Ellen — Good! I look forward to you joining. I’ve watched these exercises open up people’s mind in an interesting way. It helps people to throw out ideas to the world and let them go, which is enormously hard for writers to do. It’s fun for me too.

I’m looking forward to these posts. This is a lot of fun. I actually had all these pictures played out in my head. And then, of course I have to translate it all into words, which is harder. And what you said at the end is very good, also. We must constantly evolve or die. Yeah. We can not stay in one place but move in the stream. I fight it, but I know it’s true.

Ellen — Laughing. Good one. Lesbian Western tear-jerker? Great new twist on an old overplayed story.

Title: Hatchet

Word: Dawn

Charlie wakes on a hay covered barn floor, he wipes his face and finds dried blood under his finger nails.

Pitch: I have none…

Title: Broken Down

Synopsis: She left him standing in the barn.

It’s all about a girl and a boy and the relationship they had. They were farmers. They used to be happy until…It came undone, and the final scene she leaves him in a barn for…for another woman who comes to town.

Pitch: A colorful twist on an old pioneer story. The law rides into town in the form of Herchie McGlinn, a woman sheriff (can this even be?! What the hell, it’s my story) She falls for Dora Pridden and the townsfolk run them out of town.

I see a lot of chickens and a few pigs. I like this post! Good stuff.

Title: What You Make It

Word: Inheritance

Scene Description: A dilapidated red barn sits under a beautiful blue sky. All that can be heard is the wind and a squeaking hinge. Isabella starts to cry and laugh hysterically.

Movie Pitch: A financially struggling brother and sister art team from the Bronx, New York inherit a beautiful remote piece of land in the Southwest that has no resale value. The only structure is a collapsed barn. As life on the East Coast was getting them down, they decide to stay and make the best of it. Luring other starving artists like themselves, eventually a good sized art community blossoms and builds around the fortified dilapidated barn. Growing their own food, using solar power and well-water, and surrounded by their artistic creations, it is heaven on earth… until…