Screenwriter's Gather

Richer or Poorer

I have no financial woes unless Social Security and Medicare goes. My tiny bucket list includes being part of a movie project. As long as the fascists let us old folk eat, breathe, and have access to the internet, I will keep thinking and writing about the imagined writer’s gathering around the long table overlooking the South Shrewsbury River in the Better Duck Inn, in Little Silver New Jersey.

The Better Duck Inn, is where the captain of our also imagined Research Vessel Bowser, grew up fishing and crabbing in an estuary that was recovering from centuries of abuse and neglect…An ecological success story, one hour south of New York City.

The local environs were overflowing with scientists, engineers, and inventors of all stripes, who worked the region’s countless top-secret projects start to finish. The Bowser’s captain’s backstory is rich in both marine biology and the skullduggery ever present in her environment.

The writers were always present, so much so that the child ignored them. She spent far more time with the Better Duck’s cook and grounds keeper, but mostly our future captain was on the river. Top secret projects needed writers and billions of dollars. There were always bad guys trying to weasel their way into laboratories on or near The Shrewsbury. Security was always an issue for everybody.

Spring Lake, New Jersey, Today South of Shrewsbury on the board walk built by the WPA originally.