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.