Splendid Isolation

I've been writing screenplays proper since 2007 and can showcase (as at April 2021) nine of them.

I would love to have one of my screenplays produced, but several factors have to come together for this to happen. In the meantime, I keep writing and this very act makes me happy.

However, since completing my latest, Howlingween 4: Beastly Mist, I've had six false starts, because each of the storylines lacked sufficient emotional investment on my part to carry them beyond the beginning.

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I've been writing screenplays proper since 2007 and can showcase (as at April 2021) nine of them.

I would love to have one of my screenplays produced, but several factors have to come together for this to happen. In the meantime, I keep writing and this very act makes me happy.

However, since completing my latest, Howlingween 4: Beastly Mist, I've had six false starts, because each of the storylines lacked sufficient emotional investment on my part to carry them beyond the beginning. In other words, they were only ideas I was excited about, but my heart wasn't prepared to carry them.

However, to break this inability to write my next screenplay, I've created a database system in FileMaker Pro called ScriptPlanner. With the help of ScriptPlanner, I'm now (as at 3 April 2021 AEST) up to page 89 in Final Draft for my current screenplay title: Nine Less.

The level of emotional involvement for Nine Less is low but ScriptPlanner is helping me to be more professional: that is, to complete the story without it being emotionally-driven.

After I finish Nine Less (similar in theme to the Final Destination films, but about a foreign agent intent on killing the nine surviving teenagers of a plane crash), I feel confident I can go on to the next project, which would likely be one of the previous six storylines I was unable to go past 20 pages.

To come back to the beginning. Even though I'm unproduced, I'm happy because I don't know what success is and thus I'm in splendid isolation whereby I'm free to write what my heart tells me or as, in Nine Less, to learn to complete writing, with the help of my database application, not necessarily what my heart tells me, but from an idea I may have been initially excited about.

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