Wendago

Well, I wrote about 100 pages on my little Ghost Writing gig. the original writer seemed very happy with it. Happy enough to pay me an additional ten grand.
Now that I’m done I’ll dive into “Riddle”. I have Hensleigh’s notes through the end of the first act.
Dean Lorey and I have been playing “Return to Castle Wolfenstein” and holy cow is it amazing. The deathmatch is team based and you can play one of four different characters with different abilities. And on top of that the single player game is just plain killing fun.

I finished the outline on my Ghost Writing project. It’s a comedy. Pretty good too. Very funny. The deal was five grand for the outline. The oringal writer has another project due before Christmas as well so I offered to write the first scene. I got nothing better to do. May work on that now. Should be a funny scene.

Looks like Jason’s getting an April 2002 release. Good news. There were rumors that it might go straight to video. I didn’t want to believe those rumors but you get insecure after it’s been sitting on a shelf for a year. I despise that it’s not the movie I wanted it to be but what can you do? If it has a strong opening then I’ll certainly change my mood. Hopfully I’ll get some work out of it.

Riesner called to see if he was invited to Christmas.
He’s been coming over for Christmas morning for several years now. I go pick him up bright and early Chrismas morning and bring him to the apartment. Mel cooks a big country breakfast and then we sit around the tree and open gifts. Dean likes his gifts but it’s the stuffed stockings that get him stoked. The first time we did it he cried like an infant for an hour. He hadn’t had that sort of Christmas since he was a kid.

Anyway I told him, of course, he’s invited. But the truth is, we haven’t seen him since our little falling out. I’ve spoken with him a couple of times on the phone but Mel won’t go over there anymore. He’s called for her a few times but she won’t take the calls. I feel sorry for the old guy but he should have known better. Melanie looked up to Dean like a father.
Sean, Noel, Jess, Susan…one of them said it. I’ll find out which one.
Now I Guess I’ll go tell Mel that I just invited Dean over for Christmas.

Well, I have my first Ghost Writing assignment. I guess everybody does it out here but nobody really talks about it. Basically it is when a successful writer hires an unsuccessful and/or struggling writer to write an outline or first draft or whatever. The successful writer will most likely always go through and make their own pass but it’s a win-win situation for both writers. The studios may argue that point. But I was out of cash and now I’ve got a little in the bank.