Ramblings of a Splatterpunk : Shady Palms

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Vacancy at the Shady Palms

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 [...]

Welcome to the Shady Palms

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 [...]

Redress – Almost done in time for the Holidays!

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 [...]

Redress – This Rewrite is Done!

Whew.  I literally finished this rewrite of Redress a few minutes ago, but I am so stoked about it, I had to keep writing…which brings me to this.
As of this moment, the script is at 134 pages; the single largest screenplay I have ever completed.  I know there are some “pros” out there that can scoff [...]

Redress – Script News – 100 Pages, Finally

It has taken a while, but the screenplay for Redress finally crept across the 100 page mark last night. My target length for the script is about 130 pages for this draft and then I plan to go back and trim the fat back to about 115 pages.
For those of you following me on Twitter you [...]

Redress – Considering a Name Change

I have been working quite a bit on Redress lately, and it feels good to get my hands dirty again. As I work on developing the story more and more, I am considering changing the name to “Old Mill Road”. All of the major parts of the story happen on, you guessed it, “Old [...]

Redress – Script News

Well, after unintentionally shelving the script for 10 months, I have finally pulled it back out to begin reworking it. It’s not that I intentionally wanted to keep my eyes off the project for this long; just pone thing happened after another and sooner or later I was like,”Shit…I really need to start working on [...]

Redress – Another Script Update

I have been working hard on finalizing Redress over the past few days.  The story is growing and growing all the time, and right now that is a good thing.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, the backbone of the story for Redress could stand alone byitself with all of the horror elements [...]

Redress – Script Update

Wow – 2008 is flying by fast. On that note, the month of April is here! I wanted to start filming bits and pieces of Redress this month, however the script is not done yet. My writing partner Kreg and I have been diligently meeting and writing and the story is much more focused than [...]

Locations and Bugs and Trailers – OH MY!

While Kreg and I are busy wrapping up the script for Redress, I have been scouting locations in my free time and beginning to gather a number of the props that will be needed for the shoot. This film has a number of locations in it which will be a definite challenge when it comes [...]