#5 in progress.  If you want to be a writer, screenwriting is an odd medium to pursue. When you turn in your finished screenplay, no one else sees it as finished, but rather as a loose blueprint. Worse yet, the system calls on you to write your most original and engaging stories, not so that they could be made into movies, but to prove to the movie executive that you can write his “brilliant” idea for the next Fast and the Furious installment.  Rather than play that game, I’ve decided to shelve my latest alien abduction spec and concentrate on my Cheeseheads rewrite.  Cheeseheads has been very good to me.  It has been optioned three times for actual money.  It has gotten me hundreds of meetings.  And oddly enough, it even got me a job to write a serious drama based on the true story of a former federal prosecutor who discovered Nazi war criminals were living in the US on the government’s dime.  But despite all that the script has done for me, it has never done what it was intended to do.  Be a movie. So, that is why I will take the next six weeks to rewrite it.  I will rewrite all of the changes I have made throughout the years to appease some studio exec.  I’m finally in a position where I don’t need Hollywood.  This is my movie and I’m going to write and direct it. Oh, and be forewarned, I’m looking for investors.