Monday 3 September 2007

And onward...

Rejections this last week from the TAPS showcase, and Kaos films.

But in the other column, I have a meeting planned with a producer who likes my material and is looking for someone to develop a coming-of-age feature screenplay. (He had particularly nice things to say about 'Normal', which was a good confidence booster as it's my submission to the Red Planet competition.)

Also, 'Santa Baby', a short screenplay I'm working on with a director, may have attracted the interest of a producer. Keep everything crossed for me. Ta.

Meanwhile, it is - somehow - September already, and I have passed the point at which I could retire with honour from the challenge to write a period feature in two months. Gulp! So, I'm madly doing lots of web-based research into turn-of-the-last century stuff to find my way into my central character's head.

Additional: For my recent birthday, my wife has brought me screaming into the early 21st Century with the gift of my first iPod. I have resisted downloading for years, hanging onto my CDs like the curmudgeonly oldster I am. But space became a premium sometime last year at around the time my son was born, so I'm giving in and going virtual. Currently listening to the Happy Mondays' new long-player, 'Uncle Disfunktional'. It is exactly as you'd expect it be, only a little bit better.

10 comments:

Lianne said...

Commiserations on TAPS and Kaos Stuart. Rejection is a bitch. Sounds like you have plenty of other stuff to be getting on with though, which I think is the best formula for coping with rejection.

Stuart Perry said...

Cheers, Lianne.

Lianne said...

Oooh, and Happy Birthday, for whenever it was!

martin said...

Commiserations and congratuations, sir. And many happy returns! How many times round the sun is it now?

Stuart Perry said...

Cheers again, Lianne. Thanks, Martin - and congrats to you on your two scripts still in the BSSC.

I'm as old as my gums and a little older than my teeth.

Jason Arnopp said...

Sorry you're joining me in the Rejection Box, sir. But we march on, with our heads held high. And why? Because we simply don't learn.

No, hold on, that's not right. Because we are UNSTOPPABUBBLE!

Stuart Perry said...

Thank you, Jason, and everyone. I don't mind getting rejections, really, they're a fact of writing life. But I appreciate everyone's good thoughts.

Piers said...

I keep my rejections in a special file, and get them out every so often to caress.

Is this weird?

Frances Lynn said...

I cross my fingers .....

Frances

Stuart Perry said...

Ta Frances.

Piers - it's not that weird, as long as while you're caressing them you're not planning a vicious revenge on every bozo that wrote each one, picturing the exact time, place and weaponary of your vengeance, and even how you'd clean up afterwards. But you're not doing that... ...are you?