More Screenplays Published on Kindle and Tonight's Writing

 So, I published two more of my screenplays on Kindle.

The first is Dweller.  It concerns a serpentine (but mostly amorphous) creature that swims out from the depths of Lake Michigan and terrorizes Chicago.

The protagonist is a police detective named Ralph Henson ( a combination of Ralph Nader and Jim Henson,m two of my favorite people). 

Basically, it's an insane combination of Bong Joon-Ho's The Host (2006) and John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing.  

I'm sure it will never get made, so I am publishing it on Kindle for anyone who wants to read it.

I wrote it from late 2008 to about spring of 2009.  

 

 

I also published the screenplay adaptation of Humansville that I wrote in 2011. 

After I got done writing MoMo, I decided to adapt Humansville into a screenplay because: 1.) it was an easy bit of writing for me to do,m 2.) I read in a volume of Screenwriter's Guide (from Writer's Digest... which, it looks like the last Screenwriter's and Playwright's Market they published was in 2009!) that, if you want Hollywood to get interested in optioning a book you wrote... make the deal sweeter for them and just adapt it yourself. That way, you save them time and money. They don't have to hire a writer to adapt your book, and they can pay you one fee that includes the rights to your book and your fee for adapting it (something you already did for free).

Anyhow, I just thought people might want to read the screenplay, as well as the book, to compare the two. Plus, well, if anyone important in Hollyweird actually does buy & read my book on Amazon, they'll then see that I already adapted it.

 

 

But I digress.

I've also decided (and I'll run this by my eternal guru, Timothy Scott) that at least two of the three novels involving my literary avatar, David Kemp, cannot be published in Kindle because they contain elements that may be... problematic... for a number of reasons.

Thus, sadly, it looks like (for now) the only David Kemp book I will be able to publish on Kindle is my first David Kemp novel, The Work. This was written in 2005 while I was finishing up grad school for the first time and living in my first apartment. It was very cathartic to write. Hopefully whoever reads it will find something cathartic in it for them as well.

Now, for tonight's writing.

I am on page 16 of Depravity.

I have fully developed both the protagonist and the antagonist, established the setting, the mythology and have gotten the inciting incident out of the way. 

But, man, this is what summer break is all about: writing until all hours of evening. What a joy it is to sit down at a desk, in front of a writing machine, and to create stories and characters (with lives). It's just such a beautiful thing to create art. 

And with that... 

Onward I write...