Buried Treasure

And some weekly accountability

Thanks to everybody who joined the August Accountability gathering on Zoom today. It was great to hear your bold vision and grand plans!

If you weren’t able to be there today, see if you can make the next meeting when September rolls around. It’ll be here before you know it.

For now, let me know what you got done this week. Post your work! That’s how this works. We all show up, we make ourselves accountable, and we get things done.

As for me, I’m finally emerging from family responsibilities and getting back into some creative work. I revisited my outline for my satirical novel, Time Travel Agent. No major progress there. I hope to post a new outline next week. I worked every day on memorizing my TedX talk, which records August 12.

My big project of the week was Action Cop, a zany cop-movie parody. It started as a screenplay, and now my writing partner, Keith Webster, and I are adapting it to an 8-episode podcast and series of books. The screenplay is a bad first draft, and our assignment this week was to come up with 10 ideas for the antagonist storyline, because we decided the one in the draft doesn’t work.

The full screenplay doesn’t fit in one email (see “continued” note at the bottom), and my 10 antagonist ideas are below, along with…

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TODAY’s TIP, which is about how to assess the quality of your own ideas. (Get it for about 25 cents with a paid subscription):