Ashley Judd's acting career is pretty bland these days. She hasn't done anything interesting since the 1998 movie Simon Birch. So now she's trying her hand at writing.

According to Coming Soon, the least musically talented Judd has bought the rights to a Robin Morgan novel called The Burning Time, with the intention of adapting it into a screenplay herself.

Set during the Inquisition in Ireland, the book tells the story of a woman named Dame Alyce, marked as a dangerous heretic by an emissary of the Pope. Dame Alyce fights back and outwits the Church in a court trial and rails against the Catholic Church's invasion.

For Ashley Judd, this will be her first screenplay. She seems to have rather reasonable expectations for herself. She told CS's Edward Douglas, "I might fail spectacularly or succeed modestly."