Archive for May, 2006

Things are heating up.

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

It does not take a genius to notice that things are heating up in the world. Like everyone else, I use electricity and gas for fuel. Until recently, I was always concerned with conservation but I never thought deeply about the effect of all those greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere.

Media like the show Too Hot Not to Handle on cable make a showcase about how important and powerful it is to make these types of changes.

After watching this show, and following the links on the web site for that show. I found out about the stopglobalwarming.org website. You should check it out.

I believe that the time to act is now! Because it will take time for the efforts we make to reverse the way things are. The cumulative effect of repetitive use of fossil fuels contributed to this situation, so the cumulative effect of people trying alternative methods of travel and fuel use will eventually at least halt the negative direction things are moving in. The only way we will have a voice is to unite, because one voice alone will never be heard under the clanging of the social and economic machine that is driving the world right now. But it will take more than just signing online, it will take making purchasing decisions on a daily basis that will drive the message home – car companies and oil companies and power companies don’t care about petitions, they only care about how much money that people spend – or don’t spend – on their products.

Things are heating up but perhaps we can stop this negative turn of events. Check out the link to the stopglobalwarming.org site and join the march!

From Screenplay to Book to Screenplay

Friday, May 5th, 2006

It’s been a while – but yesterday I found the inspiration I needed to push me toward finishing my book. Between major time consuming projects for Aeon, I am working on my novel. Not to mention painting the house and summer traveling. The book is now taking definite form, which is nice.

The story and characters have lived in my mind for many years, only taking smokey less-than-concrete shape when I wrote the treatment and the first draft of the screenplay [all 30 pages of it]. When I decided to expand to a full commercial length script, I found myself pouring over notes and trying to firm up back history and personality development of the characters. That’s when I decided to write the full novel, finally allowing these people in the story to have a fuller, richer experience.

At certain points, one of the characters will defy my original concept of who and what they are. Changes, like a summer breeze, sweep over me. Opening my mind, I embrace these changes. The story is evolving.

Once the book is complete, I have only to translate it back into a screenplay. There is much to look forward to.