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INT. CHAZ’S HOUSE - EVENING The room is loaded with guys, all drinking beer, and TALKING. Two more of Chaz’s buddies -- LITTLE FRANKIE, a true short black guy who wears swim trunks like shorts with a wife- beater T-shirt, glasses and low-cut, afro-style hair; and AUSTIN, a lanky, tall, dark-haired geek who wears jeans and a T-shirt with an actual tie around his neck; both stand out. CHAZ  Guys! You ready? Little Frankie let’s out a GROAN as soon as his butt hits the seat cushion and leaps back up. LITTLE FRANKIE  What the fuck?! He smells his wet hand. LITTLE FRANKIE (CONT’D)  Is that mother-fucking piss? He looks down at a wet spot. Bo comes in and tosses down a towel. BO  Yep, Lemur took a whizz. Sorry man. CHAZ  Shit, Bo, you said ... BO  Yeah, man, OK all right. It’s just a little ‘wetty’. LITTLE FRANKIE  Fuck off! Did you just say ‘wetty’?

In my coaching class, Erica has you pick a superhero. Mine is "Enthusiastic Elektra," and let me just say that my enthusiasm runneth over today. First, I am so jazzed. I'm "Elektra-fied" jazzed. I've been working on a script project for a few months now, and we're putting finishing touches on it. Before we even finished up the final revision, my client pitched to a big name producer (who I will not reveal quite yet), and he was cracking up and offered to help shepherd it through. Who you know in this business is 9/10th of the battle. So, the producer's help to either possibly acquire the script or help introduce us to an agent is HUGE. I'm so on top of the enthusiasm world right now. And my new novel California Girl Chronicles is moving along swimmingly. I'm on chapter 3, and I can't wait to introduce readers to the quirky world of Brea Harper, hopeless romantic and hapless but also smart and driven. It will be in the tone of the Sookie ...