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Strange Tales

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Amazing how a story can grow to have a life and will of its own. I have been writing a basic outline of a new screenplay and when the outline was finished, the screenplay had morphed into a novel. This was not by design. The story simply decided it wanted to be a novel instead of a screenplay. It’s alive!

I would be surprised if this were the first time such a phenomenon had happened. It has happened before and will no doubt happen again. That’s the thing about stories. With a small beginning and a little nourishment, a story will grow in ways you had never imagined. If you don’t believe me, try it your self sometime.

I am now in the research phase of a novel. This is not the first novel I have attempted to write. I finished a novel several years ago that never found a home and thus was never published. I have made a couple of subsequent attempts at novels which have stalled at various points. My aim is for this one to last for the long haul. Let’s see where the story takes me.

 

Newsflash!

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I am still alive. Now that we have that out of the way…a few things have happened since my last post. I did indeed attempt to start a web comic strip but it did not go as planned. I found that my artistic skills are such that I can make a mean sketch of an idea but cannot for the life of me stick the landing with a polished and finished drawing that I am proud of. I am that I am and that’s all that I am; a writer. That’s not a bad thing.

I have pretty much finished my screenplay Deadington and plan on submitting it to a screenplay contest within weeks. Wish me luck. In the meantime I am hard at work outlining a new screenplay from an idea that I have had for a long time. Its a great concept and, since I have heard that concept is king in Hollywood, it should do well.

Planet Comicon is about to hit Kansas City this weekend and so I have prepared a few script samples and proposals in hopes of finding an artist to help give my creations life. It can only help me that an editor from Marvel will be there this year to review portfolios. I can stand near his table and grab the cast-offs. No artist refuses someone a look at their portfolio.

That’s all for now. Will try to keep in touch more but you can see how that has gone in the past.

Log Lines and Short Lines

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I am still revising my Deadington screenplay but had to pause to come up with a log line for the story. A log line is a short and sweet summary of the story usually used as an elevator pitch to a producer or sign post to a reader to let them know what kind of story they are in for. It is a lot harder to do then you would think. I had some help from folks at Go Into The Story to come up with what I know have. Let me know what you think. Any producers, managers or agents out there, feel free to drop me a line and as they say in Hollywood; we’ll do lunch.

A wayward Frankenstein’s monster moonlighting as a getaway driver, decides to go straight after connecting with his young kidnap victim and with help from a U.S. Marshal and a ghost, struggles to defeat his old partner Dracula and save his own immortal soul.