Writer Obscura

I met all my writing goals for this summer.

Yes, abandoning the ‘4 Kings’ novel nags at me, but the outline is complete—as is the dialogue and the first five chapters—I can return to it anytime.

 Technically, The Lion & The Owl is a gay comedic serial, so it qualifies under the accomplishments umbrella for what I set out to do this summer. Sometimes, a new project keeps my momentum from stalling, and TL&TO did when the motivation to continue 4 Kings began fading.

My writer’s group meets at the end of September, and I got ZERO done on The Kill List. Other than that initial first-person chapter, NOTHING. We’ll see where my muse takes me next month.

August started the revisions period for We’re Not Brothers, my actual ‘first screenplay.’ After years of cobbling together writer’s room ideas and forming stories around someone else’s characters, working on your original story just hits different. I’m resisting the urge to storyboard. I’ll never direct on my own, and handing over a boarded story to an interested director is like telling them, I don’t trust your vision.

I completed chapter outlines for the final three episodes of TL&TO’s invasion arc. It’s a sombre arc filled with fight scenes, murder, and grit. The second arc has way too much unintentional comedy, most of it physical, and I hope that doesn’t alter the expectations of those reading for battle scenes or sexual tension.

Today, I return to jogging the rails to trails, as the indoor lap pool and gym at my Y won’t re-open until September 3rd. I’ve been feeling the drag on my metabolism these past two weeks, and it’s unpleasant.