Screenwriting

I’ve decided that my next project is going to be working on another script.

I’m not sure why I’m so interested in writing screenplays at the moment, but I’m not going to question it. If writing screenplays can fuel my creative life these days, I’m fine with that.

Storytelling has always been important to me.

As a kid, I listened to Paint Your Wagon and Camelot over and over again. I wrote short stories in grade school. I wrote an adaptation of The Hobbit in third grade that I convinced my fifth-grade class to perform. I played the role of Gandalf on stage before Ian McKellan gave the definitive portrayal of the wizard in Peter Jackson’s movies.

Doing theater was very important to me in high school. I played Rodney in Fred Carmichael’s play Done to Death. I played the “mean, old, bus-driving man” in the musical Funky Winkerbean’s Homecoming. I played Joe, the Cheerleader, in Cheaper by the Dozen. I even wrote a radio play about a group of teenagers making a real difference in the world after their plane went down.

And stories have been a huge part of my life ever since.

It’s time to make at least a few of my stories come alive!