I'm excited to start 2009 with a TV spec script that I developed over the last month. I'll have a few days at the Constance Saltontall Foundation for the Arts colony in a couple weeks to get started on that script. I also plan to finish a solid first draft of "Beauty Is..." my coming-of-age mystery set in 1953.
I'm stoked to be teaching 2 sections of Advanced Screenwriting at Ithaca College, and one section of Short Narrative Fiction (screenwriting) at Tompkins Cortland Community College. I'm hoping this will the beginning of a fruitful relationship with TC3 as they grow their screenwriting program.
I have relocated my home office into a much more suitable space for yours truly, leaving my husband with the spare room for his office. It's much warmer out here, for one thing, and the chi just seems to be more conducive to my creative dedication.
Recently, I reconnected with one of my college roommates, who lives not so far from Ithaca. She told me the other night that her own creative writing has dried up from writing too many press releases and newsletters in her marketing job. I plan to give her my copy of Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. I was in my friend's position just a few years ago - divorced from my creative spirit and wondering if I could ever get it back. I don't believe it's something you can ever lose; it's just a matter of reconnecting and allowing it to take the lead, rather than controlling it. "It" being that creative spark, that river rapids of writing.
Current reading list:
Big Wave edited by Clint Willis
Last two issues of Surfer magazine
Reviewing text books for class handouts:
Writing Movies ed. by Alexander Steele
Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 by Lew Hunter (who else?)
Writing the Screenplay by Alan A. Armer
Wrtiting Great Screenplays for Film and TV by Dona Cooper, published by the AFI.
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