This is what happens when you get too emotionally invested into something you write.

It’s always a sad day when the only thing stopping great talent from creating is a connection to someone with power.

Making contacts and building relationships is hard work, but can sometimes pay off. A manager picks up my script and loves it.

A quick setup regarding my journey to professional screenwriter. It’s my ultimate dream.

I barely have enough time and energy to keep up with one life. The crossroads are approaching.

Distracted with dreams of professional screenwriting and hamstrung by illness. That’s why I’ve been away.

Just letting everyone know that I’m alive and what I’ve been doing that’s taken me away from the site.

I got up early this morning to watch Get Smart before it left my local theater, which typically isn’t a problem, except that I was up pretty late on Friday, writing with my co-author on this stage play that’s been in the works since ’97. Things are going well — extremely well — but that means inspiration can keep our eyes off the clock for hours on end. Then next thing you know, it’s 1 a.m. Throw in half a pack of cigarettes, overpriced, pretentious designer coffee and you can bet that my sleep wasn’t too restful either.

I inevitably fell asleep around 3 or 4 p.m. and didn’t get back up until around 7. No good.

You know, for all my complaints about work, things have actually been pretty interesting lately. It’s nice to know that even though my title is officially Copywriter, I get to do more than just write marketing copy. Most of my opportunities are still writing related, mind you, like working with SQL server to update the Web site’s database or proofreading some technical documents, but at least it breaks up the monotony of the daily rigmarole. And at the end of the day, that’s all I really need to get me through.

It’s one of life’s great cruelties that containers are always constructed too small to hold the things we want to store inside them. Luggage, moving trucks, garages; it always seems like if they could just hold a little bit more, they’d be perfect! Alas. Leave that second pair of shoes at home. Make one more [...]

Well, probably not, but according to my Web stats, someone from Silver Pictures (Joel Silver’s production company) stopped by my site a little after 9 a.m. today. Check it out: Most likely, it was one of his many assistants, probably the one in charge of Internet PR, who was Google Alerted at Joel’s name being [...]

Current Projects: Update 2 Well, looks like we have a little forward movement on my Quadrilogy project. If you’re late to the party, click on Current Projects in my Categories section to the right and look for the very first post in that category. Anyway, I scheduled a sit-down with Mr. Actor over lunch this [...]

Can’t Stop Developing for the Web Alright, this will be the last of the major changes for a while. I promise. I think I’m finally happy with the layout. Version 4.0 was functionally nice, but the look of it was a little all over the place. I think this one flows better and has a [...]

So. Did you watch the Oscars? I don’t know about you, but I was terribly bored. It just felt obligatory. Where was the fanfare? Where was the over-production? Instead, we got an awards ceremony that was just as predictable as most industry films. Daniel Day Lewis had to win for There Will Be Blood. He [...]

For the first time in a long time, I feel pretty good about my life. That’s not to say that I walk around depressed all day, it’s just that I’ve been feeling stagnant. Everything was becoming routine. I’d wake up, go to work, come home, do whatever, then sleep. The worst part of that formula [...]

I hate to harp on this, but I’m not doing a very good job at blogging. And now, I can’t even blame work, since there really isn’t that much to do – comparatively anyway. The fact of the matter is, I just haven’t been inspired to write. Before, I was living hand-to-mouth, spending my paychecks [...]

I don’t want to speak out of turn here since I’m not a freelance writer by trade (anymore), nor do I have tons of experience doing it. On the other hand, I think I’ve experienced enough to give people just starting out in the freelance world some good advice and safety tips. Some of this [...]

It’s an interesting thing to be a writer. Its one of those jobs that everyone thinks they can just do. Everyone communicates through writing as it is. It’s easy enough to do it creatively then, right? It’s like that old joke about the writer and the brain surgeon. A writer and a brain surgeon are [...]

I have no idea how to become a scab writer, but almost all my hits are coming from Google searches for “become a scab writer,” I thought I’d create this one post to try and catch them all. Look, seriously, it’s probably a really bad idea to try and undermine the WGA like that. I [...]

Man, I’m beat. I’m not sure if it’s because I shocked my deltoids tonight or because the marketing and sales department burst out in a fit of sporadic fall cleaning at work today. And if you’re joining the party late, I’m in the marketing department. Somewhere, someone high up (probably even the highest) decided that [...]