I don't have time to go into detail, but I will say that the Friday-through-Sunday story development workshop I attended week before last at the annual NALIP Conference under Harrison Reiner and Marilyn Atlas's extremely effective professional mentorship proved to be an intense, dynamic, inspiring, exhilarating, productive, and invaluable ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I fly out to Los Angeles to visit with friends for a few days before heading to Long Beach on Thursday for the annual NALIP Conference, which will run through Sunday ( Read more... )

Yesterday I submitted my screenplay Sins of the Heart, along with my application to participate in our local government film fund's screenplay rewriting lab, which is scheduled to run August 1-5 from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. each day ( Read more... )

Someone on a writing list I belong to asked:

So, I'm intrigued, did you already have notes and ideas to work from, or were you given an outline of what the [Lab] wanted? Or was it something you'd been thinking about for a while? Or, are you just one of those people that with a spark of an idea you just sit down and write until it's finished?

And ( Read more... )

Thirteen days ago, I set out to write the first draft of my Traps screenplay in no more than two weeks.

Today, I wrote The End on page 93, leaving me an entire day to revise and polish before I have to e-mail the script in (by no later than the end of the day tomorrow) so my assigned mentor has sufficient time to read and analyze it before the ( Read more... )

Since the middle of last week, I've been developing the storyline for my screenplay entitled Traps, which I committed to delivering to the Latino Writers Lab by the 29th of April at the latest. I'm happy to say I've managed to get most of the principal characters and plot elements worked out, at least preliminarily ( Read more... )

So yesterday I get a phonecall from Kathryn Galán, the Executive Director of NALIP (the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, of which I've been a member for about a year), to let me know that I've been accepted to the Latino Writers Lab, which will take place in New York from Wednesday, May 4 through Sunday, May 8 at the Roger ( Read more... )