Back in a Cleveland groove...

So we're back from our vacation to several points tropical. A good time was had by all, and did give me the little kick I needed. I've been writing almost non-stop since we got home, and it's been a total high. I can't remember the last time I wrote like this. I've started outlining 2 more screenplays and have worked out or started writing 3 short stories (two of which have the definite potential to become screenplays).

I'm still trying to work out exactly what's going to become of 'The Attic'. I haven't decided if I want to turn it into a movie, and film the movie, or shoot the first episode and an extended trailer and shop those around. I have to do SOMETHING with it - I've got an amazing cast and some extremely cool f/x makeup (a huge 'thank you' to Tom at Cleveland FX for that!). Aside from that, the characters just talk to me in that certain way that lets me know I will be haunted 'til the day I draw my last breath if I don't give them the attention they deserve.

In closing, I read a slightly cheesy bit of inspiration on my way home from class that has stuck with me all day. I'm about to share it with you, so if you're not in the mood for that kind of thing, stop reading now...

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, hope looks up.

Cheers y'all!

When the Muse speaks...

So owing almost exclusively to my freakish sleeping habits, I was awake at 3 AM wrestling with an idea for a story. After taking some notes and doing a page and a half of free writing, I fell asleep and dreamed about the story. A long, detailed, vivid dream that played like a movie in my head. I woke up remembering pretty much every bit of it. My mission, should I choose to accept it (of course I choose to accept it, I try to never look a gift Muse in the mouth...), is to transcribe all the details of this dream so that I don't forget them. Even though it wasn't a shiny-happy story, nor an up-beat dream that I was dreaming, I really do feel a sense of responsibility to this story. If you consider yourself a writer, or like myself, just a story teller, I think we owe the Muse that much; to take the inspiration we are allowed to borrow from that great creative ether "out there" and turn it into something tangible. Something that other people can wrap their minds (and if we do a good job, maybe their hearts) around and say "Yeah, I get it."

I'm just sayin'.

Thought for the day

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club - Jack London

Ugh

Another broken toe; I think it's my writing toe, as I'm feeling strangely bereft of ideas today. We'll see. Maybe I can get Brian to take me to see 'The Men Who Stare At Goats', I've been waiting for that one for a while.

In other news, I just realized how woefully behind the CHP site is. MAJOR house cleaning and cobweb clearing needed over there. I haven't updated The Attic blog in a really long time, mostly because I'm still trying to decide what I should do with it. Right now, a re-write is looking like the most likely. One movie instead of several episodes. Problem is, that means I've got to dump a couple of story lines and characters that I've gotten attached to. More on this as it develops.

That is all.

Greetings and Salutations!

Just a quick post to get things started. Here there will be a running commentary on the daily goings-on of an aspiring film maker (that would be me) and the people who put up with all of it.