Happy July 4th + Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 257

Happy July 4th + Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 257

Happy 4th of July! I hope you’ve had a fantastic day celebrating with family and friends. Freya also wanted to wish you a Happy Independence Day. Unfortunately, she is now feeling much less celebratory. She is not a fan of the sky boom booms. She didn’t...
Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 256

Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 256

Oops, I missed a Tweet Tales post again last week. I was frantically writing my newest short screenplay to apply for the SC film grant again. But I got it finished and revised multiple times and then submitted on Sunday morning, a record 36 hours before it was due....
Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 255

Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 255

This week I’ve been writing a short screenplay to apply for the SC Film Indie Grant. This is the same grant program I won to make my short films Saying Goodbye and High Heels & Hoodoo. It’s such an amazing program, and I can’t believe how lucky...
Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 254

Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 254

I've had a lot of stuff going on the past few weeks, so I got behind on tweet tales again. I've been working on several grants I'm applying for, I spent a week dog-sitting my nieces and nephew (who think beds are for dogs not humans), and I've been...
Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 253

Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 253

On Saturday I went to a screenwriting workshop given by Peter Fox. It was pretty basic, but it’s always important to be reminded that when I’m writing a screenplay, I need to 'write in pictures' not words. Since I go back and forth between novels...
Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 252

Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 252

I spent a few days last week with my sister celebrating her birthday. The whole family gathered, which meant all five big dogs together, so it was a bit crowded. There was one doggie kerfuffle, but fortunately we were able to break it up quickly. After a year of...
Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 251

Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 251

Uh oh, it’s been another long chunk of time since my last blog post. It’s been a pretty crazy month and a half, but I’m going to catch up.   I mentioned in my previous post that I made it to the final round of a grant, and the final application...
Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 250

Tweet Tales Tuesday Week 250

For most of the past three weeks I have been out of town, with intermittent internet access for a chunk of that time, so I’ve skipped a few posts. That means today’s post is going to be a whopper since of course I have to chat about all the cool things...