MoMo: Survival Published on Kindle

 So... I did indeed publish MoMo: Survival on Kindle just now.,

I even created a series for it on Kindle.

This is the first sequel I ever wrote. And the thing is... I didn't even intend on writing a sequel to MoMo. MoMo's story was not necessarily conclusive, but was meant to only be one story.

But I love when happy accidents happen organically.

 In mid-summer 2011 (a few months after finishing MoMo), I decided to sit down and write what I thought should be the first scene or two for a sequel to MoMo. I wound up loving what I wrote (that sounds narcissistic, I apologize) so much and realized that there was more story to tell.

Oddly, enough, though, for a variety of reasons, I did not come back to this script and complete it until May of 2015 (when I was in a much better headspace, in all regards).  

Regardless, this was the last screenplay I completed without using an outline that strictly adheres to Syd Fields' three-act structure. 

This is also the final screenplay I completed before Personal Demons.

But, in the end, this screenplay means a lot to me because MoMo (the first pure non-horror screenplay I wrote) means a lot to me and it was just a good feeling to finish his story and give him a happy ending.

 

 

Also, I was having lunch with an old friend from high school (we've known each other now 32 years!) and he put into words something that I was already thinking. He said that putting my work up on Kindle (specifically, my screenplays) was helping to protect the copyright of the work. And I believe he's right.  Sure, I copyright everything I write with the Library of Congress. And I register everything I am actively sending out (to film fests and via query letter to agents & producers) with the Writer Guild of America, West (WGAw, which most people unofficially refer to as the "screenwriter's guild"). And that helps me sleep better at night. However, if any agent, producer, or any nefarious judge (at any of these film fests I submit my script to) has any designs on copying or appropriating my idea, well, I can just point whatever lawyer I engage to my Kindle page and say, "If the Library of Congress and WGAw isn't good enough for a judge and jury, let them look to Amazon and see the publishing date there."

Triple protection for your ideas and art is a wonderfully comforting thing.