Well it took me two months to get draft 12 to Jen Frankel. She will likely find a zillion things for me to work on and I see draft 20 just around the corner ... I told her prior I had taken risks and made some choices ... I really really did ... I think ... I have two main characters, Marc age 14 and Michael probably age 15 - I say probably age 15 because he has no idea how old he is or when his birthday is. Marc is the lead and the story is really seen through his eyes but Michael was always this mystery person and with each draft I expose more and more of Michael I worry at the expense of Marc.

Actors who have read this script fall in love with Michael and there is this concern that the point of view is shifting. Michael was a real person in my life a lot of years ago. He died of AIDS at the age of 39 in the year 2000 and I miss him a lot.

For anyone that is any way compelled to know more, the character descriptions follow:

Marc, 14, is an only child from a suburban upper middle class Catholic family with more than all the comforts of home. However, home is one of neglect and disillusionment. He is a loner, at times angry and naive making him vulnerable but also bit of a survivor. Always looking for ways to hide or escape, he conceals himself in his bedroom, is an avid runner and keeps a journal; a diary with poems and short stories.

Michael, an outcast, carefree and mysterious, is an orphaned city street kid who lives in an abandoned pickup-truck in an alley. As a street kid, he is much older and wiser then his age of perhaps 15. Even with rough edges, there is a gentleness and sweetness about him underlying his Emo persona including makeup, nail polish and piercings which he hides behind and takes refuge in his sketchbook of drawings.