{"id":390,"date":"2019-09-24T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T11:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=390"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:21:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T11:21:44","slug":"two-down-one-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/09\/24\/two-down-one-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Down, One To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/austinfilmfestival.com\/submit\/screenplay-and-teleplay-submissions-2\/\">Austin Film Festival screenplay contest<\/a> finally announced those who made it into the next round.\u00a0 Twern&#8217;t me &#8211; my <a href=\"\/RedDom\/\">Dominatrix<\/a> script didn&#8217;t make the cut. Sad, but not shocking.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still awaiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.film.virginia.org\/virginians\/virginia-screenwriting-competition\/\">Virginia Film Office&#8217;s<\/a> decision; I think they do so in October.<\/p>\n<p>I have, however, started thinking down another path for my dominatrix trilogy.\u00a0 Rather than trying to make the first, then hope and pray it&#8217;ll sell enough tickets to justify the second (and that sells enough to justify a third), I&#8217;m considering reworking it as a miniseries that&#8217;ll be 6-7 hours long.\u00a0 I really view the trilogy as a single story, though I put in what I felt were natural cut places where the story slowed down.\u00a0 I feel strongly I can adapt the story to work as hour-long episodes.<\/p>\n<p>And writers, it seems, can successfully sell a miniseries to a network (since my story appears to appeal more to women, I&#8217;d target networks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mylifetime.com\/\">Lifetime<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wetv.com\/\">We<\/a>).\u00a0 The next question, for me, anyway, is can I direct it, since that&#8217;s where my interests lie.\u00a0 Someone I trust suggested I might be able to direct a later episode, but could easily (well, nothing in this business is actually easy) get in as writer and producer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s something I need to think about, as I may wind up giving up so much control that it robs me of any joy in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Film Festival screenplay contest finally announced those who made it into the next round.\u00a0 Twern&#8217;t me &#8211; my Dominatrix script didn&#8217;t make the cut. Sad, but not shocking.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still awaiting the Virginia Film Office&#8217;s decision; I think they do so in October. I have, however, started thinking down another path for my dominatrix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/09\/24\/two-down-one-to-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Down, One To Go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dominatrix-wore-red"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}