Just submitted Personal Demons to Horror Screenings Film Festival Bloody Mirror via Film Freeway.
Their final deadline is March 17th, so I figured I'd better jump on it.
This is my 3rd submission for Personal Demons (or, really, for any of my scripts) in 2026.
Last summer I bought a bunch of cheap art supplies (canvases, brushes, paints, etc.) from the Dollar Tree in an effort to start painting.
Now, I've never fancied myself anything of a visual (drawing, painting, etc.) artist, but I've always lamented the fact that I've never seriously tried my hand at any of these artistic facets.
Well, all those painting supplies sit in a storage facility, unused after about half a year.
Now, this isn't due to laziness or lack of interest.
It's just that I knew I needed more preparation before I dove into painting.
I already have my first few paintings planned out (the visuals and the story, as it were), now I just need to sketch them first, then transfer them onto the canvas.
I also recently found out that they have good, cheap aisles easels at Five Below.
Now, I know this won't be the first time I've entertained interest in a tangible visual art medium and never started it (I still have all the modeling clay, sculpting tools and Play-Doh from all the years I said I would sculpt... which I still fully intend on doing), but, for whatever reason, this time I just feel more inspired and more... I don't know... ready.
We shall see.
Obviously, pictures of the finished pieces (which I am fully expecting to be either garbage, or to fall very far short of expectations) will be posted upon completion.
Just submitted Personal Demons to my first film fests of 2026.
I submitted it to the Bloodstained Indie Film Festival: Sci-Fi Horror Action and the Spring Screams Film Festival.
And, of course, I have my next four submissions already mapped out for the next few months.
A.I. has done it again.
Here is the one-sheet (mock poster) for Mall Santa that I will be using to submit it to film festivals and screenplay competitions, pitch it to producers and agents and to use as my handout at PitchFests (if I ever do attend an in-person one).
I rather like this image.
It might give me the inspiration I need to finish writing this tonight.
I am about on page 65 of Mall Santa.
Sadly, I am at the climatic end of the film.
I don't know why, but my horror scripts (the last two I've written) seem to fall short of the 90-page minimum Hollywood seems to prefer for a movie.
But I am not discouraged.
When the story is done telling itself, it will end.
And if it is short (80 mins or so) then whoever (hopefully) produces this movie should be glad. If the movie premiers in theaters, that will mean more showings and more ticket sales per day. If it goes straight to streaming, well, then the rules are quite different.
No matter what, I am loving what I am writing thus far.
I cannot wait until this script sees its organic conclusion sometime in the next day or so.
I am also not disappointed that I did not finish this screenplay before Christmas.
I wrote most of it before Christmas. And I am finishing it during that festive corridor between Christmas and the New Year, when the holiday spirit is still strong in most people and celebrations are still taking place, decorations are still up, etc.
As long as I finish this before winter break concludes, I will be content.
Just wrote a few scenes that I really love in Mall Santa tonight.
I wrote some scenes that will definitely get this movie an R-rating.
Maybe even an unrated release.
I am now on page 41.
I am loving this script and how it is flowing out of me.
