An ape swatting at a gnat

Had to finish up some heavy wordsmith work, took all week but it was slightly important, so the blog had to wait, and, after this post, it will have to wait another week, as I continue to finish up a current project.

When I resume daily posts, in about a week, it will be time to bring you all into the "Hollywood wants you, but we don't want you" fold. It will be difficult, occasionally, to go into detail without being 'accurate', but I will endeavor to give you the inside scoop on a longterm project that I am currently working on, and which The Industry has expressed interest. To whet your collective whistle (hopefully, there are a few of you who don't give a shit about anything that has to do with Hollywood, but you'll dutifully read the posts because they show the folly of magic manufactured by lots of people with lots of money and very, very little taste), I shall herewith describe the project: I have the book rights for a story, and as I've been working on it, a call has come in from a Big Ape Hollywood agency, and I would love to call them the Big Ape Agency, but which I think they are better called the Earnest Attempt Agency. They also have an interest in this story, but they are somewhat in line behind me.

Somewhat? Ain't you either in a place or not?

Well, depends on if you believe you can manufacture reality. Hey! That's what The Industry does! So, yes indeed, the Earnest Attempt agency seems to be starting the manufacturing process with me, the principals of the story and, amazingly, my agent/manager. It's interesting (to me) already, and I'll do my best to share this journey with you as the reality of real-reality butts cosmic heads with the reality-manufacturing machinations of The Industry.

I know the above is just a wee bit nebulous and vague, but the balance I need to achieve is between sharing as much as I can with y'all, without screwing up the ongoing negotiations, since I am a little fish in the goopy sea of The Industry. It's early in the, um, "discussions", which is a misnomer, really, because I haven't actually discussed anything with Earnest Attempt Agency, and, while my agent/manager is talking to the agency, he seems increasingly aware that an opportunity also exists for him to become a player with decent legitimacy amongst all the other rising players. Seems like it's going to be a ride that will be described, from time to time, with various positive and negative modifiers.

The whole process is not starting out well, since the agency is interested in the project, regardless of my ownership of the rights. They're huge, I'm tiny, but the principals of the story love me. We'll see what happens...

I'm going to go ahead and post a couple of "Where does this take you?" picts, and I'll give you a bunch of new words in a week-ish. I'll be looking in on a daily basis, and if anything happens that's truly important, I pop in a new line between pages of this other thing that's got me occupied.

Peace: someday that word will be used in terms of something for which we used to strive; the question now is, will it be because of its worldwide prevalence, or because we will have given up on ever achieving it?