Thursday 7 April 2011

Sherman & Lloyd Investigations

It's Day Seven of Script Frenzy, and to no one's great surprise, I'm behind on my page-count. I'm starting to wonder if this might not be just how I roll. I know where I want my story to go and what I want it to do and I feel very good about it. Maybe this is just my week one enthusiasm talking, but I'm still basking in the quiet, hopeful confidence of one who likes what she's writing. Compared with last years' opening pages, these have been easy enough to write and flow well enough.

I don't often feel that my first drafts are even decent, but this one has got good stuff going for it - namely three great main characters, several cool sidekicks, and some exciting (if mildly unrealistic) conflict. It's now tentatively titled Sherman & Lloyd Investigations, after the detective agency the main characters set up in the pilot. I don't love it as a title, but it'll do for now. I figure I should have a tagline, so here's my first draft for one. Judge it by first draft standards, pretty, please:

Acerbic linguistic professor Sadie, computer genius Stuart and PI's cynical secretary Charlie team up to fight crime.

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