It would figure that after getting back to a regular blogging schedule last month, I’d go nearly the entire month this month without posting anything. Given that I need to change to a new content system for the .org now that Blogger is ending FTP support (I’m assuming I’ll have to install WordPress, or rather bribe someone into installing it for me), this is doubly disturbing. My Spring Break started today, though — as usual in Toledo, with several inches of snow on the ground and even more falling as I type this now — and I’m hoping to use my time off here to catch up on things I’ve been neglecting, like cleaning my room, reading, and blogging.

I can’t say too much about the events of this past month, but earlier I went to Columbus for a weekend and finally had a weekend where nearly everything went right. I’d needed a weekend like that in the worst way since Mom’s medical troubles started last September, and I’d been repeatedly denied that chance. Not only did I wind up having one of the longest periods of happiness I can remember having in several years, but I grew tremendously as a person in that one weekend. I can’t say that I sit here now with everything in my life hunky-dory, because it isn’t. In fact, I’ve had a fair bit of upsetting news this month as well, but because I had that one weekend turn out so well for me, I feel much more capable of handling things than I did a month ago.

I also wrote my first screenplay earlier this month. I completed a number of short stories last month, and one of them was one I had the proverbial "good feeling" about. I bought a couple of books on screenwriting to help refresh my memory on formatting and similar issues — I took a screenwriting class in 2003, but I hadn’t attempted the format since then — and wound up churning out a 15,000 word screenplay in eight days. All the screenplay’s events fell pretty much where they’re supposed to in a Hollywood screenplay, and I was surprised at how easily it came to me given that I’m not a film person by any stretch of the imagination. (I haven’t been to the cinema to see a film in eight and a half years.) I hold no illusions about this screenplay becoming a smash hit, or even picking up an agent, but writing it was a tremendous experience for me, and once I’ve let it rest a while, I’m going to go back and edit it and see what I can do about getting an agent to see if it will sell. I’m also going to turn the screenplay into a novel, since I have a good feeling about that as well. This will mean putting off the novel I’d planned to start writing shortly, but I want to strike on this one story while I still feel on a roll with it.

It’s odd for me to come here and say that I’m not depressed about things. I guess that when I feel good for a prolonged period of time, it’s only natural for me to want to enjoy the good time and not spend so much time writing about it. That being said, I should work more on blogging on a more regular basis. I can’t afford to let this place fall into disrepair.