What a day.

I stayed up until 3 AM working on The Foundry. I managed to add another 17 pages to the current draft. I also figured out a more direct way of presenting the first act. It moved my opening scene to the end of the act, but it reads much better.

Woke up late and had bagels and lox for brunch.

Patrick called shortly after from L.A. He spoke with Michelle Belegrin yesterday and she is very interested in Red 71.

The next step is for Patrick to talk to her agent. That should happen tomorrow.

Patrick also talked to me about more work for Angus Scrimm. He had some great ideas.

We're going to add him as background action to the scene with the sheriff and I'm going to write a new sequence we can run during the end credits.

Both bits will be dark, but funny.

And of course this will put The Foundry on hold again for a few days.

Patrick also mentioned his friend Jim Sherman. Jim is working on his thesis and is using Red 71 as the topic. Jim called after lunch to introduce himself and we scheduled a phone conference for tonight.

Jim was involved in early drafts of both Borderland and Monster. I'm looking forward to talking to him.