Screenplays

I've been writing since my grade school counselor suggested I write my stories down instead of lying to people all the time.

I used to tell people the most outrageous stories and I never understood why they got upset over my lying. I sort of thought that if you didn't expect someone to believe it, then it wasn't a lie. My teachers didn't agree. My writing assignment on "what I did this summer" read more like a summer blockbuster than the recitation of three months of doing nothing.

It took me a while to figure out that since I was watching movies in my head, maybe I should learn how to write movies instead of trying to pick out bits and pieces to make into short stories.

Since then I've written a quite a few screenplays. I threw out the first five, on a second reading I discovered they weren't really worth my time to fix. I'm still considered a novice at this even with over a dozen completed screenplays under my belt.

Here's a sample. Diamonds and Opals is the earliest and I've entered it into several contests including Project GreenLight. So far it hasn't made it past the second round in any of them. Oh well, I really like the story.
Leading Man was the story about Hollywood that came out of my spending way too much time thinking about how a movie gets made and what could go wrong. I wrote A One Night Stand IS a Relationship as a 5 minute short that I could make myself with my friends as the actors and crew. So far, I haven't been able to stop writing long enough to get it made. I am currently finishing up A Conjugal Affair. When it's done, I plan to enter it into the next annual "Set in Philadelphia" contest since it's a real Philly story.