Do you ever think about one of the novels you have written coming alive on the silver screen with Hollywood elites like Pauly Shore and Lindsay Lohan as the stars and Roseanne Barr in a cameo role as a dumpster fire? What’s that? You haven’t written your novel yet. Well, why the hell not? Write it now. I can vouch for Chicagoland being covered in a thick blanket of snow that won’t be gone until July. There’s nothing else to do but stay inside and write. If you don’t have a novel, maybe you have a novella, short story, or random shapes and pseudo-gibberish scribbled on a napkin. Hollywood is out of ideas these days. As soon as the shooting stops on a film, a remake begins immediately. Your writing is needed.

Well, here’s a screenwriting challenge you may wish to consider.

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