Our screenplay has made it to the semifinals. We're one of 12 scripts in the Comedy category. There are three cash prizes in that category (none of them huge, but whatever) and three sets of various numbers of chances to pitch your script to bigwigs. And the top 50 scripts (which I think we're in now) are read by a specific talent agency who may ( ( Read more... )

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To anybody who might be watching this space for "Mockingbird" updates... I will probably be posting Chapter 10 early for a couple of reasons. Reason 1 is that I have it back from final beta and so it will be ready earlier than anticipated, and Reason 2, which is my main one, is that I'm leaving town Thursday afternoon for a wedding in BFCalifornia ( Read more... )

Last night I finished my draft of the CHAPTER OF DOOM!! Three weeks that chapter took me, or a little less. Definitely the most challenging so far. One scene went through three full iterations before it came out in the right shape. That last one, though, gives me hope for Chapter 5 because it was the first of the ones I'd done heavy pre-writing on ( Read more... )

I tell you what, if I could make my life be like this weekend all the time, I would be so happy. I never cease to be impressed by how productive and smart I can be when I get in the right situations with the right people ( Read more... )

Those of you who have known me a while know that I have written a novel with one of my best friends, Debbie. This week was our 5th anniversary of starting the project. We spent about a year and a half outlining and writing the first draft, then over the course of the next two years edited it, shopped it around to a gazillion agents, edited it again ( Read more... )

I guess that's not entirely true. I have accomplished TV. Finished up Season 3 of Hustle this week, courtesy of baylorsr's TiVo. Last night and today I've indulged my inner fuck-up spy wannabe with Season 2 of MI-5/Spooks. Ergo: icon. Must say, these DVDs have the most annoying interface ever. Still, the Tom Quinny angst is worth it ( Read more... )

What a surprise, our latest targeted agent--who's the first to get the re-revised manuscript--has rejected us. At least she did it quickly so we can get on with the fun of the targeting of new agents, the tedious preparation of ever-more queries, and then the fun anticiption of even more rejection ( Read more... )

Seriously, Debbie and I amaze me sometimes ( Read more... )

I'm still here. I'm just at an utter lack of anything overtly interesting to say. I mean, I could go on for a good few screens about how I broke in the dry/wet vac last night and how my apartment smelled all clean and wonderful, and how Debbie spent nearly two hours there without sneezing once (the cats were locked in the bedroom)... But however ( Read more... )