Musings

It’s interesting you should bring up Star Trek. I’m getting ready to donate my papers to the Williamson Collection at ENMU so I was looking back through old drafts of novels, and scripts I wrote. I found myself sitting down and rereading a couple of Star Trek scripts. One was Measure of a Man, and I’m still proud of it though I would do things better now. There are some baby script writer mistakes in it. Too many points where people enter a room rather than starting the scene with the action already in progress, but it was a pretty good script. It helps when you have history and Dread Scott providing the action.

Another script I reread was Ensigns of Command. You didn’t see this script. You saw something that had the same title, but there was the usual cluster F*&#@ that happens on a tv show, and it got rewritten. As I reread my script I realized this sucker was _good_ I”m thinking about scanning it and publishing it on the website so folks can have a chance to read it. Again, there are points where I would do things differently, but I’m proud of it.

I’ll probably do some musing and discussions about plot, structure and screenwriting and how screenwriting can make you a better novelist. Right now though I’ve got to get down some notes about the plot of my third EDGE book to submit to writers group next week, and push a couple of writers to get me their character sketches for a mosaic novel project that I’m going to try to sell.

Oh, and I’ve got to go ride Pi.

Later.

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