Monthly Archives: June 2010

In Limbo Land

So, I’m working on the step outline for a new screenplay.

And, I’m waiting for reviews to come back on “Windfall”…  Fully expect another draft of that project before I can query.

I’m considering going back to “Unknown Caller.”  It needs another rewrite but I lost interest in it when I started to write “Windfall.”

Yeah, I feel like I’m in some kind of “Limbo”, a hard place to be.    I am terrible at waiting and I’m looking for some distractions.

My printer is on its last legs…  It “drum light” has been flashing for over a year and it’s finally dying.    So I’m going to go to Staples and buy a new printer because the drum costs more than a comparable printer.  A distraction!

Distractions.  In the kitchen, the oven is also dying – the burners work but not the oven.  My dryer died last winter.  Hmm…

What would you do if everything started to die around you?  Maybe… perhaps…  Could there be a story here?

Am I desperate or what?

The Calm Before the Storm

Windfall has been sent out for review.  I had a burst of creativity and wrote the one-pager for the next MoviePoet contest.    So, now what?

Windfall will probably need some massaging but I’m pretty sure I’m close to sending out queries.  I might enter it in this month’s Script Savvy contest but money’s kind of tight right now.  I wish I had extra funds for entering contest.  Oh well, we play the cards we’re dealt!

In the meantime, I’m letting the creative juices simmer.   I really need to find a project to immerse myself in … another feature would be perfect!

I’m leaning towards a “fantasy”, something I’ve never written before.  I started to write out a step outline and if I can get to the end, that will be my next project.

Not sure yet about the title but right now, I’m thinking it will be “Finding _______”.  I haven’t decided what the second word is yet!

The lead will be a teen-aged boy, probably about aged 14.   Unless I change my mind because nothing is set in concrete at this stage.

Windfall

This week I will finish the SIXTH draft of Windfall.  Wow!  Six drafts in about seven months.  And every draft I feel is the last one until I send it out to my reader friends.  Wonder what they’re going to find this time.  Oh well, if there is to be a seventh, I’m sure it will be better than the sixth.  Will I ever hear the words.  “Faith, this is perfect.”?  Start querying!   Doubt it.

But, I’m not complaining,  I’m willing to do the work if it makes the story stronger.  If it increases my chances of having a feature shown at the movie theatres.

Over at MoviePoet, I’ve got to come up with a one-page script for this month’s challenge.  So far, I’m hitting a brick wall.    I’m about 2/3 of the way through reviewing the scripts for last month’s challenge.  My entry for that contest (A Thousand Words) was way out of my comfort zone so it’ll be interesting to see how I did.  It was a weird story but, it definitely had a beginning, middle, and end.

Write on!