Solace Creek Site Network Blog » People http://solacecreek.net/blog Updates and Factoids in the Solace Creek Site Network Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:21:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Character Quote from the Solace Creek Stories http://solacecreek.net/blog/2006/10/character-quote-from-the-solace-creek-stories-4/ http://solacecreek.net/blog/2006/10/character-quote-from-the-solace-creek-stories-4/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:41:36 +0000 ronchalice http://solacecreek.net/blog/?p=38 “If you can’t say anything good about someone, you must be a reporter.”  - Detective Alan McKean in Love Your Eyes.

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“The human being is one of the few species, if not the only species where the parasites can be found at the top of the food chain.  There are those who produce nothing, who contribute nothing, yet continue to drain the resources and vitality of those who are productive, and who contribute greatly.  The largest mosquito in the known universe may be the dealmaker… the acquisition specialist who destroys companies and livelihoods in a clouded flurry of unregulated, uncontrollable, and untaxed cash.”

Leo Wolski, Metro Editor, Boulder-Springs Journal.

]]> http://solacecreek.net/blog/2006/09/character-quote-from-the-solace-creek-stories-3/feed/ 0 Character Quotes from the Solace Creek Stories http://solacecreek.net/blog/2006/04/character-quotes-from-the-solace-creek-stories/ http://solacecreek.net/blog/2006/04/character-quotes-from-the-solace-creek-stories/#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:40:42 +0000 Administrator http://solacecreek.net/blog/?p=29 “I only hit him once,” Henry said.

“But you hit him with a car,” Andrea replied flatly.

“But it was only one time.”

“It was a very big car.”

“He was a big man.”

“How did it feel when you hit him.”

“Kind of squishy.”

At this, Andrea was somewhat taken aback.  She struggled slightly to retain a cool, calm, and emotionless façade.

“I meant how did you feel when you hit him?”

“Like I wanted to hit him again.”

- conversation between Psychologist Andrea Bellows, and Henry Lighthead

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- Perseus Cade, Founder of Acolytica, to billionaire businessman Damien Grade, and Geoffrey Fynch, CEO of BeriCraft Aviation

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“Men are like blisters. It usually takes hard work to get them, and once you have ‘em they’re mostly a pain.”

–Bernadette (Bernie) Piat, Disk Jockey for KZUD 88.2 Solace Creek

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]]> http://solacecreek.net/blog/2006/04/character-quote-from-the-solace-creek-stories/feed/ 0 How Catherine Combes Came to Be http://solacecreek.net/blog/2006/03/how-catherine-combes-came-to-be/ http://solacecreek.net/blog/2006/03/how-catherine-combes-came-to-be/#comments Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:42:30 +0000 ronchalice http://solacecreek.net/blog/?p=16 A character reference to the Solace Creek Stories

Catherine Combes, the six-foot five inch former basketball star, now a Boulder-Springs Metroplex police detective, is a key player in many of the  Solace Creek Stories.

An interesting irony is that the voters of Colorado (excuse me, could that be a tinge of red in the neck area?) brought her into existence on the evening of November 3, 1992, when the election results for the horrid Amendment 2 were announced on television.

I had just completed a screenplay “Love Your Eyes” featuring a male detective named Harper. The script was circulating on that fateful November evening. When the results were announced, the immediate reaction from creative communities world-wide, Hollywood, New York, Toronto, Berlin, etc was “We won’t touch ANYTHING from Colorado!”

That night, with the help of global search and replace, Jess Harper became Catherine Combes, and some new scenes were added to build her character. Interestingly, Harper is back in the updated version of Love Your Eyes as Jesse Hartwood, Catherine’s boss.

She’s become a close friend over the years and I have a large acrylic painting of her in my office, looking over my shoulder as I process words…

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She is a close friend of Catherine Combes.

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this site is ficticious, any resemblance to real persons or places is coincidental.

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