Muses gone wild!

I've been off from work all week, and I've got a couple more days off next week (until January 2), and I've been taking advantage of all this to get some stuff done.

And by done I mean done.

I finally finished the pilot script for the TV show I've been going on and on about, and registered it with the Screenwriter's Guild and the copyright office. What does that mean? It means that I've done everything on it that I'm going to do until somebody is willing to pay me for the rights to it, and to rewrite it. Which means it's as good as I think I can make it without anyone else getting involved with it. Which means I'm happy with it.

I'm sure, if someone options it and we get serious about making this show, that I'll get all sorts of input from whoever it may be, and that's fine. That's how it works. My script is the start, the seed from which this dark, scary, beautiful show will grow. I hope. If anybody gets interested in it.

In the meantime I've got lots of other stuff to keep me busy.

For example, I've decided to concentrate on drawing fairyland-style art for a while. Google "Amy Brown" for an idea as to what I'm talking about, if you don't know--I was going to post a link to her online gallery so you could take a look but the link doesn't seem to be working. Maybe now it's up. If you're on Facebook, look for her stuff there, too. It's quite charming and I'm hoping, with a lot of practice, that I'll be able to produce art in a similar vein eventually. Yes, I know there are probably millions of people out there doing similar work, but my response to that is, "so what?" It's what I like, and, as far as my drawing and painting is concerned, that's the only thing that matters to me.

I finished this one yesterday.

 

I was experimenting with shading and I wanted to see what gray and purple looked like together. I also wanted to do something a bit more abstract than what I usually do. I call this one End/Beginning. I was fairly happy with how it turned out.

 

I'm thinking I may take another stab at a prose project. I had an interesting take on an idea I've had for a while. It's one of those things I need to think about because it sort of turns everything upside down, story-wise. Which may be a good thing, as I've been unable to get the damned thing written the way I had it plotted before.

 

It's Saturday here, which means we're expecting another deluge. It's becoming a tradition--another weekend, another flood. I guess it could be worse--at least the temps are above freezing so we won't have to contend with ice, too.

 

That's my story, over the past few days. I'm thinking I may try another take on the above painting, trying something else I've been mulling over. When I'm not sketching my fairies or plotting out my fiction or screenplay.