It’s a big spiritual and part of the Civil Rights movement, but I love the idea of The Welcome Table regarding the creation of art. AMAZING screenplay reading tonight. And I am too elated/wiped-out to write more until tomorrow morning. Just a huge shout out to my actors and friends (and actor-friends...

On the positive side … I sliced the script down to 139 pages (and only 1 paragraph on 139).  Another 10-ish pages and we’re in the totally movie-star worthy 120s. And I woke up to  a bunch of emails through networking groups of possible actors for the Tuesday night reading. I have som...

I don’t know why it should be so, but I have to say that after cutting another 20 pages out of the script in the last day, I feel vaguely and entirely beaten up. Seriously. We’re down from 174 to 154 pages (and really only one paragraph at the top of 154, but who’s counting). I feel that ...

Today I returned to some truly serious editing of the screenplay, mostly inspired and empowered by watching Gosling in DRIVE. Thinking endless about his supremely effective “less is more” approach with that character, I finally took the proverbial gloves off and started cutting Voice-Over secti...

Yesterday morning, I treated myself to finally visiting Taniya and Michael’s beautiful baby, Tara, prompted by Marie Carter, one of Belle’s very best friends arriving in San Francisco to do the same. Tara is a GREAT baby –– falling asleep in my arms and letting me hold her for over ...

It seems that the meanest person in the world is editing my screenplay. And for better or worse, that person is me. We’re at 260 pages (ha — my typo was “pounds”;  I really am on a juice-cleanse mindset) and we want to be at 120 by Monday, so we’re talking about reducing ...

My transposition of my novel is currently 273 pages. The maximum it should ever be is 120. Therefore it is now more than twice as long as it can be. There are currently 312 scenes of which I have written all but 8.  I am therefore 97.4% done with this part of the process. I actually think the whittlin...

Well — it’s not brilliant YET (my script, that is) but in days, mere days, it will be. Suddenly it was 2 am last night and I’d hit a solid 75% or more of the script at 172 pages and I just had to stop.  I calculate we’ve only another 30-40 pages to go before the massive condens...

Perhaps my shortest blog entry given that I’ve been writing all day. The script is now 70% done (or more) and 135 pages, meaning it’ll be around 200 and then I’ll cut 80. I’ve accepted that it’s far wiser to just TRANSPOSE mountains of dialogue and monologue and then trim then...