Brendan and I are head-butting, again, and I don't feel like dealing with it. So I'm not. I got a notice from the Austin Film Festival in yesterday's mail about the next screenplay competition and it put me into a truly pissy mood. I tried for years to work within their system and got nowhere. They all but laughed at me.
So I decided to shift How To Rape A Straight Guy and Porno Manifest into screenplays and send them in. Just to be a dick. Same for the Nicholl Fellowship, who never liked anything I sent them. I pulled up the Word docs of each book and saved them as RTFs then transferred them into Final Draft on my old Mac Mini; it's got a version of the program that works well enough.
However, I'm already seeing HTRASG is going to be more work than PM because so much of it is internal, so I focused on PM. It's coming together a lot better and easier than I expected. I've got almost all of the first act set. It's going to be a chore to get both of them done in time to submit, but even if all that's done is PM, it'll be something they've never seen before, that's for damn sure.
It's a pretty well-constructed story, starting out with the gay-bashing and having Alec shift into a jungle creature when hunting down the boys who did it. I've added in MAGAt hats and am making it more relevant to today's political climate, especially after the Tiki-torch bearing Nazi-boys in Charlotte. Alec still works as a quiet guy made raging beast by the unprovoked attack and how the cops and the judicial system closed ranks to protect the brats who hurt him because one's the son of a judge.
The disparity between what Paul Manafort pulled and got imprisoned for and how people of color are treated by our judicial system is really being brought home, lately. When I first wrote the story, Obama was running for president and Bush was crashing the economy. The BLM and Me,too movements hadn't even been thought of, yet, and people were just beginning to realize they could videotape cops doing their dirty work as they did it and post that on Facebook.
Now? the whole thing's exploded into near chaos. Twitter and Instagram help keep the reich wing from taking control of the narrative, like they used to do with the mainstream media, and the powers that be are still trying to figure out how to take those venues away from us. The owners of those three are working with them, but it's not doing much good; they're too massive to really control, anymore, unless you shut them down completely...and that ain't gonna happen.
The revolution has begun, and it IS being televised...just not on TV.
So I decided to shift How To Rape A Straight Guy and Porno Manifest into screenplays and send them in. Just to be a dick. Same for the Nicholl Fellowship, who never liked anything I sent them. I pulled up the Word docs of each book and saved them as RTFs then transferred them into Final Draft on my old Mac Mini; it's got a version of the program that works well enough.
However, I'm already seeing HTRASG is going to be more work than PM because so much of it is internal, so I focused on PM. It's coming together a lot better and easier than I expected. I've got almost all of the first act set. It's going to be a chore to get both of them done in time to submit, but even if all that's done is PM, it'll be something they've never seen before, that's for damn sure.
It's a pretty well-constructed story, starting out with the gay-bashing and having Alec shift into a jungle creature when hunting down the boys who did it. I've added in MAGAt hats and am making it more relevant to today's political climate, especially after the Tiki-torch bearing Nazi-boys in Charlotte. Alec still works as a quiet guy made raging beast by the unprovoked attack and how the cops and the judicial system closed ranks to protect the brats who hurt him because one's the son of a judge.
The disparity between what Paul Manafort pulled and got imprisoned for and how people of color are treated by our judicial system is really being brought home, lately. When I first wrote the story, Obama was running for president and Bush was crashing the economy. The BLM and Me,too movements hadn't even been thought of, yet, and people were just beginning to realize they could videotape cops doing their dirty work as they did it and post that on Facebook.
Now? the whole thing's exploded into near chaos. Twitter and Instagram help keep the reich wing from taking control of the narrative, like they used to do with the mainstream media, and the powers that be are still trying to figure out how to take those venues away from us. The owners of those three are working with them, but it's not doing much good; they're too massive to really control, anymore, unless you shut them down completely...and that ain't gonna happen.
The revolution has begun, and it IS being televised...just not on TV.
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