Just a quick update:
- Despite one blogger calling the 'Fix It' video the "worst video of 2006", it will probably air sometime early this Spring on TV. I think commenting on criticisms is probably a bad thing for a director to do, but I'm pretty happy that the video's able to piss off people. Better bad then boring, right?
- I've got a new job as the Arts & Entertainment editor of Frontiers. I've been freelancing for a couple of years now, so it will nice to have a steady paycheck again. It's a great paper with a great staff and basically my job will be to assign and manage the events calendar with all its assorted articles and infotainment. This is a dream job for a tv/screenwriter since it entails minimal writing and lots of "industry" contact.
- Flip side of the coin: I won't be writing for any local gay rags anymore since it's an obvious conflict of interest. I have mixed feelings about this, but I have lined up some pretty hefty writing projects for myself lately, so while you'll be seeing less of my work regularly for a while, the plan is bigger stuff later on.
- Bigger Stuff#1: I'm just about done with the treatment for my psycho thriller. Since it's not WGA registered yet, I'll hold off talking about it, but it's a lot of fun to work in a genre I don't usually work in and to focus less on inspiring humanity and more on scaring the crap out of my audience.
I've got a ton more projects I want to start, but writing-wise the screenplay's the first priority. I think once I get the first draft finished (end of Feb., ideally) I'll start talking about what I want to do next, but the hardest part of writing for me is maintaining focus, so one pipe dream at a time, right?
basically, I'm saying the next few weeks are going to be really busy for me, so I'll see you all in a while. I promise to start giving useful advice or information sometime, just not now.
Until then-
Here's my brand spanking new screenwriting/ TV writing booklist. If you're looking for some decent advice on screenwriting books to buy, I recommend you check it out. I don't really encourage buying lots of screenwriting books, you need to know the basic structures of a commercial film and the format, but I'm not a big "write the biography of all your characters" workshop writer, nor do I care for the cult of Joseph Campbell. Myth is great, but too many young writers ( I know, I'm 26, but I've been doing this since I was 17) look to
The Hero with the Thousand Faces as some kind of magic key that will solve all their story problems. It won't. So sorry.
