Mike Clarke

I'm new to the screenwriting world, but have been on a steep learning curve for the past five years, writing science fiction under the names
Mike Clarke and Michael S.Clarke. The reviews have been mixed and the sales dismal, but the edification invaluable. It seems that I can craft an amazing universe, desribe scenes elequently, devise diabolocal plots and future scenarios, but I need to work on the characters and to simplify the stories. I suspect my two scifi novels can be broken down into 4-6 distinct stories, so my work is cut out for me.
I have to re-write these stories into screenplays. In fact, some beta readers told me that my writing is dialog heavy, and read like a screenplay. There you have it.
I'm starting with a screenplay that was jokingly suggested to me by a seriously creative relative, and when I came back with a logline, she loved it. So, that is my WIP.
Far from the very adult and terrifying scifi world of the Chronicles of the Eradicator, this is a young adult Christmas vampire adventure story. So figure, right?
This is so far from my geology degree, computer science programming and systems analyst career as to be laughable, but it keeps me out of trouble here in drizzly Burnaby, BC..