So I guess I’m not too good at this whole blogging thing, huh? The problem is, I’ve just been too damn busy living life to write about it!
In the last couple of months, Michelle and I celebrated our first anniversary with a wine-tasting trip in Niagara-on-the-Lake, went hiking in the Adirondacks, traveled to Salem, Mass. with her mom and sis for the town’s annual Haunted Happenings event, and took the Montreal Alouettes “Fan Train” to Toronto to watch our team kick some Argo ass.
I also spent a few days in Los Angeles (where I was finally able to attend Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights event) before coming home and working myself to the bone organizing and putting on our own haunted house at the high school I work at. “Professor Morbid’s House of Horror” was a huge success and I look forward to terrorizing the kiddies again next year.
Last week I met Peter Lenkov (successful screenwriter and executive producer of “CSI:New York”). He had tons of great advice.
This past weekend Michelle and I traveled to Boston to fulfill a long-standing dream of watching the New England Patriots in action. We met up with our good friends Kevin and Danielle, tailgated for four hours, made many new friends, and headed into Gillette Stadium to watch Matt Cassell lead the Pats to a 20-10 win over the Buffalo Bills. Good times…
All this on top of teaching full-time and continuing to promote my script, All Hallows Eve. Whew!
In spite of all this insanity, I have managed to get some work done, though. Right now I’m the process of polishing a new screenplay called Remedial. It’s the story of a hotshot high-school teacher who learns a few important lessons of his own when he’s forced to spend a year teaching one of the school’s remedial classes. It’s a bit of a departure for me in that it’s not dark or depressing or filled with blood and screaming. It’s actually a pretty lighthearted drama/comedy and at first I wasn’t sure I could pull it off. But I gave it a shot and finished the first draft in late August. I then let it sit until recently when I began reading it again. After over two months, I still like it. With a few more revisions, this could be my most accessible and marketable script yet.
So that’s about it for now. There’s some really big news on the horizon, but you’ll all have to wait for another post. Hopefully, I’ll find the time to update this place more often!