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Page Count: Still 80

It's not that I have no discipline. Not really. I went away for the weekend to a pagan festival and had such a good time that I didn't come back for two weeks. Physically it was just a weekend. Emotionally it was two weeks. For two weeks I threw an emotional tantrum and refused to do anything ... pretty much. Spent a lot of time mourning my lack of ideal life and dreams that will never come true.

I finally came around yesterday and got the script out and read it over. Man, have I forgotten a lot. Whoever said visit your characters every day was right!

In the meantime, I have discovered Patrick Horton who writes these really good articles on scriptwriting. I started answering the seven questions and got through five. They are tough questions and good questions. I had a small revelation about the screenplay story and why I'm writing it. So that's kind of sinking in.

Tomorrow I must write at least one page. At least.

Today's Page Count: 80

I wrote for about 30 minutes and am now at 80 pages on the screenplay. Nothing like a little love scene to add to the page count.

I've installed the Session Timer into Celtx which tells me how many minutes and words I've done. The plot continues to develop in unsuspected ways. I like it.

Refined the log line on IndieGoGo. Seems to help to have a more targeted summary. Have you ever been over to imdb.com and read the log lines? The Star Wars ones are distinguished in that they name actual characters. I guess when you own your own madly successful studio you can write the log lines anyway you want.

An hour a day

To keep moving forward on the script, which is now at 76 pages, I'm going to write an hour a day. Today it was actually 46 minutes. That's okay. Will try again tomorrow.

Signed up for IndieGoGo on the recommendation of Script Frenzy. Not ready to link to my project yet. The title is half formed, the log line a bit squashed and the summary needs more words. Promise to keep working on it. They say you never get perfect, but I think half-formed is not good enough.

World Beach Project - My Contribution

I finally got around to making art on the beach with stones as part of the World Beach Project sponsored by the Victoria and Albert Museum in England. I took my pattern from the tracks on the beach of crabs, spiders, birds, dogs, people and who-knows-what.

20 years ago you could stand on the beach and scoop up crabs. Now you're lucky if you see one. Two years ago new rules on harvesting the crabs were made and the population is growing again. The dead spots created by dredging, now banned, are coming alive again. My pattern is based on the sand crab track pattern and leads to a sand crab hole. After I finished, I watched the crab emerge repeatedly from it's hole and fling out sand.

I'm not sure my pattern is really a track. It ended up more of a code, actually. Anyway, it was fun and inspiring. For about 15 minutes I wanted to get a travel trailer and ride down the coast making stone patterns on every beach I could find.
the finished piece

Script Frenzy over - screenplay not done

I made it to 74 pages. I believe I can finish the story and the screenplay if I write a little everyday. But not today. Ha ha.

There an interesting site called MakingOf, apparently the brain-child of Natlie Portman, which has a ton of those "making of" videos. Amongst all that I found this lovely article about writing everyday. Sounds like good advice to me and a good reason to start another blog. Yikes!