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. ↩
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Welcome back kid!
It's so cool your short's being optioned -- it's like you say, it's a beginning and can lead to bigger things.
Looking forward to the adaptation script.
Wives are made for blaming! I checked out the agendafilms. They look sharp. Good luck.
I know David. He turned me into a blogger. I'm a screenwriter who's never made even a buck at it. The dismal crew came in the shop (java149) a bunch while filming, and we set up shop on the set a few saturdays. Trying my best to get out of the restaurant bizz - it blows.
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