It appears that even though the application is available and submissions are being accepted, the web application is not yet up and running. I could go ahead and print out a copy of my script and send it off to them, but I’d just as soon save the postage, paper and printer toner and e-submit [...]
The Nicholl Fellowship application is up. Now, I am really shitting myself.
I did something today and now I wish I could undo it, but it’s a good thing, so I shouldn’t undo it. It’s good. I submitted The Soup Storm to Scriptapalooza and the PAGE Awards script competitions. Now, I am shitting myself. Totally totally shitting myself. What if it’s not good enough? What if I [...]
It’s actually not much of an update… my life without TPO is sadly uninteresting. What can I say? I’ve always known that he was the more interesting one in our relationship. I’ve been obsessing about each new episode of Living With the Machigenga (scarily obsessing, at that) and watching more episodes of Clean House than [...]
It’s weird… I’ve been waiting 15 years to have a finished screenplay to submit to the Nicholl Fellowship. I’ve mentioned that (ad nauseum, I’m sure) in previous posts, but now that it’s done and I want to submit it? Well, the Nicholl peeps don’t have their application available yet. I should be patient – I’m [...]
It’s finished. I completed one of the longest-term goals I’ve ever had in my life. What now? Well, for starters, there are rewrites. Copious amounts of rewrites at that. I’ve already completely overhauled my first draft to be more compliant with “standard” formatting rules (something with which I allowed myself a good bit of leeway while I [...]
On March 27th, 2004, I saw the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. That film prompted me to write the prior post about finding my voice. A few months ago, I also posted about my struggle with the 70-page Stretch. Go ahead… take some time to read them both. What isn’t mentioned in those [...]
REPOST FROM MARCH 28th, 2004: I have read almost everything by Nick Hornby. The man is one of my favorite authors (Kurt Vonnegut being my absolute favorite of all time). The reason I mention him is because in the Thunder Road chapter of SongBook he writes about how he eventually “found his voice” as an [...]
I am GOING to get my MFA from here the INSTANT I finish my undergrad work. I MEAN it. Now, excuse me while I finish my homework for tonight.
Late last year… or is that early this year?… I began writing a screenplay. This was not the first time I ever tried sitting down to write a screenplay – I have TONS of movie ideas floating around in my head all the time. Anyone who’s known me for the past 10 years can even [...]
