The childrens book is on hold for now

Actually it's been a while since I did any work on the childrens book- I want it to be a Bunnicula style book with pictures. What I'm working on instead is a horror movie that i want to write and direct for Lifetime. In the old days, TV showed movies like Dark Night of the Scarecrow- there were real made-for-TV horror movies.

Now there's really no limit to what you can see in horror movies on TV. I always think it's funny when they play a movie like Vacation a lot of stuff, really tame stuff, is still cut out- they're playing the movie the way it was editied for TV back in the mid-80s.

But I don't want violence or gore, just suspense and excitement. I wonder if I'll somehow make the movie and then bring it to Lifetime or if I go to Lifetime with the idea and then make it for them. I'll worry about that later.

"Bunnicula"

I want to write a childrens book so I re-read one of my favorite books from when I was younger. What I liked was the mood that it set. Reading it you got the feeling and the the excitement of being in this house, which is very much like your own, and having all these things happen. I like that it shows pets having a secret life.

And I like the scene where the dog is spending Friday night with one of the sons while he reads and eats chocolate cupcakes. It sets a mood, which I think is the best thing a book or a picture can do. It isn't the entertainment, and it isn't any message, it's just the mood.

Re-reading it I found it was a much simpler story than I'd remembered, very brief. I'd thought it was a little longer.