I'm doing my own damn reading of A65...

The people at Wildsound and the Novel Writing Festival are ignoring me, regarding taking down that awful video, so I'm doing my own reading of The Alice '65. A friend who's a good actor has said she'd read it for me, and I can work up a slideshow to go with it. Maybe 12 minutes long, depending on how she does it, but she's well-trained in acting and can give it the feel it needs.

I'm headed down to NYC so can work out what I'll need for the slideshow on the train. And I'll need to figure out what I need in the way of a program to work it. I have Garage Band and iMovie, so maybe I can work up a video using those. Dunno yet. This is going to be a learning process. And if she winds up unable to do it, shit...I'll read it aloud, myself. I couldn't do any worse, and at least I know how to pronounce Kristin Lavransdatter.

I'm also about halfway done with the script for Porno Manifesto. I've toned down the sex scenes to where they're on the level of cable...which isn't by much...and taking out all the internal contemplations of Alec is making the story not only cleaner but is showing me it's pretty well-structured. Now instead of Alec signaling what he's planning to do, he just does it and the viewer follows.

I've also added a couple of complications. Like when he sneaks into the frat house to scope it out before hiding cameras in his attackers' rooms. It's supposed to be deserted during Spring Break, but he's almost caught by some of the guys coming back to get some things.

I think it'll wind up between 115 and 120 pages long...and maybe once it's done I'll see if I can sell it. I can just see that happening -- all my work on straight Hollywood scripts and the first one I sell is a gay-revenge-rape fantasy...

That would be hysterical...