

Day 271: Wrap Up on the Great American Pitch Fest
It’s the end of Memorial Day weekend, the end of the month and the end of my follow-ups subsequent to ScriptFest 2016 and the Great American Pitch Festival. A lot has happened in the week since my last blog, but I did do some on-site videos for ScriptFest that appeared on the The Screenwriter’s Journey Facebook page. If you haven’t seen them, I’ll give a brief recap of that weekend’s events to bring you up to speed. Scriptfest is a decidedly different beast than the Nashvill


Day 260: 1st Read of The Devil's Tramping Ground
I'm back from my first read of The Devil's Tramping Ground at Rewrites Writers Group. The reading went well, but what I've learned from these first 10 pages is that it is going to take some work to turn this non-linear story into a linear story. Some of the scenes are just too long as stand-alones. They worked in the non-linear format because they were broken up and scattered throughout the story. Now, I've got to figure out how to get that same information across in shorter


Day 258: Let's Catch Up
It's been a busy 3 weeks since the last post. Unfortunately, I haven't been busy with screenwriting. That's not necessarily a bad thing. For most of April, I was insanely busy with writing, rewriting, editing and cutting Come Ups and The Calling in anticipation of the Nashville Writer's Conference. With two requests for The Calling, it was an even more frenzied time with more rewrites and editing. I don't know what my exact page count was, but I think I can safely assume I mo