… writing? …

I’m thinking about starting up a new feature length screenplay to satisfy a need for instant creative gratification. I am still chugging away on my solo record “Bits” and working on the animated music video “No Escape!”, but writing fulfills a completely different need.

… and I haven’t written anything since last year.

I have the premise worked out, but I have no idea how to frame the story yet. In the past, I have started by writing detailed outlines before setting out to flesh out the real script. I’ll probably start that way again.

It will be my third feature length screenplay. Each time I have scaled the scope of the film down, hoping that I will get the opportunity to direct one of my stories. I wrote my first screenplay in 2005. It was an epic Historical Science Fiction film. Last year I wrote a dark comedy set in the 1980’s.

The film I have in mind now could potentially be shot with some crafty city permits and no budget. It would fall into the Contemporary Science Fiction/Comedy genre.

I was writing on a PC based program called Sophocles that apparently went out of business so I may need to get a new screenwriting program.