Thus spoke zarathustra... I love that book. I used to have it til I lent it to my friend. I haven't seen him or the book since. You should listen to bright eyes, too. I think you'd like em.

Hello All...
Ok...I'm Francis Scott Kessler.  Call me Scott or I'll eat your flesh.
I'm 32 years old, born in Merced, California and currently living in Kansas City, Missouri with my wife Jennifer, who is a high school teacher.  I work as a paralegal.  Now that the boring vital statistics are out of the way, let's do the fun part.

I listen to aggressive music that covers a wide range of genres: Iron Maiden, The Misfits, Jawbreaker, The Pixies, Thrice, The Alkaline Trio, Fugazi, The Used, Alice in Chains, etc.

My Favorite movies go on forever: Reservoir Dogs ,Once Upon a Time in China, Pulp Fiction, The Boondock Saints, Boogie Nights, Unbreakable, The (original) Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones (all three), Hard Boiled, Full Contact, The Usual Suspects, The Road Warrior, Unforgiven, Memento, Spider-Man, True Romance, From Dusk til Dawn, The Matrix, Excalibur, The Exorcist, The Wicker Man, Alien, Aliens, THe Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Angel Heart, Rocky (1, 2, 3, & 5...4 sucks), The Killer, My Father is a Hero (Jet Li, not Gerard Depardeau), The Green Mile, The Sure Thing,  Office Space, Friday, Brotherhood of the Wolf...I could go on forever.  I'm also an obsessive fan of Hong Kong film,  co-authored two books on the subject and own a respectable collection of said films.

I read a lot: James Ellroy, Stephen King, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, Chuck Pahliniuk, the occasional John Grisham, old British texts on King Arthur, mythology, religious texts from all over the world and my obsessive love of comic books (Hellblazer, Batman, Daredevil, Sin City, Preacher, Spider-Man, WATCHMEN, V for Vendetta, The Crow, etc).  I worked as an underground comics writer in the mid 90's on a title called DARQUE OF NIGHT, as well as writing role-playing and wargame manuals freelance.  I've just completed work on my first full-length novel entitled OASIS, TX.  I'm editing it now with the hopes of publication within the next couple of years. 

I've completed two original screenplays (GREEN RIVER and THE MERCY HOUSE SPLIT) and two comic adaptations (JOHN CONSTANTINE: HELLBLAZER and HELLBLAZER II: ROYAL BLOOD).  With the exception of MERCY HOUSE (which I'm editing), the others can be found here for your perusal.

Favorite screenwriters: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Chris Nolan, Robert Towne, David Koepp.

Favorite Directors: Quentin Tarantino, John Woo (his Hong Kong work...his American movies, with the exception of FACE-OFF, suck), Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark, Robert Rodriguez, P.T. Anderson, Martin Scorsese, The Wachowski Brothers, Sam Raimi, George Romero, Brian Singer...on and on...

If you have any questions, hit me...and Alan, I'm flattered that you list me among your favorite writers.

See ya all later!

Green River was fun to read.  Sorry I didn't give nearly enough criticism for it.  I finally saw some HELLBLAZER comics at a local comic shop which I should go to more often.  It looks like a good comic.  But instead of buying it, I'll read your HELLBLAZER scripts...eventually.

Quoted from FSKessler, posted October 27th, 2003, 1:48pm at here Hello All... Ok...I'm Francis Scott Kessler.  Call me Scott or I'll eat your flesh.

My names Francis, but people call me Psyco.  Call me Francis, and Ill kill ya.  Also I dont like people touchin me.  Any a you.....homos.....touch my stuff, and ill kill ya.

Drill Serg:  Oh lightin up, Francis

I'm saying, Luke.  If he doesn't want to be called by his first name, better not start, huh?  Make peace, not war.

I love STRIPES.  Good call.

Hi, my name is Brooks and I live in Houston, Tx.  I'm 32 years old and am just starting out with trying to write screenplays.  I was a physician for a few years before deciding to give that up to pursue other interests.  My musical taste runs the gamut, from Sinatra to Snoop Dog.  I also have to mention the Flaming Lips - great band.  My favorite directors include Kubrick, Scorsese, the Coen brothers, and Hitchcock. 
I'm glad I found this site, though I do feel a bit old.  I like everyone's enthusiasm for writing.  I'll try to read as many scripts as I can and provide constructive feedback. 

It's all good...I'm 32 too.

Name: Ross Cooper
Age: 27
Height: 6 ft. 4In.
Weight 155lbs.

I was born in Nottingham England in 1976. And in the early 80's I moved to California. In '88 I moved back to The British Isles, this time living in N.Ireland for 4 years. In 1991...we moved back to California and have lived there ever since.

At the age of Ten I found that I was a very creative writer and I have been writing ever since. I've written plays for various groups and activties, written Poems for weddings and funerals- and written full length scripts.

My first full length script to be completed was Memorial Day a sequal to Independence Day- it was a co-writing project..and came out alright. During the writing of MD I was doing research and review for all sorts of aspects of my Terminator 3 script.

