So I cast my four leads, then got some bad news. The actress I initially cast for the role of Velma was basically being forced to join SAG and could no longer work non-union projects. While the incremental cost/effort of …
Month: August 2018
Song for a Lost Kingdom, Book I – Steve Moretti
I beta read for Steve a while ago (over a year, according to my notes) and really loved his story. The only thing I didn’t like was that it didn’t end and I have to wait until he can make …
Oh, the Horror!
I’ve been pursuing a next project, even though I haven’t even started filming Treasure Hunt, let alone had any sort of success with it (I’m just that sort of guy; can’t help myself). It’s a period biopic about the …
Independent Validation
I’ve been looking at posts on Reddit’s r/Screenwriting area for a while and seeing so many fellow writers trying to understand why their brilliant scripts (who knows if that’s true, but I expect at least a number are) fail to …
Mr. Holmes
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Yesterday we went to watch Fallout at the theater. My wife’s got some sort of deal that gets us in for $5 a person (of course, we’re also going at 3:30 in the afternoon) as well as some kind of …
More on Auditions
I’m almost done with auditions, and about ready to start the agonizing process of selecting who to cast. There have been a number of surprises in this process, though. I was initially contacted by 66 people for one or more …
My First Audition!
Sunday I had my very first audition. Crystal Day lives in Charlottesville, which is much closer to the Shenandoah house than our Maryland house. We were scheduling an audition for Monday night when I discovered this, so suggested she visit …