Development Heaven

If you develop screenplays in Hollywood, you experience what they call Development Hell.  You might come up with a great script, but your star doesn’t like it.  Or the studio says it’s too expensive, or the main character should be a guy instead of a girl.    And you’re back to square one.  I had one of the best gigs ever, working with Bette Midler at Disney Studios and oh it could be so frustrating.  Nature of the Beast.     

In The Art of Story Master Classes I work with 20 or so writers who are developing novels, screenplays, and short form material for the web.  It’s dreamy!  We’ve got a handful of novels almost ready to go out to market.  One of them is a hilarious black comedy that wants to be a commercial movie in the worst way.  A couple of sweeping epics with gorgeous writing.  A funny and filthy animated web series.   

What a great gig for me this time.  I get to work and work and work on this material with these gifted writers.  We have no interference (for now) and we can focus our energy entirely on the material.

LIfe is good.