Tonight's Writing

 Just finished synthesizing a three-act outline (in accordance with Syd Fields' three-act structural story beats) for my first screenplay concerning my literary avatar, David Kemp.

It is entitled Real Men Break Things.

I've had that title for about 21 years, but have never really done anything with it.

I know I've always wanted that title to go to a screenplay featuring David Kemp.

At first (meaning late last year, earlier this year) I threw a bunch of random events (loosely linear and spanning the course of about 8 years) onto an outline and thought I'd write this screenplay with no real structure, narrative drive or purpose (other than the therapeutic art of writing something autobiographical). 

However, I have indeed decided to do something more with this title and story.

I'm not going to give too much away (that is between myself and my forever first-reader, Tim Scott), but this is about an emotional arc Kemp goes through in an effort to recapture his individuality and solidarity in the face of an emotionally opposing force. 

Vague, I know, but, like I said, I don't want to give too much away.

But this story will explicate a time in my life (nearly 9 years ago now) that was simultaneously one of the most joyous and emotionally & psychologically wrenching periods in my life. 

Don't know when I will have time to write this (perhaps during the school year, as it will not take much out of me, creatively,  as all I have to do is recall scenes and dialog from memory). But I will write this after Depravity (my latest horror script) and after I finish Mall Santa, but before I embark on my two most treasured and ambitious scripts: Personal Demons 3 and State of the Art (a cyber-gothic blitzkrieg of futuristic horror that has lived, rent-free, in my imagination since I was fifteen). 

It feels good to have so many projects ahead of me. 

I will literally never run out of things to write about.

I wont say that writer's block is a myth (because, for some people, it is very real), but I have never experienced it. 

It's like cryptids: I am certain they are real, but I have not yet encountered them.