Surety in screenwriting is something that I’ve watched drop off the radar as of late. It might be that most of the scripts I read come from first-timers or those considered amateurs, but I believe there is a lesson here to be learned by all.
If you are interested in having me speak on a panel for your horror festival or convention about my book, horror screenwriting in general, or to get a screening of The Cursed, please contact me by leaving a comment on this post. I am soliciting any and all takers right now for the late 2009-2010 season.
I’m sure most of you out there have written a poem or two in your lifetimes. Mine didn’t get out there very far because I thought they were puerile and a waste of paper. It’s been years since I’ve written any poetry. In a phrase, it sucked.
Life has an interesting way of pointing things out to you when you least expect or want it. Like a good friend that gives advice, you can choose to listen to it or nod, smile, and then file it in the mental circular bin. This time, I am choosing to listen to that advice life is giving me.
Just another friendly reminder that National Novel Writing Month is approaching fast. Some of you may be scratching your heads and thinking, “What, it’s six months away!”
The bound galleys for Horror Screenwriting: The Nature of Fear have just come in! If you’re not familiar with them, this is the last step in the printing process prior to going to printing a full batch. This is also my last chance, as well as my editor’s, to catch any mistakes and correct them.
It’s fun sometimes to kick back as a writer and do some pie-in-the-sky hypothesizing about something you’d absolutely love to work on. This is, of course, frowned down upon by some, but to them I give a hearty raspberry and move on. It doesn’t hurt to dream, and some of my best writing comes out of shooting for that elusive moon. So what are my dream writing gigs? Some of you may already know, but I’ll lay them all out here anyway.
A lot of different things seem to be happening all at once regarding the book today. It seems a bit overwhelming, but I’ll try to get through it all.
From time to time, I get asked where my ideas for my horror stories come from. Over and over it’s almost the same kind of answer: I’m not entirely sure, but it’s somewhere in my head brewing away.
I’ve come down with a bit of a cold as of late. Thankfully this phase of the book prep was finished over the weekend, which gives me a little time to go back and blow the dust off some screenplays that have been beckoning me to finish them.
