No Story Time-Screenwriting When Life Takes Over

I am in the middle of a huge relocation.. yet again... and I am too stressed out to write. Inspiration is not the problem. My brain is actually fried from stress. In fact, just writing this post seems taxing...  and I know it's a mess. I keep thinking that if I can just get past the holidays, the new year is going to be awesome for my writing.

Well, my plan to overcome this in the meantime is to print out the script and read it in hard copy and blue pencil the heck out of it this weekend... that should promote some re-write material...

ugh...  i can't think straight right now.. this sucks...

 

 

Page 72 & A Preview Of My Lolita Costume For Comikaze

So I just completed 72 pages of my current script and I actually could have kept going, but I stopped myself to think about a scene I added and whether or not it affects something earlier in the story. What do you do when you change something and you need to go back and make sure it's laced through the story properly?

I usually make a note on an index card and come back to it, but for some reason this time I felt like I needed to stop and think about the overall impact of the change. So that is where I am right now. A couple more sessions and I will have the first draft.

In other news, I have compiled all the pieces for my Sweet Lolita costume for Comikaze. Now, I know that Stan Lee has nothing to do with Sweet Lolita's or Kawaii, but I just wouldn't make a very good Cat Woman. So I decided to have fun with it. I have always wanted to go all out with a Kawaii Sweet Lolita Look.

What do you think of my choices for the outfit?

 

 

Tricking Myself Into Writing

I just passed page 60 on my current screenplay. That is 60 pages in under 2 months. For me, that is a great pace. I find that by telling myself I only have to write ONE PAGE and then I am free to do other non-productive things, like gaming, television or social media, I actually trick myself into writing much more. 

I click the Movie Magic Screenplay icon, read back a couple of pages and get going on my supposed ONE PAGE, but I never stop at one page. Once I get myself in the zone, it's so fluid that I can't stop till I have exhausted my brain, which isn't easy to do. One page turns into ten naturally.

Overcoming that first objection by telling myself I am only committing to ONE PAGE seems to work for me. Do you have a trick that works for you?

Purple & Page 32

This isn't much of a blog for today. I'm sorry about that.

I am up to page 32 on the screenplay now.

I promised myself one page and it turned into 7. I love when that happens. Don't you?

I also colored my bangs purple which isn't screenplay related, but note worthy. 

All that AND I spent some time by the pool with my niece and nephew earlier. 

That is a day well spent! How is your writing coming along?

 

 

Index Card Explosion - Screenwriting is dangerous!

I was in the middle of organizing some scenes and needed a bit more light. So naturally I flipped the switch to turn on my desk lamp...  forgetting that it also controls the fan I have in that room.

WOOSH! 

I went from thinking somberly about the motivation on my character to frantically trying to catch his story as it spun around the room in a flurry.I turned off the fan and the little squares of white paper floated to the floor and settled, some face up, some face down... some on the desk, some on the chair, some stuck in the blinds...

I just stood there for a minute and looked at them, in the middle was a card that had landed standing up on it's edge in the carpet... it read "CRASH!" 

For a minute I thought about the crash scene and began to back track from that point as I picked up the cards and re-organized them.

THE LIGHT WENT ON! (NOT LITERALLY THIS TIME).

A great idea for that scene just HIT ME...  I think this happy accident was the catalyst for an idea that will totally upgrade the entire story.

I have now TACKED the index cards to the wall, they won't get away from me again, but is that really a good thing?