The first 7 days of 2010 are in the books, and I can’t complain about a one
of ‘em. The clock’s just ticked past midnight, but about 20 minutes ago I
got a call from the film producer I’ve been dealing with about Visions of
Sarah, and there was some pretty positive news to report. He’s been working
primarily on financing, and we got good news earlier in the week about
additional investors looking to come on board. Today, he was contacted by a
casting director about three actors (including the lead male, who I had in
mind while writing the script), and was all-but guaranteed she could put
scripts into the hands of all three by early next week. Considering that for
one of the top three roles we’ve targeted an Academy Award winner, that was
a pretty good exchange they had today. I almost wish it was Monday already,
so I could sit around waiting for an update after they talk some more. Well,
okay, maybe not *that* desperate for Monday to arrive, after all, there’s
playoff football this weekend, but still…every step forward the studio
takes, Visions gets that much closer to being made.
Got a thumbs-up from the editor who assigned me my last freelance. Always
happy to beat a deadline, and that one went in a week early. The sequel
script to my Everglades slasher flick is past the 2/3 stage now, after I
hadda do a few rewrites to fix a continuity issue and set up something
necessary for the climax. The holidays really set me back on that, I thought
I’d be done by now. But there’s no rush on it, and it’s first-draft only
anyway, so taking some more time isn’t much of a concern.
Speaking of screenplays, when it rains, it pours. And, that’s *never* a bad
thing. At least, not when it comes to the creative stuff. Since I’d begun
working on this particular script, I hadn’t given much thought to other
stuff floating around in my head. Why? Because there wasn’t much floating
around. For one of the few times in my life, I didn’t have a pad full of
notes getting filled up concerning the next thing I wanted to do. I didn’t
have anything on the horizon, so to speak, and that’s rare. Sure enough, I
knock out that freelance, get back to work on the slasher sequel, and then I
read a story on one of my e-mail lists, which spurred a firestorm of ideas.
I spent Tuesday night thinking about plotlines and characters and over the
course of the next 48 hours, almost the entire story laid itself out in my
head. I don’t even know if I’ll get to start work on that this month, but it’s
nice having it out there in front of me, waiting.
And finally, had a good idea for a new short story, which I spent last night
outlining. I’m anxious to get onto that, because I’ve been in touch with
some local talent here in S. Florida about the audio book project I’ve got
in the works with fellow author Frank Wales. I think we’re going to be able
to start reviewing talent for that project sometime during February, if not
sooner. Biggest problem there isn’t gonna be finding the talent, or getting
top-notch recording. I think it’s gonna be recording all the choices we
have, and then being forced to whittle the list down to soemthing
manageable.
Thousand page audio book anthology, anyone???
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