Porno Manifest nears completion...

Porno Manifesto has become a pretty solid script. I finished the packing job early, on Saturday, had my ritual In-N-Out burger animal style, then spent the rest of Saturday and all of Sunday working on it. I’ve been to the Bay Area so many times there’s nothing interesting here, anymore. Besides, I had a bad reaction to a frozen dinner I nuked and it was good to stay close to a toilet till Imodium kicked in.

I did two red-pen passes over my printout and began inputting the changes, today, so I can print out another copy and do it all, again. The story stays pretty much the same, but I’ve combined a couple of characters into one and made him a black lesbian who’s friends with Alec, my MC.

I’ve also rearranged a couple scenes and cut a near episode where Alec almost does something evil. He’s got justification to go after the guys who attacked him; not anyone else. And my explanation of what the Porno Manifesto is, at the end, doesn’t make sense, now...so I’m simplifying it.

Plus, I’ve given Alec more of a back-story -- dealing with a gorgeous asshole he got involved with, in part, and noting that his father’s dead and his mother’s an alcoholic.

There’s a scene in the script (that’s also in the book) where Alec sees one of his bashers has fed a girl a roofie and is taking advantage of her in his frat-house room, so Alec sneaks in and rapes the guy as he’s raping the unconscious girl. Later, he convinces the guy he raped that it was one of the other gay-bashers and convinces him to get even...by doing it back to him.

This is definitely a no-apologies script...and I’m having a hell of a lot of fun with it. Because to my mind, it’s a damn good. It goes fast and straight. It’s morally ambiguous, to put it mildly, and it has something to say about our world, today and the casual amorality allowed for white males but no one else.

I’m looking forward to sending it in to a bunch of screenplay competitions.