The 100 Girls, 100 Days Project

After a bad breakup, a twenty-eight year old attempts to date 100 girls in 100 days.

I originally pitched The 100 Girls, 100 Days Project as a bad romantic comedy to my writing partner. I never intended to write the movie, but fighting a bout of writer’s block I got myself a domain (http://100girls100days.com) and started it as a short fiction outlet, under the guise of it being factual. Before day fifty hit I was contacted by a variety of press, including The New York Times. I am also presently in talks with Leverage Management about optioning the story for film/television. Much like Chuck Klosterman’s Killing Yourself to Live, The 100 Girls, 100 Days Project is a hybrid of fiction/non-fiction. It  is also a completed, 50,000-word manuscript.

The 100 Girls, 100 Days Project is interesting foremost for being a male’s perspective on the dating world. It’s equal parts thoughtful, sarcastic, genuine and ridiculous. Raised on The Great Gatsby, The Legend of Zelda, and entirely too much sad bastard music, Travis Dillinger is a twenty-something who mutually wants to be saved and destroyed by women. What starts as a fun little experiment in picking up and meeting girls, takes Travis Dillinger to bouts of depression, apathy, alcoholism, and falling around the subject of love with one of his best friends, and his what-if girl. This novel chronicles all of his rejections, his successes, and drunken mistakes through the course of one hundred girls. It’s about a guy wading through the dating muck to see if a meaningful connection still exists, and figuring out if he even wants one.

I have been writing since the age of ten, and since the age of twenty most of that work is excellent. In addition to The 100 Girls, 100 Days Project, I have written another typo-ridden (but well-written) blog, Reasons Why I Hate Girls. I also have had two one-act plays performed by Marist College’s School of Liberal Arts. My portfolio also includes several completed spec sripts for both film and television.