17:
It’s been manic at work recently, pulled two twelve hour days already this week and probably another today. With the commute that adds another four hours to each day. I’m existing on six hours sleep a night, coffee, cigarettes and whatever food I can find (picky eater rather than bin-diver).
I’m so tired I feel like I’ve been drinking.
I was stuffed with cold over the long Easter weekend so didn’t get around to writing any script which has but me way behind schedule, I should be at about fifty or so pages and I’ve currently managed twenty or so. The finish line seems a long way off and next week looks like another crazy work week, the only writing time I get is on the train to and from work at the moment.
Still, I love the script so far and hope it’s got some fresh takes on old fairy tale ideas. I might post some excerpts later.
03:
I ripped out 5 pages of dialogue from my script this morning and lost a character in the process.
It reads very much more like a fairy tale now.
I’ll miss my brain-damaged toilet-monikered hero Doulton though.
02:
So, I had a good day yesterday. Managed nine pages in total. Another two on the train this morning and wrote myself out of a cul-de-sac, invented a cool character and moved the story on to act two… Take that Ideas Toad!
01:
Well I fired up the netbook with its spangly new OS (the latest Ubuntu is gorgeous) and a fresh copy of Celtx (never used it before, already love it) and started tapping out the stuff thast’s been in my head for the last few days. So far so good. Two pages done on the way into work and a journey home and an empty house this evening hopefully means that I’ll get my way up to at least five before I forget everything.
I’m really glad I got the geeky stuff I needed done out of the way last night, I’m free to defecate poor movie scripts into the world at my own pace now.
Shock realisation that none of my major characters have names or in fact will get them.
I should really get more of it down on paper though. You know, with a pen and that.
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