Even though
I was looking for ideas over the weekend, a few had already been nagging at me,
and that's where I'm going next.
The main
one is that I was feeling like I should have a month of reading screenplays.
With my preference for tidiness, I wish I had figured out to do that in time to
start on April 1st. I started yesterday. It seems most likely that I will go
through May 7th, or I might try and have a few days where I read more than one
screenplay, so that I just read 30 screenplays in April, I am not sure. I might
find that I am reading in screenplays every day for a month, but not
necessarily finishing one a day. It's okay for it to take shape while it's
still in progress.
Yesterday I
read the screenplay for Dear White People. I was sent a copy a few weeks
ago, because I had helped with their initial crowd-funding.
It was
nice, because I haven't had a chance to see the film yet, and part of my level
was that there was supposed to be a character named after me, but the IMDB
listings didn't show a Gina. She shows up pretty early in the screenplay, but
IMDB lists the character as "Curls". Well, that could work as a
nickname for me too.
Going
forward I will be relying on various script web sites. I hope to get a mix of
different genres and time periods, as well as a mix of movies that I have and
have not seen. It has been a while since I have read a screenplay that I
haven't written, and I am probably due for a refresh.
I don't
know if I will not start writing my next screenplay until I have finished the
reading. The two things could coexist, but might not. For feeling my way, this
is a first step.
There are a
couple of other things that should be going on during this time. When you
publish a book to Kindle Direct Publishing, you get a confirmation that it is
up, but it comes with ideas of things you can do to promote it. I realized that
there are things I haven't done that might be beneficial, like posting previews
on Goodreads. That is something I will look at.
When it is
time to load a screenplay to Amazon again, I have also been thinking that I
should add more materials. I don't think I could shoot a trailer, but you can
upload a storyboard. Drawing a storyboard would be an awful lot like drawing a
comic. My art skills aren't great, but for the scenes I have in mind, I believe
I could manage it.
I had at
one time thought that I would like to draw a few scenes from each of the
screenplays. The drawing has been on hold, but I might be ready to bring it
back. I am thinking of illustrating a scene from Family Ghosts, though
the one I have in mind would be quite hard to draw. That doesn't mean I won't
try it.
Anyway,
that's the current status. Tonight's script is probably going to be Interstellar.
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