the PATIENCE of christ

after what seems like months, i’ve finally gotten the second draft of my script in the bag. it took a lot of retooling, and a lot of focusing in and clarification, but in the end it just took a bunch of writing. i spent the whole day in and out of the script editor, nailing down the last few pieces that had to be figured out, and then just banging that shit out. ooohh my head. the whole third act (of a tiny baby 12 page script) was revised, so that’s where the bulk of my efforts went.

it was an interesting revision process, and the writing was not nearly as demanding as i had imagined it would be. trades were made between drafts, from exposition-heavy to light-weight dialogue. the whole thing runs a lot more smoothly now, but it’s tough to say if story heft was lost in the abandonment of words. we’ll have to see how it stands up against review again. but at least now i’m past writing (the struggle) and i’m onto refining again.

ideally, only minor tweaks remain, and then i can launch into pre-production and start to get this shit off the ground. funny that a project that was spawned from a desire to churn something out quickly has turned into such a large-scale effort. but it’s still possible to scale back; the most important investment for me right now is the writing, and now i can safely say that investment has been made.

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this weekend was very nice despite spending my day working. friday night was another great d&d session, though there was somehow more splitting of the party even after the gang had ostensibly learned their lesson last week. we had a shit ton of pizza and wings and drinks and coffee, though, and it was a really fun evening. yesterday was a lazy day. there was one (or two?) nap(s), game playing (spider-man), and movie watching (neverending story). it was my first time watching the neverending story, and my general impression is that it is, in fact, a kids’ movie. but the visuals were excellent, and a lot of the acting was surprisingly good for that kind of film. my biggest disappointment was that we watched the original german version, meaning the sweet soundtrack by giorgio morodor was noticeably absent. so really what even was the point?

in other news, the world is burning down all around us, and these are surely the end times. it is sad and scary, and every day i hope this ongoing nightmare will come to an end.

i now feel physically exhausted from too much leftover pizza, and too much writing. i leave you with this funny picture of a pug looking at a cookie that has a quote about patience and makes reference to jesus for some reason.