Stephanie Domet

Category: Homing on screen

  • Weeding and planting

    So. The thing that was going on is that I’m no longer trying to write a screenplay for Homing. I tried for a year, but as the renewal date for the option approached it became increasingly clear to me that the producers and I just didn’t share a vision of the project. They kept asking…

  • Draft eleventy-million

    The differences between writing Homing-the-novel and Homing-the-screenplay are huge and many. Homing the novel was such a solitary endeavour, a feverish fugue of writing, thinking, some rewriting, more thinking, not quite enough rewriting and not quite enough thinking and then it was out and on the shelf and in my hand. Homing the screenplay holy…

  • Fade in: INT. House – Day

    So I think I’m finally figuring this thing out. I wrote a second draft of the treatment for Homing: The Movie… and it didn’t suck! And I wrote two full scenes…and I’m pretty sure they didn’t suck either! So that’s very exciting. In fact, I am beginning to feel real enthusiasm for writing this thing,…

  • Oh, Google, you do have a sense of humour

    I pity the individual who got here–twice–by googling “success writing screenplay treatments.” Ha! (Let me know if you find anything out, hapless googler. I could use the help.)

  • Aaaand… action!

    Oh thank god. This morning, on the way to physio (rotator cuff injury probably from over-zealous drilling during the summer of making decks, compounded by incessant Snood playing, and furious typing of screenplay treatment), I figured I’d better give some serious though to the problems posed by the screenplay. Those in charge feel I haven’t…

  • Getting the treatment treatment

    Soon I will embark on Homing: The Movie Treatment take two. Notes are beginning to come back to me from those who know more than me (hell, you probably know more than me, why don’t you send me some notes, too?) Over the last twenty four hours, I’ve been presented with a number of questions…

  • Fall fever

    You never hear of anyone coming down with that, and I wonder why. Spring fever, absolutely, but no fall fever. I get it every year. Maybe because my birthday is at August’s end and seems each year to usher out the summer, even though officially summer has several weeks left to spend. But the summer…

  • The Homing stretch

    So, there’s writing, which I find not particularly hard. Then there’s rewriting, which I hate and fear, but am trying to learn to embrace (remind me to talk more about that some time). Then there’s taking something you’ve written, rewritten, re-rewritten and had published and…writing it again. That’s a real feat. I’ve been wrestling with…

  • Still thinking about it

    In true vacation form, I was felled by a miserable cold. And then it started raining, and who knows when it will stop? So, it’s been like that. We’ve been a busy couple of vacationers. Kev‘s been working as hard as he can getting his record finalized. Album art, check. Looks great. Got it mastered…

  • Thinking about the big Fade In

    So I’ve been off work for two weeks exactly, and on holiday for a week and a day. And I feel pretty relaxed, I have to say. Today there will be high tea, and then a ukulele jam, so we’re managing to have a range of experiences. And every night I read a few pages…