By next summer, once this pandemic is hopefully over with, I may begin the turn towards literary work once more. Everything is simpler with a book because I tend to focus on one project at a time.
I have eight projects in the works currently, so you can be sure I'm still in screenwriting mode. Thankfully, I have done extensive work already on six of those projects. One of the other two is a new TV series I have in mind. The other is a novel series that has been sitting in the back of my mind for the past fifteen years patiently waiting its turn.
The jury is still out on that passion project because it will be a massive endeavor that will take up the better part of two years just to get it to a publisher. I may have a decision to make with that project because setting out on that adventure means turning my back on screenwriting to some extent, something I am reluctant to do again.
I may have to decide to postpone that ambitious novel series, or I could use the momentum and confidence I have gained the past few years writing TV series and go ahead and write that novel series as a TV mini-series instead.
Here is where I run into a major predicament with writing a TV Series over a novel series.
The Budget.
There is no budget in a novel series. Besides, I would be devastated to have to toss this story onto my pile of forgotten screenplays.
Whether I can get producers or publishers to drink my brand of crazy or not these projects are all getting written sooner or later. Be that as a screenplay or a novel.
