Monday, January 07, 2008

Amusement Park

This afternoon I sent a handful of people my first public draft of Amusement Park, the screenplay I began developing as part of Boston University’s Summer screenwriting course.  The class only workshopped the first 30 pages, and I’ve been tinkering and hammering on my own time since the end of The Wasteland Comedy Hour.  It’s thrilling to be able to share my work, and solicit honest feedback from people I trust.  One of the few things I really miss about college are creative writing workshops.  Even at their most pretentious and pointless, there’s something safe about being able to discuss and critique the craft of writing with your aspiring peers.  From what I’ve seen, equivalent experiences in the real world are rare.

This is my first real attempt at writing a feature, and I’d like to get the story tight enough that I’d feel comfortable adding it to my portfolio, or sending it to a grad school admissions department.  We’ll see what happens as feedback starts trickling in.