Restart with Proper Outlines

My friend finally got back to me about my comedy pilot. He unfortunately confirmed my fears, that it needs some major rewrites and structural changes. But he suggested that I turn it into a mockumentary feature film, which I had not thought to do. Gonna brainstorm that. Maybe instead of jumping straight into writing, I need to start with index cards on a corkboard to plan things out.

In other news, the indie show I am in decided to go forward without the original studio, which means without the director/screenwriter. Today, that director/screenwriter reached out to me to check if I was still interested in working on other projects. I told him that I am. Problem is, do I need to ask what happened? My assumption is that internal issues were related to creative differences, experience levels, general production disagreements, etc. Oh, and he wanted to launch his own indie streaming thing, whereas she had hopes to get us all on major streaming networks I think, so that could have factored into it.

Hopefully he did not get Weinstein'd or something. It had me thinking, "Well, where's my limit?" All the major studios are evil, but I would leap at the opportunity to work for them. And unlike the studios, I know that this guy is a creative. I just told my mom about it, and she was like, "Oh yeah, you should totally work with him." And also, I would go on Fallon in a heartbeat even though he is being sued for very bad and credible things.

Now I am working on outlining that mockumentary, finally getting back to cadaver dissection standup set again, readying myself to revisit the animated superhero concepts, and I think I need to start over that sci fi horror, because it really does not have a strong first act.  Finally trying to outline it and am admittedly relieved at this level of organization. Hated outlining in academics because I always preferred to jump into the writing, and most assignments had a natural progression, but this is big and complex enough that I confess the need for it.