screenplays

Okay, I HAVE to grouse about this: I write screenplays on the side. Haven't sold one yet, but I have five feature-length screenplays done and another three going. For grins, I attend a screenwriting group every other week, where we pass around our latest ten-twenty pages, and everybody...

I usually stall a bit, cracking into Page 1 of a screenplay because I never really know if I'm ready. It's been that way for the 3 previous scripts and for this new one too. It's the beginning of a journey, a temporary stepping off into a new world, like taking a cross-USA road trip. You fuss...

(Beanbag opens box and starts passing out cigars) Just finished the first draft of my first screenplay. It's an adventure/romance set in a hypothetical South American country, set in contemporary times, weighing in at 123 pages (yeah, it's a little long, but I find it's much easier to trim...