Once Young
Two parent-less 18-year-olds fall in love and, alone and together, struggle with what love and maturity may look like amid an adult world that is often confusing and sometimes dangerous. A panoramic tale of life as seen through the eyes of innocence.
Actor aged c.18
Actor aged c.38
Romeo and Juliet (play)
American Beauty (1999)
LATEST NEWS. Today (9 January 2025), I have completed a revision of Once Young, a 180-page long saga telling the story of lost youth.
MY STORY AS A SCREENWRITER
I became a hobbyist screenwriter in 2007 when I purchased version 7 of Final Draft. I’ve since completed 12 screenplays and one TV/streaming pilot.
My current goal is to take the opportunity during the holiday season to revise all my scripts.
My 13 scripts (in alphabetical order) are:
Counterchance (“Sometimes bad things happen”) REVISED 31 DECEMBER 2024;
Glorious Revolution (“Unintended consequences writ-large”);
Howlingween (“A road trip to hell”) REVISED 24 DECEMBER 2024;
Howlingween 2: Clarry the Clown (“Island paradise of horror”) REVISED 25 DECEMBER 2024;
Howlingween 3: Red River County (“Unforgiving beggar”) REVISED 27 DECEMBER 2024;
Howlingween 4: Beastly Mist (“sprays won’t work on these insects”) REWRITTEN 28 DECEMBER 2024;
Howlingween 5: Trip Along (“A child’s dream is another’s real-life nightmare”) REVISED 28 DECEMBER 2024;
Kuga’s Way (pilot) (“An intelligent canine becomes involved in human affairs”);
On Board (“A traditional who-done-it mystery”) THOROUGHLY REVISED 7 JANUARY 2025;
Once Young (“Love-struck teenagers”) REVISED 9 JANUARY 2025;
Splendid Isolation (“Pioneering life in remote Alaska”) REVISED 2 JANUARY 2025;
Twelve Less (“Teenagers in life-threatening trouble”) REVISED 30 DECEMBER 2024;
We Were Young Once (“Weren’t we all?”) REVISED 4 JANUARY 2025.
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!CURIOUS BUDDIES
It's not your mother's buddy movie.
CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
PITTSBURGH PHIL
Biopic of Harry Strauss, a.k.a.
Between the Salt and the Sky
It’s 1942, and a small Portuguese fishing village is on the edge of a war that seems far away.
In Between The River
Katie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The perception of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their mystifying neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other wretched souls) after their third offense.
