Hey people who may be reading this, sorry for the long absence. Recovering from the holidays and surgery. Don’t worry, I’m fine, but not quite up to blogging yet. Still having my every whim catered to by my family, so I’m just going to milk that for a while. Only came back to mark some Eddie comments as spam. Because they were kinda gross.
See you in a few days, promise.
First acts are probably the easiest. And I write short anyway. This one clocks in at exactly 22 pages, written in just over a week. 9 days coming out to over 2 pages a day, though that’s certainly not how it was written. 12 last weekend, 10 this weekend. Nothing like my 15 page a day peek last summer, but then, I have a full time job and several part time gigs.
I am going to polish it up and send it to the manager guy sometime this week. Although it’s a first draft kind of, it’s not really.
I first wrote out the idea as a short film, which I shot 2 summers ago. Then, last summer, I wrote out a 4 page treatment and character profiles. And then, last fall, I did 40 index card outline. And then I hand wrote it the last month. So the typed version is not really a first draft, but it still feels fresh, new and exciting.
Hopefully I can get some feedback before I send it off to more judgmental eyes.
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Tomorrow, the editor starts on the show I’m working on. I’m hoping to get to know him at least somewhat.
Sometime this week I need to meet with the actress whose reel I’m working on. She has some notes on it. Unfortunately, for what she’s paying me, I can’t afford to spend much more time on it, so hopefully when we meet this week we’ll be able to put it to bed.
I also need to finish this assembly/rough of the short I got last weekend. I’m about halfway through, but I wanted to be done tonight.
I also wanted to have the pilot for this web series written. I just need to sit down and bang something out, even if it’s crap, to get it off my plate. I’m just having a hard time drumming up enthusiasm for a 3 page script. It’s so little to work with.
The web series that I worked on and was going to post supervise and edit isn’t going to be happening. The deal they were getting was just unmanageable, which is a shame.
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I have no idea what I’ll be doing as a job come Nov. 2. I spent the day e-mailing back and forth with my G.G.Aunt Margaret. I’m learning a lot about my family history and it’s all very cool and strange at the same time.
Tonight was the last night of my antibiotics for my weird strep, which the doctor thinks may be the cause of my severe fatigue and dizziness. Thank God, because I’m having to really focus on keeping it down. Nothing like knowing you can’t throw up because you’ll lose your medication.
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Obviously I’m still a bit bummed on the Nicholl Snafu but I’m excited that there are possibly going to be phone calls this week. I really should have busted my ass to get a new draft of Bible Con done, but who knows, I may have gotten rid of whatever made it SF material.
And their cock up (sorry, too much Gordon Ramsay) was good in the sense that I broke 200 visitors in a day by posting it. And I discovered a few new screenwriting resources because message boards linked to me and sent traffic my way. DoneDeal and Zoetrope, if anyone is curious. I’ve never been much a part of the online screenwriting community because I know so many writers in the flesh, but it could be a cool avenue.
And if I haven’t said it before, Greg Beal is a class act — he’s everywhere online apologizing, explaining, and taking people’s thoughts into consideration. I’m really impressed with him. Now, if he could get some different people working the phones…
So the webseries thing keeps ping ponging back and forth between happening and not happening. If it does happen, I’m probably going to lose my Thanksgiving. Theoretically also my Christmas, except I’m not willing to give up my Christmas and my Thanksgiving. So.
There’s another short that I’ve been contacted about. I just got the script, it’s cute, but quite long for a ‘short’. I find that to be a common problem. Short shorts get shown more!
And! Excitingly! A producer/director team contacted me to read my script. This was from an ad on Mandy (see the link on the sidebar) and they contacted me very quickly. So far Inktip has been a complete disappointment. The script has come up on maybe 6 people’s searches, and no one’s read the synopsis. It could be a problem of the logline, but, seeing the company names, it just seems like it’s not being found by people who are interested in comedy.
I took a benadryl and a claritin this morning, meaning I had two antihistamines in my system when I went to get my allergy skin test done. My reaction was so terrible that they called everyone who works there in to see.
Dr: Are you trying to win a prize?
Me: No allergies would be a good one, you got that?
Dr: Oh. Um, well.
And, for people like me who can’t get enough of other people’s medical melodrama, you can click here for the picture.
Last night I had a long production meeting about a webseries that I’ve been tapped to be the Post Supervisor/Lead Editor on. Which is exciting, but we’re not sure when the production is actually going to get produced. So, right now, there are 3 different web series that I’m theoretically on board for but that aren’t quite getting produced just yet. I’m still hoping that something comes through in the next couple weeks, but we’ll see.
The production was in the house of someone with cats. I am very allergic to cats, I don’t understand why people have cats. It’s like rubbing peanuts all over your house. Sure, not everyone is allergic, but a lot of people are, and the ones that are have a real bad reaction.
Anyway, I was already woozy and weird and now one of my eyes is swollen shut. So I called in sick to work, because I didn’t want to drive with one eye only kind of working and then have to sit in front of a computer in an allergic haze. Yeah.
I’m trying to get in to this medical research thing about allergies. I’m going to get a skin prick test today. Seriously, anything for money out here. I was disappointed when the ad for an adult film editor was taken off craigslist. Hey, it’s work!
K. I’m going to crawl back in bed for a while. I’m hoping my eye returns to a normal size before I’m supposed to go to the doctor.
