Talos
( Ray Harryhausen's creation shown )
About a year ago, Alexander Hayden, a Greek writer whose English is not exactly fluent, runs an early draft of a script called TALOS by me in my capacity as a paid consultant.
Cool idea: Talos, a giant metal beast whose defeat by the sorceress Medea freed Jason and the Argonauts to return home victorious, awakens in the present-day fired by a millennias-old rage.
Anyway a couple of drafts later we agree to partner on the script. It still needs a lot of work (a LOT of work) but I liked the premise of an ancient robot resurfacing Godzilla-like in the modern day, who turns out to be a tragic King Kong by the end of the script.
Now my first draft is due May 1st and I'm stuck!!!!
Oh, I always get stuck, that's par for the course, but it always sucks to be stuck. Going from scene to outline, outline to scene, this works but that doesn't, that used to work, but won't now. It's too complicated, it's too simple. Yada yada yada.
So now I'm diligently avoiding work, but can't allow myself to leave the computer.
So, I'm journaling.
Anyway, I'm missing my regularly scheduled writer's group tonight to attend a Ray Bradbury "class" via The Learning Annex. Maybe that will give me the impetus to move on.
RB is in town quite a lot, but if you want to see him at the local library I swear it's like the Rose Parade with people camping out, so paying for the privilege seemed the best route, and while I'll miss my group, I and H. (she wanted to come, isn't that cool?) are looking forward to it.