November/December Horror Project

I guess my plan of penning a first, rough draft of a screenplay for September, October, November and December is a bust. Lesson learned: the human brain can only be pushed so far before it pushes back.

Instead, for November and Decemeber, I've been working on a rewrite/polish of a horror script. You should always be writing on something. If a new idea isn't striking your fancy, then pull out an older script, polish it, and put it out there. That should always be Plan B.

Even though this horror script is a few years old, the idea is still as fresh as the day I wrote the very first draft.

I'm a fan of the annual After Dark 8 Films To Die For horror film festival. I've only missed one. One of my goals is to get a film made that makes it into one of the line up. The 2006 festival introduced me to two of my favorite horror films of recent years - "THE ABANDONED" and "THE GRAVEDANCERS." (I also liked "DARK RIDE.")

November Short Film

I started November with the hopes of penning a very rough, first draft of a long-gestating cop thriller that had been brewing for quite awhile. I had every intention of sticking with my September, October, November and December plan of writing very rough drafts of scripts that I had previously outlined, or at least had a good idea of the general shape of the story. I guess I needed a break. I couldn't get going on the cop thriller. The inspiration just wasn't there.

Putting that aside, I wasted a week - the first week of November -

trying to figure out what project to do in its place. A friend of mine, Rick Hansberry, has had a couple of his short film scripts made; a third on the way. Since he's had success in this arena, I decided to throw my hat into the ring. I've only penned a couple of short film scripts, and that was several years ago.

I love "The Twilight Zone" and both incarnations of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Using those as guiding lights, I wrote two 10-page horror shorts. For someone who usually doesn't write these, they're quite good.