  PERFECT PITCH I was beginning to give up on finishing my entry into the Perfect Pitch contest. Things kept happening that seemed to point toward just letting it go or losing my sanity. However, I just decided to let it go with the intention that if it was meant to be, I would receive a sign. I then focused on the problems at hand. Friday night, I went with Jeff to visit a thrift store and a used book store. He finds great books at great prices for his book store at thrift stores. In fact, I found two James Bond collections there. He also likes to visit used book stores to see what works and doesn't works to give him ideas for his own store.
So we visit this used book store in Decatur and we're walking down the aisle and I see a copy of Writing Treatments That Sell by Kenneth Atchity and Chi-li Wong. It was standing upright on a shelf by its lonesome with the front cover facing outward toward the aisle. There was a light from above shining directly down on it and I think I might have heard a chorus of angels. This was a book that I had read about in several places on the Internet as I was doing my research on writing treatments.
I got the message so I picked it up and bought it. Then I worried about the time it would take to read the book, but in fact, the portions I needed to read were in three chapters that I was able to read in one afternoon. It helped me focus my story and gave me a few tools that helped me create a more exciting hook at the beginning and I have a much clearer idea of how to go back revise the treatment and get cracking on the first ten pages of the script.
They are due by Friday at 5:00pm. If selected, I'll need to submit a completed screenplay by May 15th. As crazy as it sounds, I think I can make it happen. It feels so good not to feel weighted down by that funk anymore. 
