Weekend Update

So, here we are in the middle of April and I thought I should update y'all on progress.

Underground - Minor rewrite - I thought I'd been tweaking the vampire genre --- and yes, I can hear you all clicking off another vampire script in your fledgling screenwriter odometer --- by changing some of the Rules of Vampirism, but all I was doing was confusing the reader. So, I'm going back in and making some changes, but it does involve moving events around to match the time of day, so I've got to rethink some stuff.

IOU - First draft (finally) - I've been kicking this around for a long time based on a conversation I had with an old girlfriend. I've been writing it in my head for (OMG) 15 years, so it's about time it hit the page.

Mouse - First draft - Stuck. I'll be honest, I'm stuck on this. I'm going to break free by writing a simple prose version of the story and then adapt it.

Brother's Keeper - Done and awaiting social activation.

Bow's End - Preparing for 1st draft - This is the script I suddenly sprang awake with the ending in my head a few weeks back. To avoid The Wall on this one like I've got with Mouse, I want to have at least the base of the story on paper before attempting a draft.

Geekz - I think I'll just treatment this one out and save writing it until...haha...I can pitch it and get paid to write it.

This project - No contact since the original conversation. I'm not bitter about it, but it would have been polite for the producer to have contacted me to say she was going to pass. I already know I'm rejected, I don't need to waste time getting confirmation of a rejection.

and this from just yesterday - I'm still up in the air on this. I know there are plenty of agent-fish in the sea, but my main reason for not having used this connection in the past was this insanely stupid need I have to do things as politely as possible. I was waiting for confirmation from Bruce when I really should have just asked him to make the contact. An agent is going to be looking for good stuff no matter where it comes from, that's their stock in trade. I don't know what would make me feel worse; not having taken advantage of this or taking advantage and making myself feel complicit to the situation with Bruce and his girlfriend by association. If I could somehow do this with minimal contact with Bruce, this might work. I wish my friend David were around, I'd ask his opinion, but I think even he might have told me to use Bruce for what I can get.

In other news, I think I've broken my foot, or at least a toe. Since we don't want The Prince to be able to get into the kitchen on his own during his present 'I'll turn all knobs and push all buttons' phase, we have a gate in the kitchen doorway. Instead of opening the gate and walking through, I usually step over the gate. Yesterday I stepped over the gate and brought my right foot down onto the gate with a nice THWACK. I had a small black mark on my foot afterward as I put on my shoes to go to the daygig, then my toe was partially black when I got home. This morning it looked pretty much the same as last night, so I figured I just had a bad bruise, but now the next two toes have black marks where they connect to the foot and the black spots on the bottom of the affected toe appears to be spreading as well. Since there's no pain associated with this at present (unless I squeeze the base of the toe), I'm thinking of just propping it up today and getting to the doctor on Monday.