The Envelop Please
Every year about this time, I feel a bit sheepish and guilty. It’s the Oscars that get me.
A few years ago, I wrote a script that won the $5,000 grand prize in a screenwriting competition. DH and I flew out to LA, stayed at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel — the hotel attached to the Kodak Theatre and just down the block from Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. I attended workshops and seminars while DH explored Hollywood.
Received this snazzy glass trophy at a fancy dinner, got a write up in Writers Digest. My last name was Clubs in 2003 and it was cool that a Google of my name back then actually came up with something. I really enjoyed my 15 minutes. 
A few agents, a rep for HBO and a rep from Dreamworks all read the script. Unfortunately, the work didn’t sell.
Anyway, after I got home, I started work on another script. I even pitched the synopsis to Ellen Travolta at a different screenwriting event in Santa Fe later that year. She said to send it to her when I get it done. Yeah. That was a few years ago and I still haven’t finished the script. It’s stuck … oh about 2/3′s of the way through the second act.
My husband wishes I’d take writing more serious — I love that he thinks I have talent and I should listen to him, shouldn’t I?
If I write like mad in all my free time, I may be able to enter the Nicholls Fellowship this year. I think the deadline is May 1st …
You should! Get to work on it…we all have dreams we should keep chasing…and you have received some great feedback telling you that you are headed in the right direction!
Inis, my dear, this is a simply fascinating tidbit to find out about you! I personally think your writing talents far exceed screenplays, however…thank you from the bottom of my heart for your comment on my blog today. I needed that!