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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

What do I do when I wake up in the middle of a night after 8 hours of logging HD footage? Why, I get an idea for a script and fire up Final Draft. That's how I started another script(!) titled, Angelic Karma, a short script that is actually film-able. I mostly wrote far-out, exotic stories that can't be capture on a camera with a modest budget around NYC, but this story is more down-to-earth. I literally lifted the plot from an old Korean folklore, but updated/revised for modern NYC setting. As I feverishly typed up first 5 pages in two hours, I felt the great relief and went to bed again at 4 am for better tomorrow.

I'm currently working on SEVEN(!!) scripts but I hope to bang out two short scripts that are more or less written inside my head within a week. The feature scripts need to be done before the end of the year to put on the block for sale-so help me God.

Here's my current script writing progress report:

  • Angelic Karma - Short Drama, 5 pages out of 20-30 pages.
  • Tears of Icarua - Short Drama/Action, 5 pages out of 20-30 pages.
  • Trigger Digits - Feature Thriller, 5 pages out of 110 pages. Needs to more work on plots and instill the essence of Hitchcock thrillers.
  • Dark Tide Rising - Feature Thriller, 110 pages. Gunning to become "Alien" in deep sea. Needs to work on plots.
  • Criminal Sphere - Feature Sci-Fi/Action/Drama, 110 pages. Rewrite. Needs to work on characters.
  • Belfast Saga - Feature Fantasy/Action/Drama, 15 pages out of 110 pages. Needs to work on characters.
  • Princess and Seven Assassins - Feature Action/Drama, 104 pages. Rewrite. Needs to work on characters and tighten the plot.
I'm always searching for next "big" story/idea that I can turn around for a script, but I really need to dig in and finish up the scripts I started. And find if these scripts are worth telling/making.

I could consider myself a rich person if I can finish these scripts in sastisfactory state to make sales pitches to producers/studios. After all, scripts have loooong shelf life...

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