As the year closes I'm working on a new spec script for the Warner Bros. workshop, a Supernatural with the working title of "Stairway to Hell." After that, I plan to write at least one short story before I begin work on an orginal teevee script that I'll have done in March.

I just got my copy of Out of the Gutter in the mail, and haven't read anything in it yet, but it looks great.

To show you how backlogged I am right now, I'm going to share with you the title of everything I've got titles for right now that are in some stage of note-taking, outline form or draft. Some of these are no more that a paragraph in a notebook, one is forty-thousand words long. My New Year's resolution is to shrink the list, or at least have some different names on next year's list.

Lucy in the Pit

Cutter's Beach

Hollywood Trash

A Bushwhack at Hog-Scald Holler

The Scapegoat

Fastnight Crip

Poser

Supervillian

The Mother of Bandits

I Hear They Burn For Murder*

The Pickpocket

Midnight Down Pecker's Beach

The Accidental Torturer

Blight

*(Okay, all I have for that one is the title, but that title kicks fucking ass. Keep your mitts off it.)