A happy ending in puerto vallarta

By Deborah Stoll

I have come here to find love. Not in the traditional sense, but for the characters in the screenplay I am writing. Having reached the end of the script, a happy ending seemed wise. But days of staring down the final ten pages left me dulled and uninspired.

So I packed a bag and fled the mire of Los Angeles in search of inspiration south of the border. This idea came in part from reading "The Year of Magical Thinking", in which Joan Didion recalls escaping to Mexico with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, to work on a screenplay together without distraction. I was seduced by her nostalgia. I too wanted days of writing and nights of wine by the shore in the fragrant darkness.