Why did I get to bed so late?
Well, last night I went through some script notes by a trusted online friend that ripped one of my scripts apart. It’s been about four years since I last read them – maybe more. But boy, was it harsh (in a constructive way) and totally on the money. He picked through all the holes and focused on everything he didn’t like in the script. First prefacing the critique with his opinion and respect for me as a writer and then going for my throat. It’s what I asked him to do. I told him to tear it apart. It was THE BEST analysis of the script I’ve ever received. It wasn’t sugar coated, it wasn’t just an overall view, it was a detailed dissection of the script and everything that DID NOT work. He did point out the things he liked but really didn’t focus on them. Everything else worked… it was what he pointed out that didn’t - and he pointed out a lot.
I think that’s one reason I put the script aside. It was just too much work
I recently read the script. It’s okay. It’s doable. It’s simple and if someone wanted to shoot it, it’s probably ready to go. But its not as good as it should be.
Two different parties have shown interest in it this year. Yet I have yet to get motivated to start on the rewrite passing the script off as ‘good enough.’ Well… it isn’t. So after reading the critique once again it made me feel like Charlie Kaufman in “Adaptation” where he utters his mantra, “I am fat, I am old, I am bald, I am repulsive, I can’t write.”
Except I’m not bald.
Last night I sat through and rewrote for two and a half hours making it to page 36 of the 100+ page feature. It felt good. It felt right. It felt different to be eight years removed from the original 1998 Chesterfield Fellowship Semi-Finalist script - which I wrote at age thirty - to be thirty eight years old and really seeing the characters in a completely different light. Instead of writing the characters to meet my age, social status, career and view of the future, I’m able to push them back to College years where finishing college is a very important goal, the future is not career but passing a class, and true love is still a concept. Along the way you find love, you suffer from heartbreak and you see your best friends start their future. It makes the characters more identifiable to more people. They are less set in their ways and more spontaneous, love sick, romantic and desperate. It felt good. It made me want to stay home and write – which I haven’t been inclined to do lately.
So the writing will continue.
I feel like a writer once again.
Prior to my rewriting I had a great workout!!!
So on to…
TRI-TRAINING NEWS…
My legs were still fatigued from Monday night’s hard run so I did a very easy 30 minute 2.5 miles. I’m talking easy, easy, easy. I built up a good sweat, my heart rate was around Zone 3 as a guess, but it didn’t matter. I was going for time versus miles. And all the way to the gym I kept trying to come up with an excuse to head back home.
I headed upstairs to do weight training and decided to push my sets to three instead of two. Last week I added ten more pounds to my weights on most of my sets. So I’m doing an extra set with more weight now. It’s awesome. It felt so damn good to walk out of the gym exhausted. It was a very leg-intensive workout as well. They were sore. I’m also trying to do a short core workout every time I go to the gym even if it’s not my core training day.
I haven’t logged any swim time in a while mostly because I’ve been too lazy to do the whole, change into swim clothes, get wet, get dry, change to workout clothes, run and do weights. But I’m motivated to do that tomorrow, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I’m aiming for four straight days of swim time!
IN X-BOX ADDICTION NEWS…
I love FIFA 06.
Jake is okay with it. He’d like it better if it was easier to score. He’s pretty good on the defensive end so that’s a plus for me. I let him score from time to time and one goal per game is enough to keep him interested. Sometimes he’s able to get a goal on his own which is good. Giving him a one goal lead presses me to try and find a way to score one on my. If I can get at least a tie we go into the penalty shot mode as a tie breaker - which is fun. This game is absolutely fun. It’s one of my favorite games. The only problem is that it is incredibly hard to score. I can get several shots off, I’ve figured out all the passing and ball handling techniques, but I just can’t figure out how to place my shots with accuracy.
This is a serious challenge and one of X-Box’s best games to ever come out!
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