A little more "Jonah"

More stations are picking up the Bible titles, so that's good news. We've shot the commercial break bumpers for two of our shows, and tomorrow we shoot them for "Esther," with Lauren, the young actress who plays Amelia in the shows. Lots of late nights working on the production of those, the production of the commercials that will go in those, the preparation of our shows for broadcast, and the production of the two Sing Along DVDs, with all the marketing and graphics that goes along with it.

Plus our efforts to get into more Christian bookstores continues. We had good news this week that a chain of 25 stores has placed a sizable order.

All that has left little time for writing. But most mornings are starting this way. Leave the house at 6:50 to get the girls to school (school started at a much more civilized time when I was their age), get into the office at 7:35. Park myself in the back conference room overlooking the golf course, put on my writing music (soundtracks, mostly -- current fave is "Lady in the Water"), and dip into the world of Jonah -- at least the Liken version of it -- for about an hour.

It's not the speediest of paces -- right now, I'm on page 20. But at least it is a pace.

So far, I like how it is coming out. I thought it would go a little faster than it is, since I already have an outline. I've spent a week on one page, but I was okay with that, because before I could write it, I had to work out about 15 characters that would appear in that scene. Sometimes in the past, I would insert placeholder-type characters, if I'm more interested in establishing the plot at that point. But this time, I had already done that and was needing to take it to the next level, with actual characters. That's part of the fun for me, anyway, since that's when I can start more fully imagining these characters -- what they look like, how they sound. It may get changed a lot before it gets to the screen, but it's all part of the process.