So I scratched up my two copies of Burn after Reading, so I had to rent it again.  Before Clooney really blew up as a star and before Whiplash, there is the Coen brothers spy comedy or is it a romantic comedy?

 When I wrote a few of my short stories, I wanted to write a spy novel.  Thus, my current project.  But before then I wrote Bad News Days a short story.

Spy stories involve two things.  A very bad guy, a very bad thing and often a spy.

That‘s one thing that trips up my character Bart in Siolam a Black Bart Western.  Someone always sees something.  Think Tom Cruise in Oblivion.  He along with his companion are on earth to monitor power supplies.  Someone is always watching him.  Which presents issues for him and others.

People are curious thus the spy who can use his abilities and training to obtain useful information from anything and anybody.

I cannot wait to finish this new novel.

But until then you can find my fiction and nonfiction works here.

 http://www.amazon.com/Darrell-J-Banks/e/B00I33S10C

As I prepare this week’s DVD’s I avoided the western.  After all, I just wrote one called Siolam- A Black Bart Western

http://www.amazon.com/Siolam-Black-Western-Darrell-Banks/dp/1515299236/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442695944&sr=1-1&keywords=siolam

I am looking forward to The Boy Next door, because of an incident I had to delay my big screen viewing.  But Jennifer Lopez is always good for a thrill, remember U-turn with Sean Penn.

As I write my second novel, a spy espionage thing my intent is to make it character driven, like my screenplays.  Thus, it will contain boring details of the cities it encompasses, but wit will focus on the internal feelings.  Sort of like the second movie, I rented Maps to the Stars staring Julianne Moore as a star who is unraveling.

http://www.amazon.com/Bad-News-Short-Story-Series-ebook/dp/B00J150Q68?tag=duckduckgo-d-20

My protagonist Bart in Siolam never unraveled, he was the glue that kept   Beth and his followers together as they ride to capture or kill Big Ben and Kip.

So once again, I fell asleep on the Emmys.  Why?  Most award shows are eligible for an Emmy.

So why are they so boring?  I mean the host tried again and again, to startle the audience, but by the time, two cast members from Blackish showed up well.  It was lights out again.

Your characters must jump all the page.  My book Character Within the Screenplay covers that topic.

http://www.amazon.com/Character-within-Screenplay-Beginnings-Completion/dp/1453718826

When I wrote my latest novel Siolam- A Black Bart Western, I focused on the characters in March of 2014.  But that was all I know.

http://www.amazon.com/Siolam-Black-Western-Darrell-Banks/dp/1515299236/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442695944&sr=1-1&keywords=siolam

The novel differs from the screenplay in that if you choose to use a lot of conjunctions and adjectives and repetition, repetition, you can develop a novel.

But a novel like the screenplay, must repeat the story over and over again.

http://www.amazon.com/Character-within-Screenplay-Beginnings-Completion/dp/1453718826

When I woke up after the Emmys, or was it before I stopped watching the DVD Inception.

That movie had great characters and story line.  If you watch a movie repeatedly, you will learn that it repeats itself over again and again.  The hints are given in Act 2 and three.  Act 1 establishes the premise.

In my new novel Siolam, the story is circular, so you have to pay attention; the ending is wide open so it will be up to readers to determine if the protagonist rides again.

The other day I saw Black Mass, back in the day when I worked in the legal system in Mass.  Mr. B. was the most noted king pin.  Does Johnny Depp give a great performance?

Well as noted in my book character within the screenplay.

http://www.amazon.com/Character-within-Screenplay-Beginnings-Completion/dp/1453718826

You need to think about a character before you create the protagonist.

Here there was no protagonist development.  The other secondary characters were sucked in.

In my current, book Siolam.

http://www.amazon.com/Siolam-Black-Western-Darrell-Banks/dp/1515299236/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442695944&sr=1-1&keywords=siolam

The protagonist must learn when to kill and not to kill.

In Black Mass, the protagonist never learns not to kill.

So it’s been almost five years since I published my first book.

http://www.amazon.com/Character-within-Screenplay-Beginnings-Completion/dp/1453718826

What is the difference in writing a novel verses a screenplay?

Novels’ are more intense, screenplays are mostly visual, and your focus is on the protagonist, not the surroundings.  While modern screenplays have some exposition to help the story buyer, reader, producer etc grasp the concept the novel is intense.

My current novel is Siolam

http://www.amazon.com/Siolam-Black-Western-Darrell-Banks/dp/1515299236/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442695944&sr=1-1&keywords=siolam

Okay, so I spent several more days, editing, checking formating etc. I read digital proofs, a print proof, used correction marks etc to produce my 297 page novel. Siolam.

Do I feel relieved.relieved, not really. Now I  have to promote the book. I have to market the book   without twitter and face-book. That's another story for another day.

It took a little longer delayed by well, (I'll have to wait to tell that story, but let's just say March 2 is a big date in my life.

Since I'm writing another novel about 190 pages so far 6 x9, I'm not sure if I'm ready to go back to nonfiction and screenplays. Only time will tell.

So for now here is Siolam.

http://www.amazon.com/Siolam-A-Black-Bart-Western/dp/1515299236%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-d-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1515299236

So I haven't blogged in a while, 

What's new?

First, I completed the first novel and tried to raise funds for a professional edit and cover on indiego go. 

That is not going so well. So I'll read the book again a few more times order a proof in a few weeks and then send some proofs to Publishers Weekly etc.  Then set a print publication date.

Hired a social media manager (a relative) so I will see how indie go go goes. 

Also started the second novel at Chapter three, so this one should not take a year to write.

This is the indie go go site if you want to help. If not as they say at Oscar (tm) and Emmy (tm) https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/professional-edit-and-cover-art-for-siolam

THANKS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION