Back to Work

I have been back working on scripts since the last post, honestly! I can't say it hasn’t been on my mind and that I don’t oscillate between loving my curves and my body and skipping dinner because I just don’t want to be called fat anymore. At least I haven’t been too preoccupied with my body to write.

I’m working on two scripts at once. Retail Therapy and Disfigured. Tim just finished reading my crazy rough draft of Retail Therapy and now I’m thinking it’s almost time to work on it again.

Except Disfigured is coming so easily to me, I wonder why I ever decided to venture into comedy and black comedy. The good, old-fashioned thriller makes me so much happier. Maybe because I grew up on this genre, I feel like I know where a story like this can go.

I also have had mixed feelings from people on my writer’s group about Retail Therapy. From things like: “Being addicted to shopping is a real problem and not funny” and “People will be offended that you’re making light of a real addiction” and “Characters should not die in a comedy, even if it is a black comedy”. I brought up the Coen Brothers’ movie Intolerable Cruelty and I mostly got blank stares from people. I guess nobody has seen this movie. Go put it on your queue on netflix right now! It’s a must see.

I’ve managed to go whole three paragraphs without talking about women and their bodies! Progress… : )