I Blame My Wife

Marriage kills your discipline. Well, that's not true. It just gives you a million additional things to think about, so you never think about writing ever again. At least, not enough to do any.

So I blame my wife. :) *

But actually, I do have 23 pages of the Nightmare book adaptation done. It's going quite well, when it's going. I loves me my adaptation. It's like Michaelangelo and sculpting: I just cut away anything that isn't the movie.

In other news, David gave me some notes on my rom-com, so once I'm done with the adaptation, I have somewhere else to go. I'm not going there yet, because I'm still a little sick of that script, but eventually I will have to give it some final attention.

And finally, I have made my first dollar as a screenwriter. Really. $1.00.

I've had a short script on inktip.com for almost a year now, and after many other dead-end inquiries, these guys finally liked it enough to at least plan to produce it. There's no money in shorts, so they were only willing to part with a dollar for it.

But I don't care. It's a production credit (hopefully). And it's at least a tiny bit of validation. Writers need validation.

I've also noticed that adding an option (albeit a free one) to my profile on Inktip actually results in more hits for my other scripts. Thus, a "halo effect," if you will.

That's right: Shorts are the iPod of screenwriting, baby.

I'm such a geek.

Anyway, things are moving, if a little slowly. And also, despite my above complaint, marriage is great.

And yes, Greg, I know I'm supposed to do that 10-item list for which you tagged me. But you can't jump back into blogging after a two-month-long absence with something like that. You just can't.

* It's okay. She knows I love her. ↩