It has now been over a month since my latest post. It’s time for an update. Last month I announced my plans to launch out into the world of playwriting. Today, I reveal what I’ve done. Letting it all hang out in plain, naked view, my confession begins…

I have done nothing.

Well, that may be a little harsh. I’ve done next to nothing.

Nothing when it comes to playwriting, that is. I did read as much as I could of Aristotle’s Poetics. I’ve started browsing through several theatrical websites. I even have literature at home to teach me about writing plays and then producing them. But I haven’t put one word down yet.

You see, I’ve got this screenplay that needs revised. It’s a story I love, and it cries out to me to finish it. I thought that it was ready to leave the house and find its own way in the world, but I was wrong. Like Edward Scissorhands, I noticed that it lacked some vital parts that all the other stories in the world have. If it is going to survive, I have to give it arms and legs like every other story.

It is an unfinished project that needs to have something shown for all of the work already put into it. I want to see it find a place in this world. Something aches inside of me when I think that it will stay buried in my files like an abandoned friend. A little dramatic maybe, but that’s the way we writers are, I suppose.

This whole month has been devoted to revising the story of Peter Vitanuova, a young man born to the Vitanuova mafia who falls in love with a rival family he is sent to destroy. My hope is to finish the revisions soon so that I can go on to the next project.

What unfinished business stands in front of you and a fresh page?