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Day 12: November 12
From my personal blog, April 27, 2008:
"I was watching 'Step it up and Dance' on Bravo yesterday morning. At one point before Tovah got eliminated, one of the judges told her something along the lines of the following: 'You're a beautiful girl, completely gorgeous, but when I see you dance, I don't see someone who has to dance or die.' Tovah was a good dancer, but it did seem she had no heart to it. She felt blocked, like she had something to write, or in her case, dance through, before she really saw what it would do for her (she's only 21 I think so she has plenty of time)."
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typed up what i wrote yesterday and now I have 20 pages. :)
which probably translates to five typed pages (I really write HUGE when I really get going). There's a lot of gaps and cross outs and arrows re-arranging the work (I can't help but edit as the picture in my head changes) but I sat down and wrote it out this afternoon after my accidentally an hour and a half (!) massage. It was awesome. And my stomach is all better too. Amazing what a day off will do.
And now at the end of the day.... It's smack down time! Worked on four scenes for the collection today. Four! Booya! Smack those words down! Ok I'm down with the exclamation marks. But it was really fun being a writer today. The characters were fun to write and one of the scenes almost made me tear up. That is the coolest feeling to get goosebumps from your writing. It's completely legal (in small emotional doses) metaphorical crack. The writing was exciting today. I felt like a big time serious writer today.
Well, I'm slowly sneaking up to that big place where all the question marks float around and attack all the ideas you previously latched on to. Not to say that my ideas aren't still worthy, just that i have no idea where they are going or how to get to some of the plot points I have envisioned. Especially this abstract dream scene I was looking forward too. Boo.
Well, today and yesterday were slow. I'm going to mull some more with a total of 22 pages under my belt and hope some clarity comes to me tomorrow.
I was so set to write after work yesterday. Then I saw the interview with the woman who had survived being mauled by a chimp (I work from home, and my family had the day off so the tv was on). And I was just so affected by seeing this poor woman and her inner strength and courage that I just couldn't focus on anything else that night. It was just too sad and really affected me.
But here I am, a new day, half an hour left of work tonight. And I need to get something done today. I have a "skills lab" tomorrow at school with the MFA directors and BFA actors, and I want to work on something new with them rather than something that's been discussed in our workshop already. Hopefully I can get out a full scene or two tonight. It's been much harder this year than it was last year. I also have a ton more on my plate than last year, but that doesn't stop me from feeling guilty that I've been so bad this month.
I was on vacation. I'm somewhere between 25 and 30 pages.
-Joshua
Just landed safe and sound in Zagreb. Had some fabulous insights into my characters and my play on the flights to get here, but need time to write and don't know when I shall get it. Still, feeling good!
"When in doubt, have a man enter the room with a gun in his hand." Raymond Chandler
Hmmm. I don't think I'm in the Write or Die camp. I think I'm in the writing makes me live camp.... Writing makes me alive. Yesterday was a dud, by choice. I was exhausted all day, other work floated to the forefront and instead of beating myself up, I went for a walk on the beach. Beautiful.
Today I feel like a million bucks. I woke up with dialogue dancing in my head and I'm ready to get writing. My goal is to have a rough start to every play in my collection by Sunday and I think I can make it!
Onward and upward! Write for life!
Hmmm. I don't think I'm in the Write or Die camp. I think I'm in the writing makes me live camp.... Writing makes me alive. Yesterday was a dud, by choice. I was exhausted all day, other work floated to the forefront and instead of beating myself up, I went for a walk on the beach. Beautiful.
Today I feel like a million bucks. I woke up with dialogue dancing in my head and I'm ready to get writing. My goal is to have a rough start to every play in my collection by Sunday and I think I can make it!
Onward and upward! Write for life!
Punter--
Sleep fixes everything! Colds, stress, and issues with writing...eventually.
I am refreshed and ready to go this morning. How about you?
A page is a page. Don't judge it. Just write, write, write!
Today is Thursday.
I have written 1 page.
I have allowed myself to be distracted.
Tomorrow I will try to be focussed.
All the poetry is gone.
I'm off to find it (passively, while I sleep).
Everything in life should be as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler - Albert Einstein