Xander digs waiting...
Nine days removed from my script going out to the town and I'm going fucking mad. On the good side, those who have passed have been overwhelmingly positive in their assessment. The most common reasons producers have given have been the the script is "too dark to set up" or had "problems in the third act." Fair enough, I say, particularly since it appears that I will have about twenty-five meetings born of the process.
And from meetings, writing assignments are born.
The frustrating thing is that at the end of the day, when no huge offer to buy (or any offer at all) has come in, I sort of make peace with myself. I sit back and say "okay. Nobody's bought and the game is up. Let's move on to the next thing." I say it mantrically, repeating the notion until I start to believe it myself. Then Dave calls.
He enthusiastically tells me that SKIN is not dead. That this or that studio is making interesting noises (or at least hasn't passed). That there is still a real chance of selling the piece.
Then those damndable little hopes and anticipations spring up again. I don't know. I think that there are many folks out there with the kind of focus to drown out the chaos of trying to sell the current project in favor of creating a new one, but not me. I'm obsessing despite myself.
Onto some brief notes on things other than me. The season premiere of BUFFY was absolutely fantastic. I have very high hopes for this season.
Stephen King's From A Buick 8 is by all accounts a scary yarn of the highest order. I'll be plunking down a chunk of my paycheck this week for that. If anyone can take my mind off things, it'll be Steve.
Also on the literary front, I am extremely excited to see that Donna Tartt's new novel The Little Friend is coming out in November. Some of you may remember the long-winded appreciation of Tartt I wrote here, so this is amazing news. Ten years between novels. Makes my output seem positively prolific.
Finally, I discovered that Caitlin R. Kiernan has a journal. Caitlin is a very good author of dark fantasy and horror. Those of you who are comics readers will remember her as the chief architect of the Sandman spinoff, The Dreaming. More, she's also apparently championing some kind of "Save Farscape" campaign, so you wacky kids who love the show might get a kick out of her outraged venom.
Off to more waiting.
And from meetings, writing assignments are born.
The frustrating thing is that at the end of the day, when no huge offer to buy (or any offer at all) has come in, I sort of make peace with myself. I sit back and say "okay. Nobody's bought and the game is up. Let's move on to the next thing." I say it mantrically, repeating the notion until I start to believe it myself. Then Dave calls.
He enthusiastically tells me that SKIN is not dead. That this or that studio is making interesting noises (or at least hasn't passed). That there is still a real chance of selling the piece.
Then those damndable little hopes and anticipations spring up again. I don't know. I think that there are many folks out there with the kind of focus to drown out the chaos of trying to sell the current project in favor of creating a new one, but not me. I'm obsessing despite myself.
Onto some brief notes on things other than me. The season premiere of BUFFY was absolutely fantastic. I have very high hopes for this season.
Stephen King's From A Buick 8 is by all accounts a scary yarn of the highest order. I'll be plunking down a chunk of my paycheck this week for that. If anyone can take my mind off things, it'll be Steve.
Also on the literary front, I am extremely excited to see that Donna Tartt's new novel The Little Friend is coming out in November. Some of you may remember the long-winded appreciation of Tartt I wrote here, so this is amazing news. Ten years between novels. Makes my output seem positively prolific.
Finally, I discovered that Caitlin R. Kiernan has a journal. Caitlin is a very good author of dark fantasy and horror. Those of you who are comics readers will remember her as the chief architect of the Sandman spinoff, The Dreaming. More, she's also apparently championing some kind of "Save Farscape" campaign, so you wacky kids who love the show might get a kick out of her outraged venom.
Off to more waiting.