Feb 24th, 2010
by Dave Q.
It’s been a long while since I posted anything about the story. For the most part I have been very busy working at my regular job and I am lucky if I get a day or evening once a week to work on the story. It’s funny because a few people at work know I write various things, so they often ask how the story is coming. Usually I shrug and say “I’m working on it”. In time I think this will be a fun and original story. Hopefully the readers will to.
Now that I have decided to tell my story in the written form rather than as a movie, I have been having to tackle some issues with the plot. In a film it’s easy to have cut from one scene to the next, but in a novel you have the time to fill in some details that are sometimes rather difficult to get across in a film. I am finding that I am able to develop and convey the internal thoughts of my main characters better and it’s helping to flesh them out. I’m only a few chapter in, but I’m thinking that this may book may serve as a spring board for a longer series further down the road. A lot can happen in a shady motel at the end of town…
-DQ
Posted in: Current Projects, Shady Palms.
Tagged: Creative Writing · Novel
Dec 10th, 2009
by Dave Q.
It’s been a long time, but I have been busy writing as I have promised. I have basically completed the first serious version of the script for Redress. I have shelved it for a while as there are some rough spots that need smoothing and I want to take a fresh whack at it after the holidays.
I had started work on the novel for Cinco de Mayo Massacre a long time ago but I could never get past the first chapter, so I shelved it after staring at the screen with writers block for several days. The story was all written in a treatment I did a while ago, but
After some serious thought I pulled out the 1/2 completed screenplay and 14 page treatment for Bedbugs from Hell. After a lot of thought I finally decided to make this my next official writing project and my first novel that I will seriously attempt to get published. Rather than just call it the same things, I thought I would name the book after the Shady Palms Motel that is the centerpiece of the story.
The great thing about this project is that the story is basically written. Now I just have to fill in the gaps and add some detail. I don’t have to worry about special effects or other film related crap. I can just write the story the way I see it and then it’s done. If nobody officially publishes it I can always self-publish through Amazon.
Given the fact I have little time to write anymore, I think I am giving myself a year to come up with a solid first draft for this one. We’ll see, I’ve always been one to play it by ear, so maybe I’ll fall into a good creative streak and push this puppy out faster.
-DQ
Posted in: Current Projects, Shady Palms, Writing Projects.
Tagged: Creative Writing · Novel
Nov 25th, 2009
by Dave Q.
I just wanted to let the few people who actually read this stuff know that I have finally finished the long, painful edit of my script for Redress.
The editing was long and painful simply because I have had a lot of personal stuff to deal with over the past few months and it has been extremely difficult to find time and focus on the story.
The script is basically done. There ware three scenes I want to briefly revisit before I start letting some of my peer take a stab at it…no pun intended. I’m going to shelve it for the holidays and dust the confetti off it after New Years.
More on this in 2010!
Posted in: Redress.
Tagged: Creative Writing · Film Development · Screenplay · Screenwriting
