

Day 310: New Feedback
While I did spend a portion of the 4th of July Weekend partaking of bar-b-que and fireworks, I did also manage to get a couple of scripts out for feedback from new readers. The results came back quickly and were very favorable. No one had any questions about "The Calling." As you may recall, I had several earlier readers express a certain amount of confusion over the ending. One potential producer even indicated he passed on the script because of the 'wild and out there' endi


Day 309: Overcoming Technical Difficulties
I had anticipated relaxing and enjoying the extended 4th of July Weekend, putting writing aside for a few days. Well, I managed to put the writing away, but there was a considerable amount of energy expended on trying to get the latest blogs up on the website. There was some time set aside for more traditional activities such as bar-b-que and fireworks, but a lot of the weekend was dealing with technology that didn't work. Since I'm away from my 'traditional' writing/working


Day 305: Entered the Screencraft Horror Competition
It's the start of a new month and there is no better way to kick it off than by entering a screenplay contest. in this case, I entered Screencraft.org's Horror Competition with The Calling. What makes this entry particularly sweet is that I had to do some quick rewrites on the ending with only about 48 hours to go before the deadline. Those rewrites turned out to be fairly simple. In fact, simplicity was the key. My original ending had turned out to be too complicated and rea


Day 304: End of Month Tally
After an exciting previous two months, June was more than a let down. I did manage to meet and exceed my writing goal. I hit around 60 pages, maybe a little more, for the month. That's double my required minimum, but almost all of that writing was concentrated in just a few days, usually Thursdays. I needed fresh pages for the Rewrites Workshop each week, and I would wait until Thursday and spend the day pounding the keyboard and hitting print just before heading to the works