So earlier this week, I got a very encouraging email from my producer contact! Bernie and I sent her our Hood pilot at the beginning of the month, and she read it right away and gave a very positive response! She not only really likes it, she thinks it has potential in the current market. I am ridiculously pleased, as our effort was to create ( Read more... )

I spent the day planning a piece, which is definitely necessary writing work, but it did not result in anything postable. So I'm posting another Hood scene to stand in. This occurs directly after Day #7 - Let the Grown Ups Handle It.Also, I got encouraging news about the Hood pilot yesterday, so this is in a way to celebrate that. More on this ( Read more... )

I think I have completed the Hood pilot! I'm really glad. I've been working away on relatively minor edits that need to convey a lot with a little, so I've been tweaking them over and over again, but I think I'm at a place where I'm satisfied. Good thing, too, as today is the day I said I'd be sending it along. That's a pretty big accomplishment ( Read more... )

Spent most of the day editing the Hood pilot, not only to cut it down but also to add in all the stuff that was recommended for inclusion in the reading. It seemed easier to reduce to a conventional hour-long page count than to pad it out to two hours, at least in the limited amount of time I have left. Unfortunately it's still pretty long at 65 ( Read more... )

So here's where attempting to apply the 31P31D system to support my current work plan breaks down. If I'm in the process of drafting a new project that I've already got a plan for, it provides really helpful structure to make me actually get words on the page. But if I'm in a different stage of the writing process, like outlining or editing, it's ( Read more... )

Today's scene is in fact one I wrote today. It's one of the last scenes I have left to draft for the Hood pilot, which I need to have a solid and serviceable first version of for this Friday ( Read more... )

Today I worked on an important scene for Hood, my Robin Hood-themed heist show pilot. But scene I wrote was probably the emotional climax for the whole piece, so it's not something I want to post in isolation. Those belong in context, at least when I'm close to finishing the whole piece. (Honestly, I don't know how many people actually read these ( Read more... )

I hesitate to say it for fear of jinxing it or speaking too soon, but I think I can finally declare that I've recovered from the most intense burnout period of my life. It took almost two months, but I actually think I feel like my old self again, with my old energy and productivity. I confess I still feel fragile, like if things get tougher I may ( Read more... )

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It's that time of year that I think making a list of all my projects, in the order in which they are should be prioritized, would be a solid idea. Plus I like to let people know all the cool stuff I'm working on. They are organized by which month's ending I need to have them done:

July

Editing the Mrs. Hawking pilot. In a very good meeting with ( Read more... )