Back to the Grind

After the holidays, it's time to finish a rewrite. See, the agent says that one of the scripts is more commercial than the others, but that doesn't mean it's ready. So, after dozens of e-mails and a couple of conference calls, it's time to step it up a notch. Better yet, this week is day job-free, so the plan is to finish a new draft with the discussed changes.

And what are said changes? Without specifics, the whole point of this blog is to a) keep me focused and b) provide some degree of advice to other screenwriters who are starting at the bottom. Though they liked the initial script, a horror film, the problem as the agent and development lead saw it was that it was too straightforward. They wanted some twists and turns. In short, some mystery. So, having taken copious notes, spent a good deal of time at the dry erase board, and a fair amount of time jotting notes into a word doc, we have some twists. The ending is still a bit ethereal, but I know thematically where I want to go with it, so let's see how it goes.