04.28.09

Whurps.

Now for the usual blogger mea culpa:

  1. I haven’t been posting very often.
  2. I haven’t updated my short story reading/reviewing.
  3. I haven’t written 100pgs of scripted material for ScriptFrenzy.

And now for the excuses, well, just one excuse really, I have been learning.  For real:

  1. I discovered two new blogs: GoIntoTheStory and ScriptShadow.  I’ve been feeding on the juices from these bloggers’ mindgrapes, and it is good.
  2. I’ve been reading spec scripts!  Lots of them.
  3. I’ve been developing story ideas, which is easy to do once you’re immersed in the loglines of selling scripts.  You get an idea of the concepts that turn studios into vomitting ATM machines.  Hint-hint: most of these concepts suck ballz (from a quasi-pretentious-over-educated perspective), i.e. “A widower becomes a poonhound at a retirement community” or “A successful, but lonely lawyer finds true love in a crazy ice cream truck driver.”
  4. A phone call from a friend prompted me to re-examine my cynical, gold-digging, lowest-common-denomenator story ideas and give them real emotional meatiness.
  5. And finally, I’ve been lost.  Completely and utterly unsure of myself in every regard as a writer.  But that’s okay because (refer to No. 4) I have breathed new life into my two big stories and they are starting to come together.

So what’s next:

  1. I’ll post more often.
  2. I’m going to do a bi-weekly post of everything I’ve read recently.
  3. I’ll just have my own ScriptFrenzy in the next couple of months.

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