Good morning, fellow artists! Welcome to another exciting edition of my weekly blog. As you all know, I am focusing on three goals this year. Those goals are: 1) Book supporting roles in feature films produced and distributed by independent or mid-sized studios. 2) Complete the second draft of “The Third Act” feature film script with Kelly Tighe. 3) Write and complete the first draft of my rugby feature film script. Each week, I will provide updates that are hopefully inspiring and engaging.
Let’s focus on the third goal. I mentioned in my last blog entry that act two is the meat of the script. I should also add it’s the belly of the beast. It’s twice the size of act one. I sometimes find act two to be daunting to write because I have to keep the momentum going as I walk through the thicket of the woods, the thicket of the jungle. “Will I ever make it out? Will I make it to the other side?” Act two takes the longest for me to write (anyone else feels the same way?) Keep reading below 🙂
That being said, I’ve begun writing act two on March 4th, 2025! I’ve jumped onto the saddle and I need to hold on tight as I traverse act two. “Yeehaw! Onward and forward!” is the battle cry as I march through the good and bad of act two. Armed with my feature film treatment, I established the central question at the end of act one. I wrote the scene that formed the act two break/break into act two. My dialogue flowed in scenes and I introduced new supporting characters in act two. I made sure to keep focusing on the event of the scene, to fill it out emotionally in terms of what the characters were feeling, and to make sure the scenes had a beginning, middle, and end. New questions came up that encouraged me to conduct further research in the moment (and further research in the days ahead.) “Yeehaw! Onward and forward!” Keep reading below 🙂
Until next week!
Chasing The George 