coverage

Coverage.

The cornerstone of the the entry level development position in the 'wood. Or so I'm told. By some twist of fate I've been doing it on and off since 2004. The downside is that I do coverage of books for production companies. Books take much more time to read, and are generally more complicated than scripts are, simply by the nature of the text.

I sometimes get very frustrated with the process. As a screenwriter I'm told that people put my script down after 7 pages if they aren't wowed... and yet I have to read the entire damn book despite knowing on page 4 that this isn't something the company can use.

If I'm being totally honest with myself, sometimes I resent the coverage because it is time that I'm writing something that isn't mine.

Conversely, I would never have had the confidence to finish a script had I not seen what else is out there, had I not had practice writing structural critique.

Got a pedicure and watched Fellini's Satyricon. Not at the same time, though perhaps that would improve the viewing experience.


I'm not sure if it would be much improved with a better sense of Petronius's work.... but thus far the film just seems to take all joy out of life and sex and love. My impression of the original work is that there is satire and bawdy, but for means of laughter as well as critique.

The deliberate (at least I think it is deliberate) lack of syncopation with the sound and the picture- making it looked dubbed-- just serves to make it more distant and less relevant. I also really don't understand the appeal of this kid that everyone is mooning over.

Supernatural spec will soon undergo transformation- I will turn it into a feature!
Also- I've decided to roll up my sleeves and go back to the epic adventures of Girl Assassin. You can blame Carlo, AKA CDC and a few too many margaritas at Dos Caminos when she shows up again in the various and sundry inboxes in my life.

Wrote and registered a treatment today. A dark comedy about faith and redemption. One of the things brought up in the WB seminar was that genre writers were getting hired based on their original work. Of the 970 scripts submitted, 13 were Supernatural scripts.

This is pertinent because of the 30 or so in the room, the majority of the people in there were comedy writers. Chris mentioned one of the scripts he remembered was as a "Supernatural script having great dialogue and character development, but weak monster of the week."

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that was my script. I wish that I'd put my hand up and said. "I think that's mine."

I realized the other day that I tend to regret things that I don't do more than I regret things that I do do.

Julie and I saw 'The haunting of Molly Hartley'. It comforted both of us to know that if this crap could get made, we could get produced.

Back from Ell Ay.

The muse struck and struck hard on the flight home. I really wan to be writing, but I know that I have to get to bed. so I can get up. and take a shower before they shut the water off from 9am to noon tomorrow for plumbing repairs.

Apartment is a mess, reimbursement check from work is short $186.00.

Drove to Las Vegas and got to see Amanda. She looked so very very skinny, but things seem to be looking up. Visited with Julie, briefly saw Lesley before she went off to her production meeting.

more about the actual WB meeting later.

Back from London late last night.

A lot of thoughts are running through my head. Mostly, I'm a little bummed that I missed this. Cowbell and all.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrj_bc2Xy9s