Memories of Screenplays
For the most part, when I lok back on all the silly stuff I’ve written, it makes me quite happy. I’ve got more than a few boxes of journals and dusty manuscripts that are delightfully ridiculous, magnificent failures, as I like to call them.
However, there is a long stretch of time that I’m not too fond of. From 1989 until 1999 I wrote screenplays non-stop. Some of them were awful. Some of them were pretty good. None of them sold.
Now, when I think of all those hours I spent writing those unproduced scripts I think: “Why didn’t I spend that time writing plays or children’s books???”
Fortunately, by the time I finished up college, I realized the joys of fiction and writing for the stage. By 2000, although I would occasionally dabble in scripts, I transitioned to other mediums, and have been much happier (and much more successful) ever since.
Of course, those scripts are still hanging aroound. I’ve even posted some of them on my website.
