I Got Character

by William Speruzzi on 07/31/2009

So I’ve been gone for a while. Get over it and stop your blubbering.

Lately the balance between life and art has been a cross between not getting pulverized by oncoming traffic and screaming into an empty canyon. Yeah, that’s what’s it has been. Life life has been a constant assessment/reassessment of everything I thought I knew and proved to be wrong about. Pushing myself everyday and testing every nerve just to keep my boy happy and healthy. That’s a good thing.

The career, not so much. In order: no word from that producer I told you about. Project is cold and stiff as far as I’m concerned unless someone wants to tell me otherwise. Nicholl, dead. No surprise there. Sundance Lab, they told me to fuck off too. Austin is still up in the air. The funny thing about all of it is, I don’t think I’ve even skipped a beat. Maybe it’s age or just a thicker skin. I read the e-mails and I moved on which is what everyone should do.

All I want to do is watch Mad Men. I just watched the second season and was truly inspired. It goes without saying that it is one of the best shows on now or ever imho. Very rich in theme and character. My cup of coffee. That brought me to a fine little gem of a site after I Googled “Mad Men Scripts.” It’s called Writing The TV Spec Script run by “Colm” from Galway I gather. It gives some great insight into doing just that. I’ve played around with the idea of writing for TV. Chops need to be strong, really strong. Something to think about. It might be worth investigating. There’s a link to seven Mad Men scripts including the pilot available as PDFs for download. Check ‘em out.

So this is what’s on the agenda for this month. Continue working on the second draft of a previous screenplay I started a while ago. Then maybe spec out a Mad Men script. From there? Stay alive long enough to maybe see some of this come to fruition.

Oh yeah, what do you think of the sites new look? I added a Television section of links on the sidebar.

There are 6 comments in this article:

  1. 07/31/2009Matt says:

    I like the white site. I like that yer writing again. I like Mad Men. I just wish it would stop fucking raining! Good to have you back my friend!

  2. 07/31/2009William Speruzzi says:

    Thanks bro. I never left. Just hibernatin’. Time for coffee soon?

    The rain, yeah, it’s killing me too.

  3. 07/31/2009David Anaxagoras says:

    The new theme is looking good. Keep the blog goin, it’s becoming a rare art these days.

  4. 07/31/2009William Speruzzi says:

    Maybe when blogs are in retro mode we’ll be considered, you know, pioneers.

  5. 08/3/2009J. Ott says:

    Like the site. Very clean. Maybe feels too clean for your personality, or maybe that’s just my prejudice from the old blog.

    On a technical note, it took me a while to figure out I had to go to the post permalink to comment.

  6. 08/3/2009William Speruzzi says:

    J. – Thanks for the comments. I hear you on the “too clean” thing. I might play with a different color palette to keep in tune with the tone I’ve always had. I also like the clean look too. We’ll see. As you know, nothing is ever really finished.

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