My movie

In all of my free time (which has not been much) for the past 3 weeks, I have been busily re-writing the screenplay that I began in the summer of 2002 while living in Spain. I even printed out all 128 pages in case power went out so I could still work on it.

I have spent weeks completely re-doing almost every section and researching what it would actually take to accomplish what was written. I think I have it nailed down.  So as of 5:00p today I re-registered the new version with the WGA. It doesn't mean anything other than if a story comes out that's close to this one and I think it's plagiarized, I can sue for copyright infringement. It doesn't mean the script will be made or anything like that. 

I've had a really good time writing and researching. I even finally gave it a name. It's been untitled for quite some time. I get really excited to be able to sit down and work on it. And thanks to Google drive, I can do it anytime, anywhere. You know something's on your brain when you hear a song and can picture where it would fit in the script. I love that feeling. I've been fleshing out characters and even came up with ideas of who I think could play them, as well as adding background to some parts, deleting stupid parts and rearranging. 

I spent a good chunk of my weekend and today working on it. But I am still super self conscious of it so don't ask to read it, the answer is no :) I won't even let Scott read it. The only people who can will be the agents I send it to in a month or so. It's just so deeply personal and part of me that if someone I knew read it and didn't like it, I think it might kill me.

Writing movies is a hell of a lot more fun than watching them :)

Next steps: read some screen plays to make sure mine is formatted correctly and upload to Triggerstreet to get feedback.