First draft of Rogue Wave screenplay finished.

I am so busy writing these days that I completely forgot to mention that I finished the first draft of my feature screenplay, "Rogue Wave" 3 weeks ago. As of today I am halfway through a scene by scene hard edit after painfully cutting 9 pages to get it down to the magical "110 pages" basically required for spec scripts these days. Enjoying the process with no belief that it will ever be made into a film, because when I'm finished with it, I will start writing the novel version of the story. One way or another this story will be told. 

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