I've already written an outline (my 4th so far... when finished I should have my next seven scripts outlined in accordance with Hollywood's three-act structure) for a script I hope to write over the summer as I'm one foot out the door to go see a late night movie (seeing an 11:20pm showing of Neighbors 2).
Tomorrow I plan to crank out a few more outlines, finally clean off my digital voice recorder of all my writing notes and do some submitting... On that last note, how pathetic is it that I've had Fade In's Agents Guide for nearly six months now and have done no submitting?! The year is nearly half over and I've wasted all this time.
Then again, I've also been scared of submitting queries for Personal Demons until I do some re-writing and integrate some of the suggestions the Tracking Board gave me in their coverage.
That's the next thing: once I get done submitting and writing my outlines, I cannot wait to begin re-reading and re-writing some scripts that I haven't touched in nearly ten years (for some of them it's been over ten years).
It's also hard to believe that I've been keeping this blog for three years now.
Here's something to contemplate until my next blog:
Reading books about writers who are writing and trying to get their writing out there is not only hugely inspiration and great motivation (and for a writer, incredibly entertaining).
Right now I'm reading A Dead Man's Memoir by Mikhail Bulgakov.
But on that same token I would recommend:
- Ask the Dust, by John Fante
- A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
- Hollywood, by Charles Bukowski
- Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Secret Garden, Secret Window, by Stephen King
- The Immaculate, by Mark Morris
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