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Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:26:20 +0000 (UTC)
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

The process has really been an interesting one...this was originally
going to be just a chance to publish the scripts and get them all out
there, but it's grown much past that.  I don't think there has ever
been this detailed an examination of the making of the show from the
inside before, as brought out now through the general introductions and
episodic discussions in the books.  There's stuff in here nobody's ever
heard about before, all the real behind-the-scenes stuff.

I'm now three books into this thing, and the volume one intro is now
almost 14,000 words in length, volume two is over 15,000 words, and the
intro I'm currently writing to volume three is already at 13,000 words
and I'm still only about two-thirds through the darned thing.  Given
that the average book is 80K to 100K in length, by the time I'm
finished writing intros for all these books there will be almost enough
for two volumes just on the making of B5.

I'd always originally intended to one day write the Making of B5 as its
own book...but now it looks like I'm close to writing that book now, on
the installment plan....

jms