Anything Goes : My Writing Has Evolved by James M. Denton

I began my writing career in 1999 with a friend of mine, over the next several years, we wrote, three screenplays. Our third screenplay , a comedy completed in 2006 was going to be produced at a local playhouse in 2007/08, because the Executive Director at the time read the screenplay and liked it. So we set out on adapting the screenplay in to a stage play. This allowed us to further create the characters and adapt the anything is possible film in to the confines of a three quarter thrust. Many tireless hours of discussion, debate, and rewrites, resulted in a completed project all while we endured the rigors of the real world aka jobs, at one point we were both working two jobs and writing when we could. Unfortunately the management at the playhouse changed hands. As I had before, I continued volunteering there with the new management. I am still a volunteer/employee at the playhouse. We presented our script to the new management in 2008, they gave it due diligence before deciding not to produce it, we were given some ideas on how better craft it. Back to the rewrites. We reworked enough to have a staged reading at the playhouse in 2012, it gave us great insight to be able to see professional actors reading and moving to what we had written. I saw more opportunities for improvement. Now in 2014, I alone reworked it, scrunching both acts in to one and rebuilding an entire second act and plan to resubmit it - both the artistic directors said they would read it again. Here's the point, when I went back to the original 2006 screenplay, I was mortified and that was simply because we had added so much depth to the characters that the original seemed sophomoric at best. I could so rewrite it in to a better film - someday. Now I am focusing on the stage play and fine tuning the four screenplays I have written since then, cultivating ideas for more screenplays and working on a pilot for a 1/2 TV series. I love to write! I won't stop...ever. It would be very cool to share my work with someone who can bring it to the masses, I would love for them to see just how far I have evolved.