Happy Friday!In between rounds of pitching the new series I've been going where the fun is, which means pushing forward on my crime novel. I hit 25k words on Thursday, a little more than halfway. It’s going to be a fairly short book. When I was learning to write television I spent some time with a remote in one hand and a pen in the other, breaking down episodes to study the structure. Yesterday I did the same thing with the classic crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by George V. Higgins. It’s also a short book, 30 chapters over 192 pages in the print edition. I broke each chapter down into a simple logline just to see how he moved the story forward. It really is just a collection of very simple scenes, often no more than two or three characters, heavy on dialogue. Because I was worried about my chapters being too short I had overpacked them with more than one scene or sequence, often with a little transition in between. After studying Eddie Coyle I went back today and chopped those bigger chapters at the scene breaks, which led to me cutting that transitional fat, getting into those scenes later and out much earlier, more like I’m used to doing in a script.It was nice to hit a point where my skills were transferrable.I'll update you on any progress as soon as I'm able.Hope you have a great weekend!