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Returning to my script-writing roots!
Returning to my script-writing roots!
My writing career began with 30 years of on-demand scripts, and lately, I've been feeling the itch to write for the stage again. Specifically, as I was reading a collecting of short stories by the late great O. Henry, I saw many stories that could play out well in a theater setting. My idea is to weave the stories together, moving from one to another, with actors who play small parts in one story moving to a larger role in the next, and vice versa.
I've adapted eight of the stories so far, and I have five or six left to go. Then I have to figure out the right order. It's been fun writing the scenes that are only glossed over or described in a sentence or two. It's like I get to fill in the blanks--growing the story instead of shrinking it (as so often happens with adaptations).
Alien Invasion Thriller
Alien Invasion Thriller
I'm a huge fan of Michael Crichton books (Timeline, Prey.... He's the Jurassic Park guy), so I thought I'd try my hand at a sci fi thriller with an undetectable alien invasion theme. The trick (beyond figuring out how to vanquish the aliens, of course) is creating that marvelous spiraling plot structure where several seemingly unrelated threads all wind into one dramatic conclusion. Crichton makes it look easy. It isn't.
It's a major departure from anything I've done before, so I can't rely on many of my acquired skills. Snappy dialogue doesn't really drive this kind of drama, after all.
The working title is Echoes of the Incursion, and this is the draft cover design. Like many authors, I like to make one of these up and pin it to my desktop as encouragement to get the job done. Because.... shiny! I want that beauty to be real!
This will take me well into 2026 because I have a preschooler underfoot much of the time. In the meantime, I'm outlining, and diagramming, and researching odd things like phlebotomy, sound engineering, and municipal government structures. If you ever want to boggle your mind, check the search history of a writer friend.
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