You may remember that I was in the top 100 loglines at a contest over at ScriptShadow. I am now in the top 25! Now to finish this rewrite by January 11th!
Monthly Archive: December 2009
Dec 17 2009
Weekend Recap: Nominate me for Awards!
I am still sick, I have been sick for so so long. I mean, I’m 87% better. Which is to say I’m not totally exhausted but I’m still coughing and my nose is still icky. I finished my course of antibiotics, so I’m guessing there’s nothing to do now but hope. My posting is probably …
Dec 11 2009
The Black List
Today is the drop date of the list of Hollywood’s favorite “unproduced” screenplays of the year. Of course, almost everything on the list is in production or has been optioned. But there are a few scripts that might get that extra needed bump simply by being on this list! Here is the list: http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/the-black-list-to-be-posted-here-in-entirety/ More …
Dec 10 2009
Reality TV: People are Crazy
The thing about reality shows is that you’re working with people who have to be willing to be on TV. And the thing about people who are willing to be on TV is that most of them are crazy. Today, there was sent an e-mail to a show that the producing team spent probably half …
Dec 08 2009
Bible Con: the rewrite
I’ve been sort of kind of rewriting Bible Con for the last two months, but I think I’ve had a breakthrough. It’s a Mockumentary and has a lot of characters and a fair few balls in the air at any time, and the most consistent note I’ve gotten on it is that the conflict needs …
Dec 06 2009
Eddie Kritzer: I thought he was gone
Eddie Kritzer seems to be going to unrelated posts and commenting with ad hominem attacks. I’ve told him there, but I’m posting it again, I don’t want to block anyone, but I’m not patient with people who simply post trying to get some sort of emotional rise out of people. There are plenty of places …
Dec 06 2009
Hollywood: Not for the weak
I very rarely get into anything particularly personal on this blog. One, because it’s public, and two, because it rarely seems relevant to my career, which is the focus here. But sometimes the personal and the public are a bit intermixed, and that’s what I want to talk about. My health versus my career. I …
Dec 04 2009
InkTip: 3 months in, first Script download
My script has been up on InkTip since the beginning of September. Today, for the first time, it was downloaded. The logline has come up in someone’s search 94 times, 34 of those hits were from LA Feature Film Academy. Today someone at LA Feature Film Academy actually downloaded it. Anyone know anything about them? …
Dec 03 2009
PitchQ: Highest rated of November; A winner is me
So, I guess I won this contest of the highest rated pitch of November on Pitch Q. They didn’t alert me or anything, nor did I know I had comments, I just happened to go to the page and see my face all huge and pink on the front. So… yay for me! http://www.pitchq.com/?pitch/&4490 I …

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