How I Turned an Optioned Script into a Book

It started life two years ago as a film script called BlackBird, which is currently being made (production is set to start in May next year). The script took me 24 hours to write, and 12 to edit, it has 116 pages and around 17k words. There’s a blog post — Ireland-Based Screenwriter Options her First Script through Stage 32 — about how that all went and came to be.

Since this success story, that I would not have had without Stage 32, things kept piling up and piling up and piling up. I optioned another script, a gritty Irish gangster story with a kick-ass female lead, that is in development with an award winning female director.

I am currently working on scripts from different writers and producers, editing, advising, helping out (as far afield as the actual Hollywood, if I may say so).

Those gigs I got, because Stage 32 just kept on helping me, kept on pushing me. They made me insta-famous (which I’ve never been, which was awesome) and interviewed me live on @Stage32 — which in turn made people on LinkedIn take notice, which in turn now has landed me two gigs that I would not have had were it not for Stage 32’s continued support.

I was, from one moment to the next, a successful screenwriter.