Goodbye 2020 and Hooray to 2021!

 

I know we all feel like the title to this post. Wow, what a year full of crazy it was! I look back and am pleased with my writing output and I'm still at it. Of course I am because if you've been paying attention to this blog at all you know that writing is a compulsion of mine.

I'm in flux right now since the feature script getting all the attention was written with a lot of my own pain inside of it, so it was particularly hard to write. I am not a fan of painful writing so I hope that's not the only path to selling scripts.  

Luckily I love writing fairy tales and I have an opportunity right now that is very juicy in that regard. I have a fairy tale trilogy that could go well beyond that. It's fun to write and I get depressed at every conclusion because I want to stay in that fairy tale land when it comes to writing. If you do something daily like I do where do you want to live? Fairy tale cuteness or pain and sadness? 

2020 gave me another published short which was wonderful and I look forward to it coming out in March 2021 in Common Tongue Magazine's first edition. When Lightening the Way was published Soft Cartel let me know it was peaking their hits to a level they investigated it trying to find out what was going on. That was very cool and my writing partner keeps bugging me to write that as a feature script. I might, but I have a lot of other projects. 

Also in 2020 a feature script, you know that one with all the pain in it, is in consideration with two movie production companies and one producer. I am hoping it's my breakthrough but again I have fear that what they will want in future scripts is more pain. Luckily I have a good opportunity at the same time on one of my fairy tales so maybe if that goes too I won't get pigeonholed into one thing when it comes to writing. That would be really rough too since I also love writing science fiction. 

Hey I also know my life may mean I only sell one, but that one they are all considering right now, I think if it gets made it's going to go very big. Let's just say I think we can all relate and visually it should be pretty stunning. 

Lastly, in 2020 I actually started winning at poker and literally won money in six different  games within a couple of weeks. That event caused a reaction from the platform I had the run of luck and it wasn't a good one unfortunately, even though I thought they were the champions of poker play. Oh well, so it goes, writing is my real passion and poker was my distraction between writing. 

So hope you feel good about some parts of 2020 because I do and I bet if you look for it you will find good things that happened in your life too this year. Like you, however, I've never been so ready to kick out this year to get to 2021. I am definitely going to celebrate the New Year! Let's all do that!

I'm Not Trusting Machines Anymore

 

I grew up in one of the generations where computers weren't there and then they were there. I've been an advocate of the whole project since I was first exposed to it all. I realize now that my faith in machines was over the top. I trusted that spell checks et al would catch every error especially since I had yet another program backing that up before I published, I felt confident everything was A+.

Yes, I did the manual visual critical edit but that was close in time to writing it and I know that I'm too close to it to be able to see the errors. My brain passes right over them like there's no flies on the canvas even if there are. 

Recently on a novel that got a lot of love across a ton of platforms online over the years also got a lot of "fix it" love to go with those glowing bravos. I wondered how could that be? I would peruse the novel, run a spell check again that said A+ and I couldn't understand it. 

Finally and recently I decided to sit down and edit that novel. Why? Because on a feature script that right now might actually have a shot at being made a read through revealed weird capital S's in odd places. I trusted that program too but I decided to sit down with that novel now because I realized I really can't trust machines the way I have been.

I've spent a week so far and I'm almost done but is it going to be perfect? I'm hoping so because after not reading that novel for years I think I got there, where it needs to be so the reader doesn't stub their toes on stones on the road of what they say is a great story. I want the full Bravo, I love that story too. 

So I'm not trusting machines anymore. I hope to be able to finish a novel, script and send it off to editors that happily wait to fix it. That's one of my future goals. For now, I have to rely on myself and machines but I am not trusting them as much anymore. 

I write on excited to put out the Second Edition of The Earthlings, soon. Thanks to everyone who told me about what their reader eyes saw and loved the story enough to save it. I think that's wonderful!

Another Short Story Is Being Published!

 Okay so I am a little behind the bell here. But this place is my quietest place when it comes to posts I do. It fired up just recently because I have a script that three movie production companies have given me the signal they dig it. That's catapulted me into another world that I am swimming around happily in. How could three dig it and not do it? I don't think that's the outcome on this one. They checked me out which cause the recent spikes on every one of my little writing hang outs online, hey that's fine, it's the world we're all in now. I'm a writer, they found that out. 😉😀

The other good news is I have another short story being published. It's a dark fantasy tale called Rebecca's Chest. It's being published by Common Tongue Magazine a publication dedicated to dark fantasy. I also got paid handsomely by them which I really appreciated. I found that out some time ago but I forgot to post that here. 

So here I am, writing, here, now and still. It's going slower right now because knowing that three different movie companies dig the script, that's news I never thought I'd get on any script. It doesn't negate being published for the second time on a short. I love that story and I'm super happy they picked me out of thousands of stories to put in their publication. 

So, bye for now, keep on writing everyone. Happy Holidays too!