remorseful murderer to the scene of his crime -- and realised that I do need to sit down and rewrite it some day soon. It's been my intention to turn this script into a low-budget digital movie for a long time now, but other stuff (such as work) has been getting in the way. That's still no excuse for not making the changes to the script that I've long thought about. So now I will. Really.

The script used to be called "The Dark", but it's now called "The Dark Places", and I've even gone to the step of registering a website called (drumroll, please!) www.thedarkplaces.com. Nice, innit? Except there's nothing there. Yet. There will be something there soon, though, honest.

Both thedarkplaces.com and thehiddenplaces.com are part of my work on an entire universe of stories that will hopefully carry over into my games as well -- post-Midgard, of course, as that game is a universe unto itself...based on Norse mythology, yes, but still its own entity. So to speak.

'Ambitious' is putting it mildly. But there's a natural unity to the stories I'm working on now, the stories that I hope to tell in the years to come. They're all tied into the hidden places, and the dark places, in our world...where the walls between the known and the unknown are thin.

We all know places like that. Think about it. Maybe it's your grandma's attic, or a cul-de-sac in your town, where garbage bags remain piled up for years... Perhaps it's an overgrown path in the forest where you played when you were a kid, or an abandoned cinema... Wherever your hidden place is, whichever dark place you fear, we all have them, somewhere. Maybe they're inside you, maybe it's right behind you. But these places have stories to tell, and I'm the one who will tell them.

So. Fun things in store. Just be patient. I promise...I'll make it worth your while.  ¶ 23:52