DONE!

I am officially DONE with this bad ass mofo... 4 months, 3 drafts, 2 endings, and one awesome freaking screenplay. I could not be more happy with the way the story crafted itself inside my head. This has always been something I wanted to do one day and I finally did it. As of now I have submitted it to one competition so far and am trolling the web for more. Hopefully I can at least get an honorable mention in one of them so I can send out an accolade with my query letters. Here's the final synopsis... if you want to read the finished product, hit me up...

Synopsis

Tissue(s) is a dark tale about what the desperate are willing to do, in order to get what they need. Utilizing the most basic of human emotions, the story revolves around JAKE McADAMS (22) and his experiences at the Eternal Serenity Mortuary.

Fresh out of college, Jake is having a rough time. His girlfriend April (22) shouts out another guys name in bed, he gets a DUI, his father, STANLEY (50’s), is a drunk who cancelled his apartment lease and he can not find a job.

Out of desperation, Jake accepts a position as an Assistant at the Eternal Serenity Mortuary. Jake is familiar with this particular Mortuary, his mother was buried there a year prior. He starts as a working gravedigger, breaking his back alongside JOHN BROWN (50’s), who has been at the Mortuary since the beginning. Jake only does manual labor for a short period, he is promoted by Dr. LUCAS HARRINGTON (owner, 70’s) to be LIZ’s (30) personal assistant. Liz quickly introduces Jake into the lucrative world of tissue harvesting. She explains that it is perfectly legal under California’s Presumed Consent law that if an autopsy is ordered, she can take whatever she needs.

After Jake starts to get his hands dirty, strange things begin to happen. He is having vivid dreams of a gravestone statue peering over him as he sleeps. Soon after, Liz forces Jake to travel to a local hospital for some on-site gathering. After an exciting chain of events the two end up shooting and kidnapping a Detective and a hospital employee for a “live” harvesting, but things do not go according to plan.

Trust begins to break down between Liz and Jake. Stanley is found dead from an apparent suicide and April goes missing just days later. After Stanley’s funeral at Eternal Serenity, all the cards are revealed as Jake confronts Liz in a showdown that will test him mentally and physically.

Editing

Ugh I am not a fan of this process whatsoever... I am about 50 pages in and I feel like I am ripping my self a new one with every page that I write. I guess it is all apart of the process but I am ready to submit this one  to all the horror competitions and start a new one...

The Day of Redemption is At HAND...

The beast that was is now done... or at least the first draft is until I read it 20 times over to make sure it doesnt suck.... If you are my friend email me at cdrzewie@yahoo.com and I will email you what I got so far... honest opinions are certainly warranted and much appreciated.

Crossed the 100 page mark!

Getting shit done and it feels pretty good. This time next week the first draft will be finished, and onto editing. I can't wait to share it with you guys... its epic

Sooo...

So I am currently about 70 pages deep in the script. I keep thinking about the story and how I want to fix the beginning before I finish but that also sounds like a bad idea. If I want to have it done in time for the annual Eerie Horror Screenplay contest it needs to be done soon. Having until wednesday off with no schoolwork may just be the perfect opportunity to push through and finish this bad boy up...

Starting to get good...

I have officially entered the parts of the screenplay that are starting to get into the story, the awesome, gory, action picking up parts of my epic tale. Downside... I just got a script reading internship this week and have to read two scripts per week and provide extensive reports.... Yes this will affect my writing time, but I think it will also improve my ability to write  a solid screenplay.

Wanted to give you guys a taste of what I am actually writing as well, Its about a college grad who cant get a job until he finds one at the mortuary his mother is buried at. Until the script is done and copy-written I dont want to say much more, but I will drop hints along the way. Thanks for reading my blog, more to come...

Funerals...

We have all been to at least one, they are trying and times of high flying emotions. But what if you worked at a funeral home and no one showed up for someone's final moments before being put into the ground. Would that make you angry, sad, emotional in any way? I am trying to create this imagery in my head but something just isn't clicking yet...