[Charles Jessen]

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[Charles Jessen]

Hi, my name is Charles Jessen.

I was locked out of access to this forum until recently, but was getting the class emails so I have been working on the assignments for a new screenplay “House Pest” while I am refining the first draft of another screenplay, a non-Hallmark Christmas story, that I wrote the past couple months. “House Pest” will be my 9th screenplay. I wrote my first screenplay 30 years ago, read all the books, took all the seminars, yet none of these earlier scripts got made. One script was optioned 3 times, with substantial interest from name actors, but still never got made. I’m am now semi-retired and able to devout more time to the craft. Just got over a form of writer’s block that kept me from finishing scripts the past 8 years. (fear of them not selling) … Now wading through my file of 60+ screenplay and TV pilot ideas and outlines that I’ve developed over the years to determine which ones to bring to the front burner and actually write. Hoping to increase my speed of production through this class.

I live in the SF Bay Area. I was a TV commercial writer/director, private pilot and a sailor, but am taking a break from most of that to crank out work … 44 years after when I should have focused on this, but better late than never.