Stacy Leicht's Lounge Discussions

Hope you do great on your Commerce exam, Malinka Chandrasekara! You could make a collaboration post on the Job Board when you're ready to find a writing partner (www.stage32.com/find-jobs).

I’m currently working on seven screenplays. Three are finished, two are ready for international competitions, one is too deep to be understood just yet, and the seventh… is writing itself, dictated by a truth that won’t let me sleep. My day job slows me down a bit, but I’m already at 80 pages and getting close to the finish line. What’s holding me back? Only the fact that sometimes ideas come too fast and I don’t have enough pages to catch them all. But that’s alright. Masterpieces don’t ask if you have time they demand to exist. I just catch them mid-air. See you at the top, fellow writers. And yes I’m dangerous. I have no friends when it comes to my craft.

I'm wrapping up my first draft of "Therapy Sessions". A female lead thriller that finds the client of a newly licensed shrink turns out to be the person that kidnapped and killed her younger sister 12 years earlier. It seems she was his original target and is now trapped by client/patient privilege from disclosing this information. So, what's her work-around? That involves her mentor from med school, her mother and her former boyfriend now a member of an Irish mob.

I'm currently working on my 10th feature Snowblind: When a plane carrying paramilitary bank robbers crashes in the Arctic, veteran search-and-rescue mountaineer Cassie Ward and her team are sent to locate survivors—but when the robbers massacre her crew, Cassie flees into an abandoned research facility as a deadly whiteout storm hits. Hunted and haunted by the avalanche that killed her sister, Cassie must survive the killers, the cold, and her own trauma—while her pilot boyfriend and two FBI agents race against time to find her before the storm, or the robbers, claim her life.

A HUGE video game script with many options. Like RED DEAD, but with mystical visions, and a true story (mostly) from a chauffeur/security driver/bodyguard that witnessed the worst and best of humanity, first hand. Redemption and revenge, archangels and demons...they are real in his world.

Complex video game scripts are like 3 full features in one. 55558 words so far-adding the options now. It's about done. Did I do one before? Never. One of my co-writers, a stage 32 person, has played them for decades, so he knows the option language.

Try something HUGE and new. Why not? Grow or die.

And rewriting another thriller at Philip Lee's suggestion. Also on stage 32.

Open to writing anything about anything for anyone anywhere. I am VERY quick.

I don't know much about screenplays but there are experts in our Stage32 community that know all! Welcome!

Hello Stacy. I echo what DE White said. It depends if you’re looking to adapt it yourself or have somebody else do it. Screenwriting is a very different skill but many authors have done it.

I don't have a background with screenwriting so I’d need an agent to help. Thanks everyone!

Hi Stacy! I do this kind of work all the time. Here's an article I wrote about a few of the unique challenges :)

https://www.ghostwords.com/adapting-a-book-into-a-screenplay/

Hi Stacy Leicht - I'd also recommend this Stage 32 webinar on the adaptation journey from book to film/TV. Micky Levy gives great advice: https://www.stage32.com/education?p=8944891724083

Hi, Stacy Leicht. Stage 32 has an Authoring & Playwriting Lounge (www.stage32.com/lounge/playwriting). You could make a post asking for advice on how to get your manuscript(s) made into screenplay(s).

Maurice- thank you for answering my question. I’ll look into the group.- Stacy

You're welcome, Stacy Leicht.

Welcome stacy

Welcome!!

Welcome to the community and congrats on publishing your children's book, Stacy Leicht! I also live in North Carolina. Eastern Carolina.

Here's a blog that might help you navigate Stage 32: https://www.stage32.com/blog/navigating-stage-32-for-your-best-experienc...

Hope you have a great time on Stage 32 and hope you find success on here.

Thank you for the link!

You're welcome, Stacy Leicht.