I'VE STILL GOT IT . . . IT JUST HURTS!

My blog today is going to be short because I'm spending the next few days typing . . . typing . . . typing . . . I'm excited to share some of my earlier work with you, but unfortunately that earlier work was done on a word processor . . . pre-computer, don't ya' know.  And, YES, before the wisecracks start pouring in, computers were in existence when I started my manuscripts; I'm not THAT old . . . yet.  So I had a choice: scan stacks of pages or retype them.  My typing is still around 80 to 90 wpm, depending upon the amount of coffee I've ingested, and my scanner runs 3 minutes a page . . . kind of works out in the wash.  Getting my 'power typing' back in practice is a plus, but some rather creepy aches and pains are cropping up in the process.  I didn't know veins on the back of my hands could look like that. Actually that's not entirely true--those of you who know me well, know I'm a trained classical pianist, one who only sits down every six months or so and cranks through a practice session of all the music I can still perform.  My hands look rather alien when I finish, but hey, they're limber for days after that! 

So, getting back to this typing; I wanted to post one of several teleplays I wrote and submitted for the television show "Beauty And The Beast", one screenplay entitled Fugitive Child, and a piece I wrote for practice, not for publication, revamping the ending of "Phantom Of The Opera" into something I liked better.  Now comes the challenge.  The screenplay and teleplay follow a very specific manuscript format; one I'm having a really interesting time trying to incorporate on the page 'PLENTY OF WRITING' without the format changing so drastically it looks like a first-grader typed it.  Uggh.  I'm working on this hurdle, as well as typing . . . typing . . . typing . . .  Will keep you posted!