if only I could get paid to do this...

I did it - I wrote my first script as part of the scriptfrenzy project. Twenty-thousand words in 30 days. I ended with 20,058 words and a really bad first draft of a screenplay. But first drafts can always be edited into better second drafts. We'll see how I do with that.

My screenplay was inspired by Longfellow's "Evangeline" poem. I read the poem after having read The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. The same day I read the poem, I also heard Matthew Sweet's "Evangeline" on the radio. That pretty much decided me on a character name.

I now have to do a couple of things: go buy some Matthew Sweet CDs (do you know he's in a cover band with Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles? They're known as Sid and Susie), re-read The Divine Comedy, and go visit Craigie House. Research to improve the next draft, you know.