Continue to grow my feature-screenplay portfolio, have a script for each of the main genres. So therefore:

- Write a comedy feature
- Write a drama feature
- Write a documentary

Also

- Adapt a book

I want to write a horror script, something very different for me. A zombie one possibly.
I also want to re-write some of my scripts but thats probably not gonna happen.

I've a couple of features on the go since mid year. One is about Mal Evans, the Beatles roadie, the other a futuristic one involving aliens and football.

i'd love to do a collab with any SS people. Preferably Jeff (sorry buddy, I know THAT ain't gonna happen!).

Away from writing, I hope St.Kilda wins it's second flag after 44 years!

Write at least one hopefully two features. I'm not really interested in shorts anymore, although I would write one if I got a cracker of an idea that was too good to discard.

Spend more time reading and reviewing both produced and unproduced feature length scripts on Simply Scripts. I feel like I get more out of that than I do reading the how to write screenplay books these days. I've read enough of them.

I've also decided not to do further study next year.  So I’ll have more time for writing than I had this year.

Keep writing. Write more than I have in any previous years. Try to get something to come from it.

Quoted from michel ... (and incidentally fall in love again...)

Not writing related (unless she's a muse, of course), but this is something I wouldn't mind either.

I spent most of 2008/9 madly in love with a woman who didn't even acknowledge I existed! (This may have affected the tone of my recent work!).

It would be nice for 2010 to find someone who reciprocated my interest.

Quoted from Niles_Crane I spent most of 2008/9 madly in love with a woman who didn't even acknowledge I existed! (This may have affected the tone of my recent work!). It would be nice for 2010 to find someone who reciprocated my interest.

Alas Niles, I'm taken.

My love of cigarettes and whiskey keep me more than warm at night. Well, I'm not sure but usually I wake up warm. Apart from that time I awoke in the Gents of Victoria Station. That was a bit messy.

Whiskey & Cigarettes. You can live with very happily them. And it just ain't bothering with, if you have to live to without. Although that time draws a lot quicker if you do indulge. Diddums. I'm going to miss all the excitement with nappies and Alzheimer's at the end. Woe is me!

As regards that 08/09 thing you had, I think most have done that in our time. I believe it was Woody Allen once said about unreciprocated love...

Quoted from WA Oh, now there's only one kind of love that lasts. That's unrequited love. It stays with you forever.

And of course, in the mean time, there is addiction and unconsciousness.

R

My goals are rather extensive and go beyond writing. I plan to:

--Produce 2 screenplays in their entirety from acquisition to presentation (have one in pre-prod now)
--Present Fempiror Books 2 and 3 (Book 2 is finished as a first draft right now)
--Complete concept albums for 2 musicals I wrote a long time ago (have one that's about halfway through recording the instrumental parts now)

That makes me 2 movies, 2 book, and 2 albums. Potentially, each movie has a soundtrack, which would mean 4 albums, though I hope to not have to write the music for all of them.

At the moment, I'd really like to get over this sinus infection... It really, really blows (my nose).

Quoted from Niles_Crane Not writing related

It does. And you just proved it, aren't you?

I suppose it is, isn't it? I never looked at it like that. Everything in life is writing related really, as it feeds into our work.

I should say that I am unlucky in love (I should take up cards), and always have been.

There is a Woody Allen film, "Play It Again, Sam" - I identify strongly with the central character (Allan Felix). Indeed, I did think of using that as my username instead of NC.

In one scene, he is on a date with a professed nymphomaniac. She tells him she believes in having sex anywhere, anytime, and with anyone!

He jumps on her, not surprisingly, and she slaps his face and asks "What kind of girl do you take me for?"

Believe me, this is the kind of thing that could happen to me!

How did we get on to this topic?

Just because like you said "Everything in life is writing related really, as it feeds into our work."

We're both old enough to know that...  

Did you realize that sometimes our work is better when you feel down?.......

Quoted from Niles_Crane There is a Woody Allen film, "Play It Again, Sam"

Classic Woody comedy.

Allan: That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it?
Museum Girl: Yes, it is.
Allan: What does it say to you?
Museum Girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of Man forced to live in a barren, Godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos.
Allan: What are you doing Saturday night?
Museum Girl: Committing suicide.
Allan: What about Friday night?

Dick: I'll be at 362-9296 for a while; then I'll be at 648-0024 for about fifteen minutes; then I'll be at 752-0420; and then I'll be home, at 621-4598. Yeah, right George, bye-bye.
Linda: There's a phone booth on the corner. You want me to run downstairs and get the number? You'll be passing it.

Allan: You want a Fresca with a Darvon?
Linda: Unless you have apple juice.
Allan: Apple juice and Darvon is fantastic together!
Linda: Have you ever had Librium and tomato juice?
Allan: No, I haven't personally, but another neurotic tells me they're unbelievable.
Dick: Could I get a coke with nothing in it?

Quoted from James McClung Write a romantic comedy.

Muhuhahahaha...Come to the dark side that is the light and airy side.


As far as goals, I'll get back to you guys on that.  As of now, I don't really have any.

Quoted from Niles_Crane Not writing related (unless she's a muse, of course), but this is something I wouldn't mind either. I spent most of 2008/9 madly in love with a woman who didn't even acknowledge I existed! (This may have affected the tone of my recent work!). It would be nice for 2010 to find someone who reciprocated my interest.

Oh, I've been there and back, Niles. Recently, too. But she did inspire me to write again, just out of nowhere. So yeah, I guess she's my muse.

Quoted from Niles_Crane I suppose it is, isn't it? I never looked at it like that. Everything in life is writing related really, as it feeds into our work. I should say that I am unlucky in love (I should take up cards), and always have been. There is a Woody Allen film, "Play It Again, Sam" - I identify strongly with the central character (Allan Felix). Indeed, I did think of using that as my username instead of NC. In one scene, he is on a date with a professed nymphomaniac. She tells him she believes in having sex anywhere, anytime, and with anyone! He jumps on her, not surprisingly, and she slaps his face and asks "What kind of girl do you take me for?" Believe me, this is the kind of thing that could happen to me! How did we get on to this topic?

Trying really hard not to turn this into a therapy session... 'cause frankly I could use it, too. And I'm sure others could as well.

My goals are pretty straight forward, read and write more.  I'm so lazy when it comes to writing, I come with a great idea, plan it and then spend days writing the first page, I need motivation aghhh!!!

I'm also going to read more, I probably owe a lot of reads by now.  I did say I was going to read the 7WC's but I about to start Sean's 'Solium' first.  If I do owe anyone a read please let me know, I'm very forgetful...it's my age.

I'm in the same boat as most here - write more features. That's it.

I doubt I'll be doing any shorts unless I get an idea too good to ignore, but that's doubtful.