Real Life Boring Blah-Blah

[kungfuwaynewho]

Kind of a boring week.  Last night the heat finally broke, but it's been right around 100 actual temperature the last week or so, and high 90s for a few weeks before that; it just saps your will-power, it really does.  Day before yesterday, I was so bored and was actually getting kind of depressed about sitting around inside the house - there's only so long you can occupy yourself making icons and reading fanfic and playing Burger Shop.  But the heat index was 115 and I just could not make myself have any desire to leave the nice air conditioned house; even just walking from the car to a store or Starbucks or whatever is enough to make you sweat.  Plus, my car doesn't have AC, so that's always fun to drive around in when it's this hot.

Today's in the 80s, though, so I sat outside and read a little, which was very nice.  I think I might go up to Starbucks and write later; my grad school roommate and I are pulling our old TV pilot out of storage.  Scriptapalooza's having a TV contest in October, and usually those things only accept spec scripts for existing shows, but they're taking pilots.  It's amazing how not looking at something in three years gives you absolute objectivity; it was easy to go through and see what worked and what didn't, and what definitely didn't.  We're working on the beat outline now, and should start drafting by the beginning of September. 

We're also still workshopping my new script in my local writer's group; we've got about 45 pages to go, or two or three sessions.  Once we're done, I'll go through all the notes and come up with a revision manifesto.  One thing I've noticed with each new script is that it takes me less drafts to get to something decent.  With Flesh and Blood back in the day, it really wasn't until about draft four or five that it held up as a solid movie; Fall River took three; this new script, even though it's just a first draft, is pretty okay.  I mean, it has problems, but there's no plot holes or huge characterization problems.  I may be...getting better as a writer?  That would be exciting.

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[nhpw.livejournal.com]

*Nods* I am multi-tasking today - finishing "Two-Thirds" and proofreading Sheridan-funny and catching up on a day's worth of e-mails and trying to figure out what I want to do about the suggestions you gave me. (I would totally have failed in an encounter with Mr. Morden. It takes me 15 minutes just to decide what I want to order in a restaurant, and this counts as somehow WAY more important than a burger. I'da probably said, "Um, can you go away so I can think about it and then come back and ask me again next week?" or something.) Thanks so much for your help.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I gave you suggestions...I am trying to remember about what, heh. I've just never used the LJ message thing much before, so I was literally just checking to see if you got it.

That would have been a funny scene. "What do I want? Hmm...let me think about that. I'll probably have to make a list of the things I want and then narrow it down. Do you want me to pull you up a chair?"

[nhpw.livejournal.com]

That is so totally me it's not even funny.

It took me 15 minutes to figure out how to SEND a private message, LOL. I am clearly not as computer savvy as someone of my generation might be expected to be.

You gave me suggestions on what to do about the background/motif for Sheridan's super-secret "I wanna do Delenn" diary. I think I like the second one. My Major Fail is that I don't have Photoshop, which is the root of all of my Creativity Suck with regard to this project, I think.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Oh! Those suggestions! I didn't even think those were suggestions.

The second one I can modify however you like; size, shape, colors, design. Just let me know.

And, um, also, if you want Photoshop? Just, um, let me know. I know a super-cheap place. Yeah.