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Garden Variety Aliens
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Garden Variety Aliens Win
January 16, 2024
Garden Variety Aliens has made it onto the Red List again on Coverfly! This time it’s in the top 31% of discoverable projects on Coverfly! It’s marked as a Two Award Finalist!
Happy Canada Day!
Hope everyone had a great Canada Day! I went to the airport and picked up Jessica after her three week trip to Europe! More on that later, but she participated in FEST! A film festival for emerging directors and students. Her latest film was shown there. More photos once I get permission 🙂
June was great for writing. I got another flash done for the Wordos Solstice night, which makes me happy.
2023 LCPA Pilot SCREENPLAY ACCOLADE
So pleased to get a Coverfly accolade – Top 37% for LCPA the Pilot! It received very nice coverage from the TSL Free Screenplay competition this month which gave its own accolade! This is significant because this competition gets close to twelve thousand entries!
January 2023
Thinking about annual goals is difficult for me. I hate setting wildly optimistic ones but later having to admit, that life and the day job got in the way of the creative writing.
Maybe the best thing for me in 2023 is to have a few key phrases to stand in for formal goals:
- Create inventory
- Do the writing
- Get to a conference or a film market
I think many writers put undue pressure on ourselves I regards to performance goals.. Every screenwriter thinks they should output more. Every novelist is in awe of someone who writes more novels per year than they do. I believe the key is still balance. Those who sacrifice quality of writing for quantity of words don’t keep their audiences. Balance is key, write as much as you can write well.
December 29, 2022
My between Christmas and New Year activity proceeds. The ‘knitting’ MOW that now takes place at Christmas is my first priority, but I’m also getting a few short stories out to SFF markets.
Happy USA Thanksgiving
Jessica and I are “Film Gals” and I thought I’d share our Happy USA Thanksgiving card.
New writing news? I’ve got a lot of submissions out there again for short stories. Working on revisions of the three that I had WORDOS critique.
December News
Coverfly Pitch Week 2021
Excellent news! LCPA and my profile have combined to get me noticed! I’m part of Coverfly’s excellent Pitch Week program. We had an information call this week and then the invitations were sent out. I’m really excited to have a meeting as only about half of those chosen get actual meetings. They do a lot of work to interest industry professionals and get our materials in front of them.
For more information on Coverfly click here.
Best Film Awards Win!
Jessica R.J. Fraser just won another Laurel for her short film Seashells! She is named as a semi-finalist in the Best Film Awards, Best Director competition out of London, England. We’re very pleased to have her work recognized internationally!
To view click here: Seashells
To find out about the Best Film Awards, follow @best_film_awards