It was a little bit of everything this last week. At least I
made a little progress here and there.
Amazon Studios
Back in 2010, I submitted my script The
Doorman’s Sacrifice to Amazon Studios. It didn’t get much interest or
feedback. I lost interest in the whole thing. This week I got a note that
they’d changed their rules. Initially you had to agree that you gave them an
option on the script that lasted for a year and a half. If they wanted to, they
could extend the option, but they would pay you for that.
The rule change was to reduce the initial year and a half
option to 45 days. They also now allow you to delete the script after the
option expires. I decided to delete my script. While they had an option on the
script, I couldn’t really do anything else with it. Now I can. Not sure what. I
can’t have all my projects on the front burner.
Bright Freedom
I only worked on Bright
Freedom for a couple days this week. I still kept it to about one hour
each day, so it was a tad over 2 hours I wrote. That got me about 1,800 words.
That brings me close to 4,800. Altogether, I think I am almost a fifth of the
way through.
I am not too happy with my writing though. It seems like I
use the same phrases over and over. It will need a fair bit of rewriting to fix
that. I need to talk to some people to see if the basics of the plot are
realistic. I suppose I should clean it up as much as I can before I have other
people read it. On the other hand, if the plot makes no sense, then that effort
would be wasted.
Orville Sharkbiter
I’ve been trying out some Google AdWords to promote my Orville
Sharkbiter story. I got some free ad credits a while ago and thought
I’d experiment a bit. I did a fair bit of analysis of the statistics AdWords
produces. I don’t seem to have much difficulty getting people to click the ad,
but if the campaign is to work, I need them to share the page. That hasn’t
happened. Yet.
I read a book a short time ago called Made
to Stick about how to create viral messages. I used some of the ideas
to develop some Ads, but I’m afraid to use them. Some people might find them
misleading, and get angry with me. It is not just a mater of attracting people,
but it has to be the right kind of people.
This post is a mirror from my main blog http://www.dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/blog
No comments:
Post a Comment