Something’s Wrong

I don’t know what’s happening at the moment. I haven’t done any real writing since January.

I want to. I open the page. I can feel my head fill with words. But the synapse that tells me to move my fingers about the keyboard so words then appear on my screen doesn’t fire.

I don’t know what this is. It doesn’t feel like writer’s block since I’m “writing” in my head (or at least shuffling them about), it’s just a ‘nothing’.

It’s not helpful.

Even now my fingers feel not like my own. But this is something. Even writing this down might

Now I’m deleting words the more I look at this…

 

Publish.

Fresh Start

Tomorrow, I take a step back in order to push forward. I have ideas, stories, characters, etc., floating around my head and it’s time to make sense of them and of what I want to do.

So, everything becomes fresh. I’ve taken some time away from writing and I’ve got catching up to do.

From tomorrow…

Christmas Time, One Last Call For Alcohol…

So, as Christmas crawls slowly towards us all and the year begins to end… Begins to end?

Never mind any of that.

It’s a tricky time of year and I’m definitely feeling it, certainly regarding any writing. Time to hang up the pen for a while and “get a fresh start Monday” – you know, sometime near the end of January thing.

Okay, the ‘want to be busy’ part of me will probably force some out some doodling here and there, but the last and first months of the year seem to be the “Spring Cleaning” of my head, so it will probably just get scrapped later on. Who knows?

It’s late. I just spent the last half an hour kicking some ideas out of my head. That will probably be the last ‘scripting’ I do until I start up again next year.

I wonder if any of it will make it into the script…

… As Long As I’m Writing, I Guess…

Wow, I haven’t been here in a while. There’s Facebook and Twitter, so it’s not like I’ve been away.

So, over a month later and where do I find myself? Working hard on a logline – around 30 words, summarising about 90 minutes of movie that hasn’t even been written yet. But this is apparently how it’s done.

I say “working hard”, but the logline is done now, so I can move onto the outline and synopsis.

I bet you can’t guess which one is meant to be done first.

I do enjoy scriptwriting, but it’s the internet – EVERYBODY is a scriptwriter. Lucky me, my “field” is filling up fast.

Still, I think even at this stage, I have created more “art” than half that lot.

But my point is, I wanted to actually write a book, and I will, but right now, scriptwriting is something that needs to be done – a book is my Everest, but a script is Mt. Kosciusko compared to that. Nowhere near the struggle, plus it’s much closer to my childhood dream of actually filming movies.

Not just movies, but stories, stories I made. For me, that’s mostly been because as a kid they always seemed to make anything into a movie, even stupid things that nobody could possibly care about – like this movie I saw about this dog, I think it was lost or dying or something, then it wasn’t and some lady who may not have even been the dog’s owner comes and collects it. It even had a stupid slow motion “running towards each other” thing. It was retarded.

I’m also pretty awesome at storyboarding.

Anyway, looks like I’ll be working on a “screenplay” for some time now.

Should be fun.

Script

So where have I been?

About two weeks ago, I got an idea for another story in my head, so I wrote the basic plot down and then decided to write it as a script. Just for the hell of it. Then the original plot became something bigger and I was set to see the entire thing through.

First came story, then came outline and tonight I started on the treatment.

2/3′s of the way already, even though it looks and reads more like a “pitch”, as long as it explains the story, I’m golden.

Then it’s attributing scenes to specific points in each “act”, followed by a rewrite/summary of each act, after which I draw up an index map from the outline and finally moving onto scripting.

I’m not too far away from there, end of the week at the latest.

Where does this leave the book? It’s just on hold for a bit while I retread old writing territory.

It shouldn’t take too long before I’m back to it.

Reprint

Current – 24464 words

Remaining – 15536 words

“Deadline” – 45 days

Still pushing through.

I don’t know what else to say at this point. I’m writing. I’m re-writing. I’m editing, sort of.

While 40K words is the goal for the end of next month. The way it’s looking, I’m probably not going to get much more than that out of this story. But I may surprise myself, it has happened before. I guess I’m saying now that as long as I can get 50K words total, then that’s acceptable. NaNoWriMo accepts that many words as making it a “novel”, so that right there is some justification.

And that’s all I’m hoping for.

 

Rollicking

Current – 24123 words

Remaining – 15877 words

“Deadline” – 47 days

It’s hard to figure out exactly how much I am writing since I have to delete a bunch of notes depending on where I am in the story, notes which unfortunately make up a chunk of that current word count, enough to make a difference anyway.

Although, I am sure as long as what I’m adding is far greater than what I’m replacing, that count isn’t too far out.

Double spaced, I’m at a page count of 73, which is 73 pages longer than I’ve been before. In anything that counts that is.

If the 700+ words I did tonight is accurate, then I’m going to crack that 25K by a week from yesterday easily. I might as well change that to 30K. That way it’s not too big a deal if I don’t make it since I’ve easily made the 25K.

Okay, I’m cheating, but I’m only cheating myself, so that’s like not cheating at all.