FWIW, I just finished writing the first draft of a screenplay titled NO GOOD DEED. I read it through this morning. It needs some work, of course. But the bones seem solid, and I was more pleased with the screenplay than I usually am with the first drafts of the stuff I write.
The script is noirish with comic overtones, a la the work of Elmore Leonard, Quentin Tarantino (back when he made movies) and the Coen brothers (sometimes).
My plan is to finish the second draft before our family vacation(s) start in the middle of August. Shortly after Labor Day, I'll look it over one more time, do some touch-ups, and start looking for an agent to represent it. (My literary agent, Bill Contardi, does not represent screenplays.)
If anybody knows a screenplay agent who likes this kind of material ....
About Me
- Tom Coffey
- Tom Coffey is a writer and editor with an extensive background in journalism. His first novel The Serpent Club was published in 1999 and earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. His second novel Miami Twilight was published in 2001. Tom has been a member of the Mystery Writers of America since 1999. A graduate of the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, Tom has been a reporter and editor for some of America’s leading newspapers. A staff editor at The New York Times since 1997, he has also worked for New York Newsday, The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and The Miami Herald. Tom lives in Lower Manhattan with his wife and daughter.
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