I have officially decided that I need to alternate genres if I am going to survive as a writer. I don’t mean “survive” as in “make it” or “have a career”, I mean “survive” as in “not smash my head in with a hammer”. Seriously, sometimes I think my head is going to explode. I’ll explain.
Now, I always alternate genres. My current spec is a survival horror. The spec before that was a thriller, and the one before that a gritty western. Before that? A noir detective story. Sounds diverse, right?
Well, they are.
But they’re not. See, there’s one thing that binds them all (one thing to rule them… sorry, couldn’t resist). Death. People die in every single script I have written. The only exception is the first spec I ever finished, which was a coming of age drama. In that one, the dad shoots himself OFF CAMERA! See? I only alluded to the brains splatted on the wall! And when the main character tries to kill himself? Well, he fails!
:sigh:
Seriously, if my next script isn’t 100% free of death, dismemberment, and especially splatter effects, I think I’m going to lose my mind. There are only so many ways you can describe carnage like that, and I’ve used damn near all of them.
Well, maybe not 100%. I have 2 more specs I NEED to get written. You know that feeling. That craving. It eats away at your guts. One of them is the feature length script based on Hostile Delivery, a short I finished not too long ago. The other is a thriller about a missing girl. There’s no killing and no shooting in the thriller, until the end. There’s one death. I can live with that.
I’m not done with splatter or violence for good. Not by a long shot. I couldn’t live without it. I just need a break. I need to show my chops outside of action and horror. I need a month without blood.
Fuck it. I’m gonna go write a family film.
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