Hello, since I’ve become a bit of a stranger to these parts lately, I thought I’d better take part in Introduce Yourself Weekend. A lot of you know me, a lot of you have connected with me, many of you are great friends. I would like to make many more so feel free to send me a connection request, pos...
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1922. A dethroned Chinese princess flees to San Francisco after her lover entangles his family’s business with gangsters for her passage. When her lover goes missing, it’s up to her to salvage his reputation by outsmarting the gangsters and uncovering their embezzlement scheme— barely in time to save his life.
A Chinese actress returns to Shanghai to reclaim her son and repay his captor for arranging her escape in the finale of WWII. Now married to an American producer, she is welcomed back under the auspices of becoming the icon for the struggling Shanghai film industry. In an increasingly tumultuous city, she must outsmart dangerous political players to be reunited with her child.
In a rural Midwestern town, three women facing the overlapping challenges of sexual-orientation, abusive men, and racial prejudice find heartrending commonality during a polio epidemic and band together to run a revenge-seeking mobster out of town.
After catastrophic volcano activity pushed humanity to the brink, a Shanghai orphan with an affinity for plant-life, must use her abilities to unravel the mystery of the gargantuan alien Tendrils. While avoiding banishment to the Fleshie side of the wall, she must discover whether the Tendrils are imperative to humanity's survival, or are only days from causing its destruction.
The matriarch of a nest of female Napa Valley psychopaths oversees the next hot-headed generation, but new evidence from a past murderous indiscretion jeopardizes them all. Just as an Old World assassin arrives to avenge a long forgotten crime.
Michigan Cleopatra Travis, former special ops agent, is scouted by Mansotti to join his cadre of elite environmental assassins. Turns out she’s been duped by him to kill innocents who stand in the way of his nefarious political and sadistic dealings. Now she must locate and stop her co-assassins, find the assassin who’s out to killer her, and stop Mansotti - while staying out of the way of a crafty New York City detective.
It's been way too long since I've been here! I've been writing like a fiend and have completed two drama features, a gritty pilot and am wrapping up a second gritty pilot with a dark comedy undertone. I live in Napa, CA, so I love to get connected wherever possible. Don't hesitate to connect!
Glad to have you here, Nell! I'm liking all the grit :-) What are your pilots about?
Hi Dara! One is a Gothic (non-proceedural) crime/suspense drama with a female lead based on a novel I wrote and the other is a Gothic (very) dark comedy about a bunch of murderesses.
Oh man, two of my favorite genres! Please keep me updated on how they're going!
Great to be here among so many passionate others! I've published a novel and was encouraged to move into screenwriting. I'm on the second draft of a feature set in China. Finally, and I don't know why it took me so long to come around, committing to my identity as a writer - it absolutely gives me t...
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Hey Nell--great to meet you. I see on the InkTip newsletter (you pay a modest fee to receive it) that scripts set in China are sometimes requested by executives/companies.
Thank you for the advice! As soon as I finish the second draft and get my logline and query letter exactly where I want them I will pursue this avenue for sure!
Welcome Nell! Lots of great people on Stage 32
Thank you for connecting, Nell! Pleased to meet you!
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I agree @Fiona, I too love this long thread and I'm sure CJ will soon find the eye of the hurricane. @all I had a stale period of writing recently, stemming from rushing around, trying to find the rig...
Expand commentI agree @Fiona, I too love this long thread and I'm sure CJ will soon find the eye of the hurricane. @all I had a stale period of writing recently, stemming from rushing around, trying to find the right new people to pool my creative talents with and learn new technical skills. I was so drained from airport stops, and walking into different Indie groups as a "Stranger" aswell as sharing different digs that I had nothing left in my batteries for my characters. In fact I avoided my characters, because I didn't want to produce "stale or unworthy" writing. LOL In the same way I wouldn't want a friend to be around. However, I didn't avoid altogether, I found a rough book helpful to jot down any swift inspirational "glimmers" poking through the mist. This week I've been looking at my little daft sketches which I do to remind me of the feel of the scene, side by side with the couple of sentences I managed to get down on the page, on the day. It looks like a school kids rough book, BUT I've got several major scenes from the reminder, of the brief inspirations I had on bad days. @Shawn CJ is right, we need pioneers like yourself, who just go out and do whatever it takes to get something off the ground. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.......(Unforgettable Rap!).
CJ. fans are waiting for an update of your month. If The Cat snarls when you at computer, humour with a roast supper. Hope Feature going well.
Sweet update! Thanks for sharing - and - coming back to visit in the lounges on Stage 32!