Ever watched something on TV, or in the theater and stared horrified at the crap on screen and said to yourself, "My God, man! Who the hell gave this garbage the green light?" Well, I've often blurted that out aloud more times than I can count, and mainly directed at the SyFy Channel, lol.

When I first started writing seriously, once it passed the point of just being a hobby, I wrote screenplays, but then, I was quickly pulled away by the intimacy of novel writing. Recently, I've gotten the bug to write screenplays again, especially to convert some of my short stories into screenplays.

So why not do both?

Along with my novel, Vengeance in Bloom, I'll be working on the script for a Science Fiction piece. It's kind of loose right now, still working on the entire story concept, sub plots and all, but like any story the charm and individuality will come out in the details. I've come up with at least seven characters, a couple bit's of technology, and a ship. The opening action sequence is solid in my head, and three other dramatic scenes are coming together.

I was trying to decide between two free script writing programs to use: good ol' ScriptMaker, which I've used a million times, or Celtx which I've just run into. Celtx has my vote so far, it comes with a slew of features for pre-production work for film, theater, radio, audio visual, and comic books like built in story boarding tools. So right now, ScriptMaker will be my faithful backup program in case something goes wrong with Celtx.

My goal in all of this? To submit my script somewhere  once it's complete. Who knows, maybe someone will watch it on screen one day and wonder how the hell it was given the green light, ha, ha!