Screenwriting : In keeping with the season, Merry Christmas to my Screenwriting pals! by Phillip E. Hardy, Prolifique

Must be in the air. Knocked out a Christmas short first draft today based upon a shower thought yesterday. If I like it when done, I'm buying myself an extra present for Magi's Day, which is the day after Screenwriter's day! And next week back to editing my version of Miss Sloane. Here's to the pixel elves forming plot points for us all.

Philip: Good luck and Happy Holidays my talented friend. I wish you great success in 2017.

And back at ya, P. Feels like there's tread on the road out there, doesn't it?

Thank you, Philip E. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a new year's filled with good light and creative juices. I'm fighting a head cold and asthma, but almost done with script #9. Time for a long break for rewrites. Peace brother.

Philip: I'm feeling optimistic.

You best believe that I'll still be writing. My main goal for 2017 and beyond still, is to not only write and edit each of the three screenplays I'd planned for a Film Trilogy, but also take my drawing skills to the next level, and draw at a high-quality level.

Jorge: I hope you feel better my friend. Good call on revisiting your body of work. I've been doing a lot of that lately. I'm revisiting first drafts from a few years back. Talk about fresh perspective. Garland: You sound pumped! Good luck with your work in 2017.

Nope. Nada. Nothing. I'm enjoying a break from everything. Lol! Or rather "ho ho ho." ;) Happy Holidays, everyone!

Feliz Navidad from Sierra Nevada. Yep I'm writing as always, even when in places no electricity to plug in computer. Bin yesterday, this next morning has a new blank page on an A4 writing pad, and a pen to draft what is to be. Ha ha....Another "Pumped" thread participant....well it's Christmas. Good Luck with the comedy Phillip. @All. Seasons Greetings or as Shawn Speake says HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Phillip. I will be writing, really want to finish the first draft of the thriller I'm working on before the New Year. I feel like it's bad luck if I start 2017 with unfinished business!

Debbie: Thanks for checking in and Happy holidays to you as well. Jody: Good to hear from you and I hope you're feeling very inspired this week.

knocking out a web series and contemplating a new version of 'it's a wonderful life', lol I know that's a big task but I've had this concept running around my head for a few years :)

Happy Holidays, here's to a great New Year in 2017

I started work on a horror short and am researching a subject for a drama. The latter will be my first serious screenplay, as most of my previous specs have been comedies.

Tony: good luck and I look forward to seeing what you come up with next year.

Merry Christmas, bro. That's what's up! ... I'm birthin' another one. BIG BOSS FILMS' 2017 feature: MAD MOUNTAIN... Surburbanite campers cross paths with a gang and a weekend getaway turns into a fight for survival... on MAD MOUNTAIN.

Working on a buddy cop spec-- sorta like "New Jack City" meets "Ip Man" set in NYC. Almost done with my 20++ page rewrite treatment. Originally set in LA, Im going write 2 asian lead characters, create a "niche" brand, backdoor a way to action genre writing assignments. I dug out my "Hero with a thousand faces" book, save the cat beat sheet, listen to Jay Z songs for linguistics, watch John Ford & Kurosawa movies for inspiration-- "steal" from the best and make it mine.

That's what's up, MaxXx!

Shawn: Sounds very cool. Dan M: I look forward to reading it.

...and MaxXx, if you'd like a brother to look at your next draft, I got you! I enjoyed the last version. Excited to see what you've done.

Thanks Sexy MFer Shawn! Let us know when your episode of Prison Break airs!

My man! It's a LIFETIME movie airing soon... http://deadline.com/2016/11/joyce-mitchell-prison-break-manhunt-lifetime... ... I also got a call for GET SHORTY the series. Going back to New Mexico to play a henchman in Jan... http://deadline.com/2016/08/get-shorty-chris-odowd-ray-romano-star-epix-...

@Phillip: Thanks. I'm almost finished reading the horror screenplays you wrote. Sorry. It has taken an embarrassing long time. Your adaptation of The Music of Eric Zahn was on point. Good work.

Shawn: great work!

Merry Christmas continues here ~ best wishes to you Phillip, and everyone!

Going to be finishing up writing my holiday themed movie "The Christmas Pageant".

Merry Christmas one and all!

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas....here's to a prosperous New Year for all of us.

Fiona: May I ask which contest?

Check Twitter #RuinAHolidayFilm for a bunch of humorous ideas, free. My favoritie titles are "Bipolar Express," "It's a Wonderful Life without You in It" and "Home Loan." :-)

@Jessica: I'd watch each of those movies. It's A Wonderful Life...Without You In It sound particularly fun.

"It's a Wonderful Life without You in It" sounds like it could be a modern remake of Much Ado About Nothing, doesn't it? Here is additional inspiration for "Bipolar Express." (Get Eddy Izzard for the train conductor)

I was thinking an anti-romantic comedy/holiday movie in the vein of Bad Words or The Ice Harvest, but then again I was never smitten with British work. Must be the anti-colonial in me--my ancestors took part in a failed rebellion in Ireland before sneaking into the U.S.

@Tony: "Much Ado" is not my fave Shakespeare -- that's "Twelfth Night," obviously. However, I love Act I, Scene 1 where Beatrice introduces a main character, Benedick, by attacking everything about him, before he even has entered the play. Beatrice is a real spitfire, and more believable than, say Katherine in "The Shrew." If I were writing "It's a Wonderful Life without You in It" I would start there and maybe end with Beatrice marrying Benedick, but tear out the middle. No one would believe someone is going to faint and die just because their fiance accused them of cheating on them. That's the stuff of daytime TV now.