As I thought, brainstorming with my director friend on his monster movie sequel has been a good creative outlet for me. I am intensely amused by it all. I'm working on a horror movie. Say what? For the record, I'm personally aiming more for "Alien" than "Freddy". And the director also wants that quality of story.

I enjoy helping a friend, but it's also becoming a good project. The power of e-mail has allowed us to exchange a tremendous number of ideas over the past week or so, and we know each other well enough personally to avoid any potential misunderstandings that might otherwise happen when you lose the nonverbal communication aspect of communication.

All this is well and good, but what's in it for me? Well, there's the obvious relationship building aspect, but also the possibility of a legit contract, with compensation (pending financing, natch). How pie-in-the-sky is that? Who knows. Things in my favor; the director's contacts, the first movie sold to Fox and SciFi, we're putting together a good story, and horror ALWAYS has a market. I never would have started a horror spec script on my own, so I'm walking down a road I would have otherwise avoided.

However, that egg's still under the chicken. I'm also working on the Supernatural spec with Jennise, which we want to finish in time for the Warner Bros. workshop deadline on August 1. In the ongoing-but-not-really-noteworthy category, I'm also going through info from Creative Screenwriting magazine, in conjunction with the Hollywood Creative Directory, to send out queries for my movies and Spacetime series. I'm also using the HCD to research and then query managers to try and find new representation.