Sunshine! A gentle breeze! I have 35 minutes before I have to be somewhere else. Just enough time to wave, grab a handful of M&M's off the buffet, and say, "Hello" before I'm off.
I'm a screenwriter based in the western suburbs of Chicago. I write for and about women. My characters use my Midwest pragmatism but add my weird sense of humor to look at themes from a "what if..." point of view.
I've got four scripts needing a variety of polish; I mean, if you don't have them written, you don't have anything to polish. But I'm working on another based on an idea spawned by a book I read last year. Ideas come from everywhere and when one grabs me, I have to work with it for awhile or nothing else gets done.
I'm so glad spring is here. I had a horrible February struggling with writer's block and now that I've planted lettuce and radishes and can smell the awakening of the earth, it feels like the block is leaving. I'm not real good about checking in here. If I'm sitting online, I'm not writing and I need to be writing. I do answer emails, however, because that's writing. Plus, there's sportsball this weekend and I play Dungeons and Dragons online with friends and that's this weekend and it's supposed to be 60+ in Chicago this weekend and I need to do some yard clean up while I contemplate how Lucy lures Muriel and Dean to the hideout where the mob is having a meeting but the FBI is going to show up, too.
Hey, Debra! Thanks for taking your 30min break with us! Oh, hey! I think you'd enjoy meeting a couple of friends of mine. Kelly Shanley, who also writes for and about female characters: https://www.stage32.com/profile/700364/about and Kimberly Anglemyer who is new to screenwriting and could be down for a script exchange in the near future.
Also... I LOVE RADISHES! :-D
Glad to have you here Debra and I'm glad that your new garden is helping awaken the creativity you and get you through that writer's block!
Thought I'd pop in with a status report. The wonderful weather has allowed me to "outline" the next script. That has helped me feel less like I'm behind. I don't know that I do this outline thing very well, but I sort of have a map for the scenes and what needs to happen in each one from beginning to end.