The Idea Log

This year I started keeping a journal of daily story prompts/ideas.  I'm about 30 days and its been a pretty good exercise to get my creative juices flowing.  Since I'm re-reading the list every day many of the ideas have been reworked and (hopefully) improved several times over while other ideas have evolved into totally different stories using various pieces from the journal.  

So far I have managed to complete 1 short draft and have outlined several other ideas.  It also gives me an excuse to post to twitter on a daily basis (social activity!) and I might try to post a weekly group on this blog.  To wit:

1. While digging up dinosaur bones a paleontologist finds the bones of a murdered man.
2. A pet cat meows every time a person in the room tells a lie.
3. 
   A shared box of valentines chocolate turns a class of second graders into rabbits.
4. A haunted storefront window becomes a viral sensation.
5. A son rides the rails searching for his hobo father. 
6. A building cleaner finds their life in danger after leaving a silly/harmless note on an employee's desk.
7. A man is obsessed with confronting an awful middle school child.

Lonely; The Package Thief (WIP 1)

As I mentioned in my last post, my first project for 2024 will be a new episode of Lonely, tentatively titled "Tough Talk and the Package Thief".  In this one the Ranger's mask gets him mistakenly identified as his apartment building's package thief.  Mild guffaws ensue.

The script was finalized early January (7 pages) and I then posted a casting call on CastingCallClub.com with 4 speaking roles; An elderly couple, a sexy widow and a man making a funeral speech.  I decided to pay 10$ per role (sunk costs for a project that will generate zero dollars) which pumped up the number of auditions and I got a good range of actors for each role with a total of 93 submissions.  Last weekend I selected the actors and now I expect to receive the lines by the end of February.

I've got a draft of my three sets and all speaking characters complete.  Hoping to have a completion date mid 2024 if I'm lucky.  More news as we go!