Stories I follow-stories I don't

Every now and then, I hear of another compelling story that needs a treatment. This one about a boxer who knows so and so who wants a writer to develop a 'scenario.' People can't imagine the work and time that needs to be gauged before a work is completed. At this stage, it's not about the money. I've no illusions anymore on that score. It is only can I do it well and will it excite me and is it worthy of the epic themes I want to broadstroke. I know one man's fight is heroic, but I need to immerse myself, also, in the history, the context of the character.I know when I get out West in July, the call of the Navajo, and those sandstone cliffs, will be my passion. There are faces in those cliffs. A Navajo hitchhiker with sun-beaten face and cherubic cheeks told me she sees her ancestors there. So, to the west, though I hope the boxer finds a good writer to tell his heroic tale.