T3:FR took a total of 8 years to script and guide through it's 5 drafts. The main reason for this is I took the process very seriously. I felt as if I had to answer to cameron and deliver something worthy as a follow up. Judging from the responses I get even now three years after release...it seems I did my job.

Since I completed T3 I turned to other projects.

Strange December- Post Nuclear Survival/Thriller
Secluded Fear- Horror/Thriller Set on Alcatraz Island
Reverse Psychology- Action/Thriller

All of the above projects are in varying degrees of Pre-production and research.

My current projects in Active/Fast-tracked development are-

Terminator: Years of Darkness (Continued off T3: RoTM)

and

Terminator: The Machine Wars (Continued off Terminator: Years of Darkness)

Once again I'm taking a great deal of care in writing these projects sice I care deeply about maintaining a high level of conviction and solidarity in the franchise.

From a musical standpoint I mostly listen to Motion Picture Scores..as it stands my 3 disc changer is filled with Terminator music at the moment- Terminator: Definitive Edition Score, Terminator 3 Score and Terminator 3: Unreleased Score.

If anyone wishes to read my T3 script and post their reviews I'd appreciate it. We might start a page for review at the official website for my script.

Cheers...

Nice to meet you all.

RB

Ross, where in CA are you?

Bizarrly small world there RossBond as i was born in Nottingham as well and in the same year - odd.  If you were born in August i'll be freaked out by coincedences!

Similarity's end there though as i didn't move to California - i ended up in Derbyshire

Quoted from lesleyjl21, posted November 3rd, 2003, 12:27am at here Ross, where in CA are you?

Redlands California...down near all the fires.

tommyd2 I was born in July.

But yes it is a small world indeed.

My name is Leta Moore Swearengin and I look for dead people.

Seriously.

I'm a professional genealogist (which helps to pay the bills) and yeah -- I'm a screenwriter. I live in Corpus Christi, Texas by way of the Land of Oz. I'm married to a guitar slinger and  love the blues. I have 3 grown children which now I think it's kind of neat that I started so young because I have a great buddy/mom relationship with them and am amazed that I had a hand in the fantastic adults they have become.

As a writer I have heard over and over -- WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW.
I'm assuming that fate meant for me to be a writer considering the wealth of experiences life has handed me. I buried both my parents by the age of seven. I have lived in orphanges and foster homes. I had my 3 children by age 22 and was widowed by the time I turned 24.. I have experienced and survived more death than you can imagine. I've lived through the pain of suicide, murder and abuse at the hand of a pervert. At one point in my life I believed abandonment must be my middle name. So writing what I know tends to be character driven scripts ususally film noirs because I have been the star of one all my life.

Some of my favorite films are Slingblade, The Man Who Wasn't There, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellows, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, The 3 faces of Eve, The Longriders, Rear Window, Blue Skies, Frieda and Memento.
My favorite writers/directers are BBT (if you are a fan you know whom I speak of) The Coen Bros, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and of course Hitchcock. And i do have to give a heads up to Tom Hanks cause everything that dude touches turns to gold.

And now -- finally -- with the help of Mr. F.Scott Kessler I am about to -- finally -- see one of my scripts come to life. Which is going to be very interesting for me considering some of MATFIELD GREEN is based on my parents life and some of the plot twists were actual "incidents".

So as a writer I say to you-- my fellow writers-- that the saying WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW does hold some merit. And I also say best of luck to you.

Hi I'm the Goose. After looking at the tiny little bio I put compared to everyone elses so I decided to give a longer one.


My name is Harry Deckard. And I live in, as Tommy said Sunny England. I have many interests, I screenwrite (a lot), watch lots of movies, take lots
of bike rides and I like to refer to myself as a very amateur Ghosthunter.
My favourite directors are Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino. My favourite
movies are: Once upon a time in America, Terminator, American Pie (all 3),
Unforgiven, Blade Runner, Alien, Predator, Vampires, The Thing...and the
list is endless.


My favourite writers are Quentin Tarantino and....some of the guys on here
are quite good.  Um, I like in music: Avril Lavigne, Nirvana, any rap and
I have a soft spot for Bruce Springsteen and Western movies. I've written about four scripts, and I NEVER bother to do re-writes. It just seems so pointless. If I just see a mistake! I think it's art...pure.

Wow.  Now I want to see MATFEILD GREEN.  I hope you keep writing, because you're a very interesting person.  A lot of my writing stems from my experiences as well, so I support your statement of WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW completely!  Every scene in the first two episodes of THE CREATOR contains masked-references to actual people in my life.  In my comedy BANANA CHAN, the character named Buster is A LOT like I was at his age -- lovesick poet who's sucessfully dealing with issues of suicidal tendancies.  Even the character named BANANA CHAN is based on several real people.  Banana's personality is based on a girl I ...love.  Her situation is based on a girl I hate.  Or at least, that's how she started; she has since developed into her own unique individual.  But we should talk about you, because you won.  Congrats!