I am proud to say that I have been working, these past few weeks on a new and original screenplay. This is not a re work and polish job, this is indeed a brand spanking new screenplay that I am undertaking. It's tentatively titled: GENESIS. I have been writing this script for about two weeks now. I am writing it straight on my computer (which, if you know anything about me, is not my usual mode of operation). Another thing about this script, it is only my second feature length script (WE DIE YOUNG, being the other one) that's actually a straight up drama. I am forty eight pages into the script as we speak. It's the story of one man's definition of love. I know that sounds kind of corny, but that's what I feel about the in progress script right now. That's all I have right now, more later. ----------------------------- Wednesday June 11, 2003 6:49 P.M. EST. It took me awhile to start updating the in progress script again, mainly because shortly after my first update I went into a little battle with writers block. But, after getting restarted on the script again I feel comfortable with my current status. First of all, updating a script that is not a rewrite for me is kind of hard to do because I have no reference point to say where I'm going and how I want to get there. Granted I did outline the script, before starting it, but for me an outline is just something to fall back on if I get into a jam. Because after I get started on a script, I rarely look at my outline unless I need to remember specific ideas that I want to explore. Anyways, I'm having fun with the script even though I am running into a content problem, when I started this script I knew there was a chance that certain subject matter would be very explicit. I am trying to keep the script as real to the subject matter that I have chosen as possible without getting too overly explicit with the subject matter (did I just say the same thing about four times in a row?). When the script is finished my synopsis will shed more light on what I am babbling about. 'One man's definition of love', did I actually write that crap? I'm going to get away from that little description of the script and just say it's a modern day urban love story. ------------------------------ Sunday July 20, 2003 3:05 P.M. EST. Here we are, I am 82 pages in on this script, almost finished and I seem to be stuck on how to get to the actual finish. I have reached the last couple of points of my outline but I am kind of stuck on how to begin the end of the script. I see myself approximately ten or fifteen pages from the end but with no real way of getting over the hump. Earlier I wrote that I was worried about the subject matter, becoming too explicit, well that doesn't seem to be an issue any longer. Hopefully, I didn't edit myself when it came to subject matter and that I was just making more out of the explicitness (is that even a word) of the subject matter than it actually was. Or even better maybe the content is exactly how I intended but from the inside of the script looking out it's no big deal. ------------------------------ Thursday September 11, 2003 11: 24 A.M. EST. Just updating to say that I am still 82 pages in on the script. Which if you can tell from my last post means I haven't gotten anything done since then. This is truly a shame for I am convinced that if I just buckled down and tried to finish it would be done in a little more than a week to ten days. Even though I haven't added any pages since my last update I have tweaked with some of the dialogue in the previously written pages, it hasn't been a total wash. Anyway, I hope to get back into the script right now, because I don't want to lose the momentum I gained as I tweaked with the dialogue. That's it for now, next time I update I should have this thing finished. ------------------------------ Monday October 6, 2003 1:22 A. M. EST. Okay, see what happens when you put in the work, things get done. I started tweaking with the dialogue and the next thing you know, I'm working on new pages and then sixteen pages later, it's done. I feel kind of bad that it took so long tor this script to be completed when everything was right there to be finished. The exact way I finished the script is how I envisioned it ending in the very beginning. No surprises. Sorry. One thing is for sure, I have no idea on how my first attempt at serious drama has turned out. And when I say serious attempt at drama I mean, no action, no fantasy, very little violence. It's as real and as much soul searching I have ever done on a screenplay. Anyway, if you are keeping track a home, the script comes in at a very tight ninety-six pages. I have not as yet come up with a synopsis for the script yet, but the principle writing for the screenplay is done, hallelujah. Later, until the next time. ------------------------------ Monday October 13, 2003 3:17 P.M. EST.