I am on deadline. I have a manuscript due…soon. As in: two-weeks-from-today-soon. Granted it is a first draft that is due to my editor but every author knows that a first draft that is meant to go to an editor isn’t an actual first draft. An actual first draft contains Continue Reading →
Quiet? As a church mouse. Busy? Yes. As for television the past two weeks I completed a pilot I’ve been working on for a while. I also reworked/tweeked a pilot that I love. Both are projects I think are special in their own way. As for books, I may have Continue Reading →
Today, I start on the new project. I can’t say much, because, well, for me talking about a project before it feels solid somehow disturbs the momentum. Kind of like a pressure cooker, you don’t take the lid off if you want whatever is inside to come out cooked. I Continue Reading →
My absence can be explained. I *finished* the new manuscript. Well a draft. And it’s been sent to my beloved Beta readers. Thank you, thank you, a million thank yous my beauteous Beta readers! They will now read, slice, and dice my latest draft. I hope that their fresh eyes Continue Reading →
So close. So very very close to the end of this latest manuscript. As I ever so slowly limp toward the end of this manuscript I am of course haunted with the eternal questions that every writer asks: Is it any good? Why did I want to write about these Continue Reading →
Part of the job as a writer is finding The Next Idea. TV development season is coming to a close. I wrote a tv pilot Hart & Stone that got me a whole lot of meetings and even a little play at one of the studios. But guess what? Hart Continue Reading →
Okay. I am rewriting an old-ish script. This is a pilot from hmm…about a year ago. And the closest thing I can relate this to is putting on an old Prom dress. Shall I explain? When I look at old pics of me in dresses that I’ve worn over the Continue Reading →
For me, the first draft is the easiest. The words come fast, sometimes faster than I can type. I love this time when the story is flowing…and then…comes the middle. Oh the middle. By the time I get to the middle, I already know the end of the first draft Continue Reading →