Treatment

I wrote my treatment during my lunch break yesterday. I was in a fervor, it must be the heat. Usually I write on the train but I kept falling asleep, then waking up to the middle-aged actor in front of me cracking jokes about napping to his young lady friend with the phlegmy black lung voice. I suspect they were making fun of me because I was drooling on myself, but I could just be paranoid and extremely self-involved.

New Project

Ah, it's time to start my senior project.
Maybe writing about contemporary people will be easier than trying to conjure up historical swordplay. I think my life has been too cushy to properly inhabit the brain of plague-ridden peasants. I'd rather write about people who breed show-dogs.

More to come.

2nd Draft

I've actually gotten some ideas for things to add to my script to expand it a bit that I'm excited about. I know my ending is too anti-climactic so I still have to work on that but right now I'm going back to the beginning and weaving in the new stuff. Hopefully that will help me come to a natural conclusion with more excitement.

2nd Draft

I'm editing my second draft, which is infinitely more fun for me than finishing the first draft. Now that I have all the crap out in the open I can tease out some okay stuff. My first draft was seriously under the page limit but I've written out a scene that was omitted plus some edits that have me over. I am perpetually overly brief with things. I need to expand.

Neglect

I've neglected my blog in the wake of my furious writing. I did not write as much last week as I intended, so I've had to make up for it this week. Unfortunately I was sick for a few days, so that didn't help, but in the end it was procrastination that did me in. It shall not conquer me again.

On the upside, I found some amusing Medieval riddles that sound dirty but aren't. I injected them in my script, whether or not that was a good thing I will find out soon enough.

Still no internet

I still don't have internet, and I won't till the sixteenth, but in a way that has helped me because I can't distract myself when I sit down at my computer. Being in the midst of crew preseason is also difficult because 3 practices a day is tiring, but I always get more work done when I'm busy. I've written more during preseason than before it.
Really have to admit that historical is more difficult than the quiet character drama I did for SW II. But even if it ends up being crap I think it's still a good challenge.

The hardest part, a problem which I never had before, is dialogue. It's a subtle dance to try to make someone sound like they are from the 14th century without going overboard.

Update

Update: reached the halfway point. I'm finding it very hard to stop myself from constantly shifting the plotline. For the second half of the script I have to be careful not to give into the temptation to revamp too much until I'm done, otherwise I get all confused.

Moving into my house this weekend, gonna be a bit busy.