Outline ready to go for Broken Down Bus

It's the end of the month and it's been a full year so far.  I completed the research and characters for my broken down bus horror movie and started working on the outline for it.  I typically write an outline for each of my screenplays, I like to know where my story is going, and it keeps me from getting writer's block.  Any writer's block comes from doing the outline, so I don't have to stop and think much one I've started writing.

Animated Jungle Draft Done

The latest draft of my animated jungle screenplay is complete.  It flowed really well I thought, and it had some good story elements, and fun characters.

Re-write

I decided to go back to a few scripts for another draft/re-write.  I need to incorporate the information I learned when I read the Screenwriter's Bible that I mentioned last year.  The one I'm working on now is the Animated Jungle movie that I started at the beginning of last year.

New Short Story is Finished

The first draft of my short story is done!  It was a lot of fun to complete this since I've had the idea for so long.  It was also interesting doing research for the CERN lab since that's where the story takes place.  Stats for this one is 11 pages and 6,334 words.  I'm going to shelve it for a couple of weeks and then do another draft with my fresh eyes.

New Short Story

I decided to write up a short story for an idea I came up with back in October of I think 2011.  Since I'm already in story writing mode, it will be nice to work on something that will be much shorter.  I had a few questions for my wife, since she has written and submitted a lot more short stories than I have, and went to work writing it.

The WWII Novel is DONE!

Or at least the first draft is.  Wow, it's a weird moment to know that I finished my first novel.  A lot of time, research, and sacrifice went into this.  It was such a huge project to write a book that took place in WWII, that I didn't get much of anything else done.  Most of my available free time went into writing this.  Even on most weekends I didn't have time to watch a movie or even relax with a video game.  It's a great feeling of accomplishment, but also bittersweet knowing the majority of the writing is over.

The stats for it are as follows:  185 pages, 107,066 words, 39 chapters + an epilogue.

Now it's time to shelve it for a few weeks (probably until April), so I can approach it again with fresher eyes for the next draft.  I'm in a peculiar position now since I'm not sure what new writing project to start on.  Usually I would have the next project researched and ready to go, but since the novel took so much time, the horror movie about the broken down bus isn't ready yet.