February Update: Yes, I'm Still Here, and I'm Starting a New Screenplay

Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s been a while since I last posted, but since I have been focusing on A Certain Point of View, Too – you know, the blog on WordPress that I had to create in late March of last year because this one is blocked on Facebook – it can’t be helped. It’s hard coming up with good posts for one blog – at least, it is for me; so coming up with good material for two is doubly so. I tried coming up with a workable scheme – at one point, I thought about writing on one blog on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and writing on the other on the other four days, but I’m just not that organized.  

Anyway, yesterday I started working on a new screenplay for my friend Juan Carlos Hernandez’s small indie film company, Popcorn Sky Productions. I have not come up with a title yet, so I’m calling it Project X until (a) I break the story and (b) somebody at either end of the pipeline (Tampa or New York City) comes up with one. I have no idea how long its gonna be, but I do know that it is going to be a more dramatic sequel to Ronnie and the Pursuit of the Elusive Bliss. (At least, that’s the plan. I might change my mind once I get to the “breaking of the story” part, since all I have in my head are ideas for three scenes and a vague idea about what the story is going to be about.

Here is how I plan to open the film, though:

This is what I have in mind for the pre-main titles sequence for the next film: 

FADE IN:

We see a series of CARDS (black with light-colored text) as OMINOUS or MOURNFUL MUSIC plays in the background) 

INSERT CARD #1:

IN AN UPSET VICTORY OVER HILLARY CLINTON, DONALD J. TRUMP IS ELECTED TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES DESPITE LOSING THE POPULAR VOTE BY 2.8 MILLION VOTES.

INSERT CARD #2: ON JANUARY 20, 2017, DONALD TRUMP IS SWORN IN AS THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.  THE NEXT DAY, HE REGISTERS WITH THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

INSERT CARD # 3: IN THE SPRING OF 2020, AS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC WREAKS HAVOC THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, TRUMP BEGINS HIS MONTHS-LONG CAMPAIGN AGAINST VOTING BY MAIL, CLAIMING IT WILL RESULT IN MASSIVE ELECTORAL FRAUD.

INSERT CARD #4: IN JULY 2020, TRUMP REFUSES TO SAY HE WILL ACCEPT DEFEAT IF THE ELECTION RESULTS IN A VICTORY FOR HIS DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT, JOE BIDEN.

INSERT CARD #5: ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2020, TRUMP SAYS, "WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS...GET RID OF THE BALLOTS AND YOU'LL HAVE A VERY PEACEFUL - THERE WON'T BE A TRANSFER, FRANKLY. THERE WILL BE A CONTINUATION."

INSERT CARD #6: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2020.  ELECTION DAY IN THE UNITED STATES.

CUT TO:

EXT. NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS

We see the skyline of the great metropolis silhouetted against the night sky, with their lights ablaze like the stars of a galaxy.

And that’s all I have as of this morning. I’ll write more this afternoon.