SCREENWRITING UPDATE: Won a Copy of Final Draft From PAGE Awards

It will be mine. Oh yes. It will be mine.

Just wanted to give a quick shout out to the folks at the PAGE Awards. I won a drawing for a copy of "Final Draft" today. It's a $300 screenwriting program. Very exciting. I've been using Word, and if you're at all familiar with what it takes to format a screenplay, using Word you have to re-create margins every time characters speak and action happens and a new scene occurs ... it is a very tedious and time consuming process. That, and the info Final Draft compiles as you write on number of locations you're using (plus it keeps track of the names you're using to describe them, which will help a lot), number of characters etc. is all invaulable information for a writer keeping an eye on budget. It's just a really great resource.

I don't mean this to sound like an advertisement for Final Draft, but I'm pretty dang excited darn it!!!

I've been meaning to pick up a copy for a while, but I didn't feel like blowing three hundred when I had a program that worked for my purposes. Kind of waiting until I sold something, it was going to my reward to myself. Now I'll just have to figure something else out ...

Thanks to Jen, Zoe and all the folks over at the PAGE Awards!!!  I've said it before, I'll say it again ... PAGE is the best show in town!!!

My First "Movie Nerd" Post. What's Happening?

So with the recent happenings in my life, I thought I'd start this little blog to better keep track of it all. In case you haven't heard .. here's what's going on.

Over this past summer I wrote my fifth screenplay, "Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington." It is a psychological thriller, (think Hitchcock's the "The Birds" or "North by Northwest." Or more modernly, M. Knight's "Sixth Sense.") all essentially set in the United States Senate.

Logline: What if a high ranking government official was a terrorist and blew up a plane with a United States Senator on board? What if that senator was your husband, and you were just appointed to take his seat?

As a result of my finishing as a finalist in the PAGE Awards with another screenplay "Cherokee Ridge" (a western) and my joining the PAGE's emeetings program, plus with "Mrs. Smith" being added to this year's NYU screenplay bank - I have had a request for "Mrs. Smith" to be sent for review from four management agencies and a production co.

So that is exciting right? Well. We'll see. I've listed who the screenplay has gone out to so far. And what the responses have been as of the date of this writing. Keep an eye on the blog as I continue to hear more.

Anarchy Management

Eyes On the Road Managment

Energy Management

Safran Co. (Production Co.)

Manus Entertainment
Special Note: Requested to read "Cherokee Ridge"