Whaz’ Up?
Happy New Year, my Peeps. Hope you all entered 2010 safe and well and happy.
Just wanted to touch base with my one or two constituents out there in Cyber Space and let you in on what I’ve been up to.
Last week I finished a rough draft – actually closer to one-and-a-half drafts – of my latest script: No Road to Fortune. Here’s the logline: An ambulance-chasing lawyer lands a malpractice case worth millions only to learn he is up against the best lawyer in the state – his older brother.
I’ll let it to simmer on the back burner for a week or two while I develop a new screenplay tentatively titled: Peter and Ba’al. Here’s the logline for that: A down and out TV Evangelist is visited by an Alien who wants to meet Jesus.
Sort of a Sfi-FI comedy. I’ve never done a comedy before, so this is new territory for me.
I’ve also started to query management and production companies, begging them to read and/or buy my scripts
We’ll see how that works out as one of my goals for 2010 is to, at the very least, option a screenplay. Fingers crossed.
How about you, my one or two faithful followers? What are you up to? I hope you’re writing – everyday. Are you going to send out queries? Let me know. The spec script season runs from February through April and then again from September through November. Remember, you will never sell a script if you don’t send out those queries and above all else you must
Keep Writing!
Good to read you’re keepin’ busy, Mike. No presure, but try to remember the Nicholls’ deadline is May 1…
Currently I’m hot-n-heavy at work on a dark sci-fi. Story sometimes feels like a snake, its slithering all over the place. I’m thinking I’m going to have to do several drafts to hone things, especially the characters. But I too have an eye on that May 1st deadline…
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
Benderspink has responded positively to a couple of my queries, but no longer seems to be looking for new blood. Zero Gravity has also requested a couple of my scripts after I queried them. Kaplan-Perrone may have, too, if I remember correctly.
Just mentioning the companies that have been friendly to me. All the best!