Laurie Hutzler Script Consultation

I just came off a consult with Laurie Hutzler on my Stars and Stripes script.

It was already good, but with the changes (so small yet so poignant) I have in mind, it'll be much, much better. There was an issue of making the protagonist more layered, which she helped me work out as we talked. Awesome process.

I'll look forward to sharpening the script, probably next winter since I have some fiction and film stories in the hopper to work on first.

The burdens a writer bears... :-)

I hope this script and my Chinese Joan of Arc tale will still do well in this year's contests, though. I'll see.

Laurie Hutzler Script Consultation/Possible 1st Film Break?

Today I had a phone consult with Laurie Hutzler, the sixth I've had in about 3 years, the first I've had since starting this blog.

It was top notch as usual.

Laurie went over my Chinese Joan of Arc epic "Heaven's Mandate" and my rom com "Twice In A Lifetime."

I'll be restructuring both fairly heavily and taking them up another notch. I expect to get back to those next year, though, since I'm currently working on fiction and have other scripts to work on after that.

Laurie also mentioned that she knows someone who is starting up a production company in China and would be a likely person to send the rewrite of "Heaven's Mandate" to--provided it's up to par. She also knows someone who could help me translate the script to Chinese. :-)

When this script is ready, hopefully "Crouching Tiger" director Ang Lee will get attached and "Crouching Tiger" heroine Zhang Ziyi will be signed to played the heroine. :-)

I'll also look forward to sending my rom com out when it's ready.

I get the feeling something good started today.

Thanks Laurie!