I have started a new writing project recently. I'm not ready to say what it is yet. But it's one that I've been considering for a long time, not least because I've received some urging from other people to do it, but up to now I've been avoiding it. It wasn't EXACTLY what I wanted to do, it seemed like a huge investment of time and effort, and ( Read more... )

A very rough, very unmoored scene coming from imagining for the Adonis sequels. I am very interested in exploring this idea that Pavilla, one of the villain characters, represents the damage caused by entitlement and dehumanizing other people, through giving her an obsession with Aidan. I'm trying to figure out how to create interaction between the ( Read more... )

This is an idea for the Adonis sequels, probably occuring in the third part. One thing I want to establish for the world building is that pregnancy is very different in this matriarchal culture. I think it would make sense for pregnancy to have much more of a space made for it, much more accomdation, but also that it's treated like a much more ( Read more... )

So I never actually posted about the results of my meeting with that producer. It actually went really great. She loved Adonis; she went on and on about all the thing she liked about it. Then she very gently explained to me how she didn't think it could get made right now. It was clear she was trying to be super nice about it, like she thought I ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I have my Skype meeting with the film executive who gave me this report of my Adonis script. I'm really excited, as this is a super positive step for me, but really nervous at the same time. All she said was she "wants to discuss Adonis and my writing career," so I'm not sure what to expect ( Read more... )

My most recent request to read Adonis resulted in the producer wanting to talk to me! CHECK OUT THIS REPORT:


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Got my Adonis screenplay requested for reading by another company ( Read more... )

So here's an odd, if pleasantly surprising, situation. As I mentioned, Adonis got a second reading request a month ago, that time from a literary management company called Energy Entertainment. That was very cool and a positive step, but a few days ago I got a decline for a meeting from them. I was disappointed, and frankly pretty bemused-- I ( Read more... )

There is a scene I'm planning for the sequel to Adonis. It has Aidan confessing to Diana how challenging he's finding the role of figurehead for their rebellion. How difficult it is to project the complete confidence, strength, and determination required to inspire the troops. He says he doesn't feel that way, and feels false for acting as if he ( Read more... )

I read a passage in Latin last night, and I found I had a shockingly strong emotion reaction to it ( Read more... )