So one of the purposes of this blog when I started it about a year ago was to track where I was going with my writing. That's one of those New Year's resolution paths that we all go down. Or most of us, even those of us who are too cool to admit that we only think about improving ourselves around January 1. Anyway, today (not while I was at work, I promise) I started working on a screenplay somewhere in my Google Docs, which is the best cloud app I can get to from where I work. The boss blocks a lot of the web (including Dropbox, can you believe it?) to keep us productive on real work shit. Thanks, boss.
And I know, I know. Screenplay ain't what I went to school for, it ain't what I want to write ultimately, it ain't even in my top three genres of interest. But I do have some friends and colleagues who are film/video people, and I have gotten a bit of encouragement to give it a try, so I am doing it. My goal over the next month or so is to come up with a script for a short film. Then, most likely, I will return to my memoir project and get a book written about all the stuff I didn't do in Iraq. I don't really like writing nonfiction, but from a market standpoint, it's really the best thing I can do as far as short(er)-term long-form writing goes. Whatever that means.The script, however, is a short story that I never wrote, but it's a story idea that I like, and I think it can look good on film. So that's what's on my plate right now. Somebody hold me to it.
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