Good evening and welcome to conversations from the abyss.

What you're about to hear is a conversation between two living things.

For real, tonight's episode, Writing from the Abyss.

Hey, what's up buddy?

How's it going, Graham?

Good.

Ladies and gentlemen, Graham Elway.

Hello, thank you, conversations from the abyssers.

So we wanted to just, I wanted to just ask you some questions about why you decided to do this? I don't feel like answering

any questions. It's so great you ask me to do this and now you're saying no I'm

changing my mind. I love it. You know I've always was a fan growing up of like short stories and like the

Twilight Zone which I loved and I love that each episode created this little world

in a short amount of time. Now Spielberg tried to do it with amazing stories but they were

more missed than hit on those. Really when you go back to the classics, even like outer limits

in Twilight Zone and Tails from the Dark Side. Remember that show? I liked that as well.

And you and I coming up an indie film world, we would make a lot of short films.

And as you know, there's two types of short films. There's a

sketch type which is you know just kind of one premise and played for laughs or whatever and then

there's it has like a big end punchline thing. Yep, yep.

Then there's the actual short film that has a beginning, a middle, and an end, a character

arcs, and all the things that feature films have just in a shorter condensed amount of time.

Like the difference between a short story and a novel. Now a

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