Derry, Northern Ireland

Derry, Northern Ireland
A book I'm working on is set in this town.

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Porno Manifesto wins...

I'm working along to shift the book into screenplay format, and it's coming together very neatly. Alec is working his plan out in plain view, like an obsessive maniac...and the fact he's stalking a group of guys who tried to kill him makes it very conflicting.

I'm at the point where he prevents them from carrying out another gay-bashing and now knows he's got the right group of MAGAts. What happens from this point is going to be morally awkward to any and all, because he's going outside the law to exact revenge on a group of stupid college brats who haven't really thought about the consequences of their actions...and I'm lovin' it.

This has altered my game-plan a bit, regarding the Nicholl and Austin FF. Doing HTRASG is definitely a Fuck you to them...so it could be simply dismissed. But Porno Manifesto isn't...or could be seen as a deliberate attempt to write a gay-revenge movie...so it can't be as easily shrugged off. And when it is, I can legally scream HOMOPHOBIA!!! That'll be the most fun.

And the truth is, I really don't think it will go anywhere with either of them. My work has never done well in the upper-echelon competitions. I don't know why, but no matter what I tried or sent in, I only did okay in the lesser contests. So...there's something about how I write scripts that doesn't work for those who claim to be the real deal in competitions.

And still doesn't, really. I didn't even get a "No thank you" response from the Universal Writers Fellowship, and producers I've been referred to by friends who know them won't even respond to me. So screenwriting was never going to be my method. What a thing to realize after nearly 40 years of trying.

Therefore, I'm writing PM to have fun and be a dick instead of a guy trying to please. It's rather liberating. Maybe it's how I should have been from the outset, instead of just aimless and scared and inconsistent. I've known a number of talentless dicks who've gotten ahead in the business. Naw...I like being merely psychotic touched with a layer of schizophrenia...

...it's the freak in me...

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