OTIS HAS BEEN FINISHED!!!! Well, the first draft has anyway. It took a good 5 or 6 weeks to get the whole 92 pages down but it was a wholly enjoyable experience and just further affirmed my aspirations to do screenwriting as a profession. Eventually I want to build on that by becoming a writer/director. Making a story come to life was a really rewarding feeling and linking everything throughout the screenplay made me feel good about Otis. The first draft will probably be awful but that is why it is the first draft. I am hoping that by the fourth or fifth draft, Otis will be fully functioning and appealing to those who read it, which is the most important thing. I will enter it into the Nicholls Fellowship competition on the 2nd of May, which will only be a second draft but there is no point holding back, I want to get my name out there and I will have nothing to lose apart from the competition fee ;)
Now I move onto my ZOMBIE film, which will be my next writing project. I have been anticipating doing this screenplay whilst writing Otis. Coming up with ideas for it has been refreshing and I have a feeling I am going to have even more fun writing it than Otis. I hope Rabbit In Your Headlights will be a whole hearted zombie romp with reasonable amounts of gore but more importantly a proper story. I hope to have it finished by the end of July, so not long for those of you waiting with bated breath (I know you are out there some bated breath).
I have done an unimaginable thing. I HAVE COME UP WITH A WESTERN!!! I despise Westerns apart from a couple but those are masterpieces. It will be about a lone cowboy who is going around towns killing sheriffs in revenge for a sheriff raping and killing his wife. A sheriff from far out follows his trail and tries to catch the mysterious killer but comes to respect him and defend him. All happy stuff!
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