STILL have not heard from the prodco ( Read more... )

Well, I heard from the prodco's Development Director and they didn't get the right "big picture" or "why should I care" vibe from my pitch. For those of you not-keeping score, the book was "Speak Now" by Margaret Dumas. I actually don't recommended it as a anything but a light hearted read (in mystery circles it's called a "cozy"). So I asked why ( Read more... )

H & I went to Vegas over the weekend for anniversary. We did okay gambling and with the restaurants (so many good ones there now!) and on Saturday night actually got to catch a bit of SNL ( Read more... )

Well, I was called in to a meeting with the Prodco yesterday to "pitch" them my take on one of the books I recommended. The meeting went well enough, I believe I articulated my individual take on the adaptation to screenplay needed along with an assessment of the novel's strengths, tone, and plot "beats ( Read more... )

The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) approach to searching for intelligence is being challenged by mathematics pioneer (some say heretic) Steven Wolfram. He hypothesizes that older ETs would be broadcasting signals with little if any repetition (the "regularity" that SETI searches for), and that efficient signals we receive would ( Read more... )

Last night was the first of Billy Mernit's (author: Writing The Romantic Comedy) UCLA Extension course on romantic comedy writing. As a requirement you need to submit a completed script if you haven't attended the prerequisite courses (I'm just too old for prerequisite courses). He said he liked Magnum Farce, but hated it the first time through. NO ( Read more... )

I just heard from the Development Director of the prodco I interviewed with last week. They don't think we're on track with their proposed project, but have proposed the following ( Read more... )

Woke up at 4:30 am. That's not unusual, but it hasn't happened in a while. I've been sleeping "late" these past couple of months (5:30-7:00 am range) and I was wondering if my biorythms might be changing. But no, this feels more "at home" and I'm going to make the effort to revert to my up-early ways ( Read more... )

What a strange and wonderful conjunctions of stars. As an atheist, I'm not a believer in Astrology [corrected], but what a coincidence that approaching, and in, the month of my birth there's both the wonderful close passages of Venus and Mars, still visible nightly even in arclight-saturated nights, and I've been seeing so many stellar figures in ( Read more... )

I wouldn't "jinx" things by discussing them in a semi-public forum. I'd wait until I had solid success stories and crow about them. But, alas, I'm not wise... and quite frankly it's worked well for me so far ( Read more... )