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At the STXIFF event this weekend having a blast!

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that Nowhere, The Survivors and Other Stories, and The Survivors short story will be available for free this weekend starting Friday September 6th and going until September 10th!

I’ll be at the 2019 South Texas International Film Festival this weekend and wanted to offer a great sale to celebrate.

I’ll be competing in the Pitch competition on Saturday…

I got the “Regrettably” email again this year, but already looking forward to next year.

So for the past two years I’ve entered the Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting competition. This is one of the tops for screenwriting competitions and it’s certainly one of the most reputable and prestigious. Last year I only had Hypersleep Studies to enter, this year I had The Gazers and Hypersleep Studies. for 2020, I’m hoping to have three completed and ‘further improved upon’…

Looking Forward to Attending STXIFF in September

Feels like time is running faster as of late, I figured it would be good to send another update out into the vacuum that is social media. 🙂

Hope all is well in your experiential universe, lots of big things are happening right now for me. I’m getting very excited about attending the South Texas International Film Festival in early September. I have to go pitch my screenplay “The Gazers” to a…

I hope all is well in your universe. I wanted to drop in and share some awesome news. First, The Gazers has it’s first official cover jacket. Hope you like it 🙂

Second, The Gazers won “Best Original Concept Feature Screenplay” in the April 2019 Olympus Film Festival. This was it’s first official win, I’m hoping it just continues to do awesome in all the festivals this year.

Lastly, and perhaps the biggest chuck of news is that The Gazers has been selected to compete in the 2019 STXIFF “The Pitch” Screenplay Competition. This is great news. I will be attending this film festival event in September to Pitch my screenplay in this competition! Looking forward to this for sure.

Anyway, back to writing, currently I’m working on Horntooth’s Farm some more and dabbling a bit in a new story entitled “A Time for Love”. I’ll keep you all up to date on progress as much as I can.

Going to try to kick out my 3rd screenplay in April. I’m planning to use the momentum from the Camp Nanowrimo event to work through a screenplay for my novel Nowhere from 2016.

“The Gazers” is essentially done so I’m going to let it rest for April. Here’s hoping Nowhere comes together quick.

Book this weekend to take advantage of this sale!

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So the screenplay for “The Gazers” is now sitting at 70 pages long with 16658 words and only 3 more scenes left to write!

Today I completed another big ‘hung up’ scene which is a big relief to be done with!

Hoping not to reveal anything major here but the last three scenes have been tough for me to get to the real heart of.  I was sort of examining them and it struck me as ironic that they…

6 More Scenes Before “The Gazers” is Complete

Getting down to the wire on completing the finished draft of my second screenplay. Hoping to wrap this one up in the coming weeks. It’s currently sitting at around 16,000 words and is approaching the 90 page mark. These last few scenes are mapped out, I just have to put them into the script. We’ll see if any new inspiration hits before the draft is complete.

After that, I’ll spend most of March…

Two More Film Fest Contest Updates

Hey Everyone,

I hope all is well in your universe.

I have to snag your eye for a second to let you know that A Brief Word on Hypersleep Studies : Chiliagon has earned spots in two more Film Festivals.

First, it has been named a semi-finalist in the 2019 ME Film Festival. In this competition, it is up for Best Feature Script, which would be totally amazing to win! Here’s hoping that I hear good…

A Slight Change of Name for Hypersleep Vol2

So as time and writing have flowed along, I’ve been sitting at the banks of creativity mulling over the idea of changing the name of Hypersleep Studies Vol2 to something other than Dreamers. Originally, this title was named ‘The Dreamers’ in reference to the two spies code named Poe and Coleridge. However, when I went to create the cover, I realized that ‘The Dreamers’ would not fit, so I…

Volume 2 Is in the Works!

I’m pleased to announce that work has been started on A Brief Word on Hypersleep Studies : Dreamers, which for anyone who has interpreted the binary on my covers can see that this is Vol2 of the A Brief Word on Hypersleep Studies saga.  I’ve drafted the first couple of scenes of this next installment and am in the process of cleaning them up. As soon as I get them in a polished state, I’ll start…

Public Reveal of the Concept Art for A Brief Word on Hypersleep Studies : Chiliagon

Hey Everybody,

I hope all is well in your universe. I just wanted to take a couple of moments today to publicly showcase the amazing concept art that was recently generated for A Brief Word on Hypersleep Studies : Chiliagon. Two amazing artists submitted work on this as part of my winning screenplay submission into the Olympus Film Festival Los Angeles.

I want to give a big thanks to Suzanne Lola…

Hypersleep Studies : Chiliagon Wins Best Original Concept Feature Screenplay in The Olympus Film Festival 2019!

Well folks! Here’s hoping this is the first of a long string of awesomeness for 2019!

A Brief Word on Hypersleep Studies : Chiliagonhas won it’s first category. Boom Ya! I’m so happy about this news. According to the festival there were over 700 entries in the January 2019 competition and the finalists included Oscar and Emmy nominated writers and directors. This is a no joke, big time, real deal…

Lots of Updates on A Brief Word on Hypersleep Studies : Chiliagon

Okay, so I know I’ve been fairly quiet on my blog for a few months almost now. It’s been a whirlwind season for writing though I want you to know. I was going to do a whole slew of updates one blog post at a time, but I really want to keep at the grind stone with my writing, so the updates here may be a bit few and far between and have several update dumps all at once. Prepare yourself…

via Interview with Screenwriter Joshua Ashburn (A Brief Word on Hypersleep Studies: Chiliagon)