William Kuechenberg
To answer your first question, it's pronounced "koochin-burg."
To answer your second question, yes, of course I'd be delighted to tell you more about myself, thank you. Originally from outside of Chicagoland, I have an inexhaustible Midwestern work ethic, an intimate familiarity with poverty, and a really harsh Chicago accent. I write in many different genres, though I have a particular penchant for magical-realist quasi-surrealist stories taking place in richly realized worlds -- and if there's a horror dimension to it, all the better.
Like Clive Barker, James Joyce, and Kurt Vonnegut, my fundamental artistic fascination interest is where the mythic and the mundane intersect, where the profane meets the profound.
Comedy is my second great artistic love: my stylistic comedic ideal is a rich, chocolatey core of easily-digestible lowbrow humor with a thin candy shell of smart jokes and esoteric references.
My passion for storytelling drives me. I've won several awards for my writing and filmmaking, including finishing in the Top 50 of the Academy Nicholls Screenwriting Fellowship. I wrote comedy professionally with Cracked.com as a columnist for several years. I live my life so that I will write and direct film professionally.
Let's make something together.
WINDY
CITY
BLACKOUT
Sci-Fi - Western - Feature
When the robotic defenses of post-apocalyptic Chicago's last free city suddenly stop working, an enigmatic scout, a fast-talking comm officer, and a bitter scientist must travel to reactivate them before barbarians destroy their home.
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