Digging out, and working away

We've had a few inches of snow in my neck of the woods.

To many of you that seems barely newsworthy, but I live in an area where it doesn't snow much. So, more than a trace tends to shut the whole area down, and it looks like we've gotten a helluva lot more than a trace.

It's over now, though, and things maybe will start to return to normal now. I hope. I'm not a fan of snow, though it did give me an extra day off from work. No way am I going to try to drive on the roads around here when they're icy and slick and also full of other drivers who have no idea how to drive on icy, slick roads.

No thanks. I'll call in and stay home.

My script for the pilot for The Prince didn't make it to the finals in the Final Draft Big Break screenwriting competition. Still, a semifinal finish is nothing to sneeze at. I've rewritten the script and sent it out to a couple of agents to see if I can get some sort of official representation. Fingers crossed somebody likes it. Since it made it past two rounds of judging in a big time screenwriting competition I have to think that it does have something going for it. At the very least maybe I'll get asked for more examples of my work.

And congratulations to those who made it to the next round. Yes, I'm jealous.

I also splurged and paid a reading service to look over my horror screenplay. The feedback I got was honest if a bit blunt. It needs work. I didn't find any notes that I disagreed with, either, and the feedback was helpful. Honesty is what I paid these people for, and I've been rewriting it with their notes in mind. It's quite a bit better, too, now. As is my ego, once it got over the bruising. I guess I was expecting to get "It's perfect! Don't change anything!" back from these people. Not bloody likely.

And I've been revisiting Too Many Tonys, doing a rewrite on it with an eye towards sending it around, too. There were some problems with the story that I couldn't figure out how to fix until recently--putting it aside and then revisiting it later seems to have done the trick, as I figured out how to address the critical issues I had with it. I'm thinking it's nearly ready--I just need to read it over a couple more times, to be sure that I didn't throw the story structure out of whack when I made my changes. And to be sure that the new stuff blends in with the old stuff so it makes one, coherent story.

So, that's what I'm up to right now.