Writing In Abundance This Past Week.

Hello, my fellow artists! Welcome to another exciting edition of my weekly blog. As you all know, I have two goals that I am focusing on this year. And each week, I am alternating between the two goals to provide updates that are hopefully inspiring and engaging. This week, we are back to my writing goal for 2024: Finish the 1st draft of the “Third Act” feature film script with Kelly Tighe. Once that’s done, do a table read, get feedback, and complete additional drafts.

Act 3 is coming along, and Kelly and I had a great writing session this past Wednesday. After our writing session, Kelly decided to tackle the second to last scene in Act 3, and I realized that I needed to write a “transition” scene between two other scenes I wrote in Act 3. There was a harsh, quick timeline/story transition between those two scenes. I knew we needed a scene in between that would allow the characters and the audience to breathe for a second and to fill in the blanks a little bit more in terms of making sure the logical and emotional progression of the story continued so that when the next scene occurs, the audience doesn’t say, “Wait. Woah. What just happened? This next scene came out of nowhere. It felt jarring.” I am excited to share the scene with Kelly this week and hear her thoughts. Keep reading below 🙂

In other writing news, I had the pleasure of providing advice to a high school student this past Tuesday who wrote a short film script that they eventually want to develop into a feature film. A colleague and friend initially reached out to see if I would be available and willing to provide assistance and feedback on this student’s short film script. I said yes, and they connected me with the student’s teacher. I coordinated with the student’s teacher to set up a Zoom meeting so we could meet. I read the student’s script a few times before our meeting, generated notes and questions, and looked forward to meeting the two of them. The meeting went GREAT! The student had a positive attitude from start to finish. They received my notes and asked me questions. The teacher was so appreciative and thanked me for meeting with the two of them over Zoom. The next day, the teacher emailed me and said that the meeting was impactful and her student was eager to share their experience with their classmates. Keep reading below 🙂

Two days later, I receive a text message from another colleague and friend asking if I would like to read a feature film script they wrote for a specific TV network. I said yes, and look forward to reading it as well. Hmmm, I may have to look into writing consulting 🙂 🙂 🙂 It’s been a productive past week of writing that also included writing letters to people on my relationship map and paying attention to the writing structure in a feature film I watched. Keep reading below 🙂

See you all next week!