Category Archives: Musings

My eyes are a bit bleary from screenlight, my arms ache from typing, and I’m drowning in words.

I may have bitten off too much this time!
Here’s what I’m up to:
1. This week is my online crit group from WOTS – we send each other work during the first and third weeks of the month. Started critiquing one, not finished.
2. The academic newsletter I’m editing just came back from first draft, we’re in the midst of heavy design & text editing. (this is my, um, paid job)
3.  Entered NYC Midnight Madness Screenplay competition – currently people are posting screenplays & asking for reviews. I’m thinking I may have to sit the critiquing out for this round!

So I wrote a screenplay this weekend!

I signed up for the NYC Midnight Madness Screenwriters Challenge, got a genre (Sci-Fi, how cool is that), a location (a sightseeing bus, how weird is that) and an object (boxing gloves).  Submitted a screenplay in the “proper” format 3 hours before the deadline.  Wahoo!!

I feel like I’m on fire these days, a great way to start November (yes, of course I plan to do Nanowrimo).  Words are just spilling out.  (I also wrote a fairy tale on Friday for my weekly flash-fiction challenge.)

Quite fun to do a screenplay.  I figured it was a great exercise to pare down to the essentials – the action, the dialog, the plot – a paring down that might help next time I write a short story.

Have several stories out to publishers, which is pretty darn fun.  I’m looking forward to my first rejection (losing contests, I’ve decided, doesn’t count).

Cheers!  Write On!