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 What's going on in the studio? 

The studio is the table in front of the west window. The table where my computer is located. The laptop is also my streaming entertainment center and contains my current writing projects. The table is also where I eat the hearty meals I create, send and receive phone calls, sketch, and paint.

As my regular readers know, I have switched my writing from long fiction to screenplay formats. I began by writing an original piece titled Two Many Wives. One man and two women decided to become married to build a family together. The story is not so much about society's acceptance of this lifestyle, but how the challenges of a domestic household are handled when there are more than two people involved.

Then I took a Rom-Com I was writing as a novel, Star Struck, and rewrote it as a screenplay. It's about a single man running a business consulting firm. His life is filled with the daily challenges of his growing business. His workplace mother enters him in a contest that would allow him to meet and dine with the star of his guilty pleasure TV program. What follows is deception, intrigue, and a never-planned romance that only the entertainment business could produce.

I continued adapting some long fiction into a screenplay, using Thorton Community Repertory Theater. It is a tale about a theater company in a small town approaching their fiftieth year only to find they might be going broke. An unexpected challenge shows how to avoid disaster for the theater company and the town that depends on it, but will everyone accept the challenge? Heavy on love, laughter, and larceny, this group faces the dilemma of doing the right thing. The question is, do they do the right thing for themselves or for the theater company?

Then to change things up a bit, I wrote a short piece about an elderly man who takes a slip and fall incident into horror territory. He becomes trapped in the well-meaning clutches of people trying to rehabilitate him from his injuries, only to condemn him to a life without independence. I call it, Jaimeson, Resistance Is Futile.

Finally, I wrote an original screenplay I call Seduction. A young female attorney is assigned to get information from a guy who doesn't want to cooperate. She is not representing law enforcement. This is a nasty illegal fight between two mega-corporations. This journey includes espionage, betrayal, and romance. It answers the question: What does it take for a woman to learn and survive in this environment.

All of these projects are in various stages of completion. Somedays I work on one of them, other days I work on two. It's like my oil paintings. I might let them dry for a day or two before working on the details.





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  1. mmDecember 7, 2021 at 11:03 AM

    Sounds great! Love the Jamieson, Resistance is Futile title. xo

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