Halb Mensch. Halb Ding.
Script Frenzy is over, and I didn’t write the 100 pages. I made it to 38 pages on the 13th, then looked at what I had, and spent a day or two thinking about what to do. On the one hand, continuing was very much possible, and the 100 pages were within reach. On the other, my antagonist was by far the most interesting person in the story, quite contrary to my protagonist, who was somewhat passive in the whole thing…
By now, that’s almost habitual for me…
April 15th, and Script Frenzy is half empty. Me, I like to think of it as: “ARGH! Two Weeks!? Twooo Weeeeks!?”
Now, first off, let me just correct a common mistake made by quite a few people I know. I didn’t quit Script Frenzy, I quit Cheap Cyborg, and in its place, I’m writing… a drama… comedy… I don’t know.
A script.
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you the Script Frenzy Report Card Excel file. We hope it works in Numbers. We now return you to your scheduled broadcast.
I chickened out.
It’s three days to Fade In and I dang-diddly chickened out.
I admit it. I’m not ready to wrangle Cheap Cyborg. Shit, I’m not even sure I can write a 100 pages of anything in a month, let alone an ambitious, if messy and unfocused science fiction epic…
Especially a messy and unfocused science fiction epic.
And just as everything was going so well.
I needed these last 10 days of vacation like Superman needs the sun. You know, that part of life that isn’t work? The part that is relegated to the few hours of your day between waking and leaving for work and coming home and going to sleep?
That’s what we’ve been doing, and it’s been heavenly. Lounging, reading, watching, browsing, shopping, roleplaying, coding, loving and Thinking.
Like putting the brain into sleep mode (with, in the back of your head, the knowledge that it will inevitably be awakened brutally tomorrow morning when Rikke’s cell, with some glee I think, brings us back into worker-ant-mode).
Any of you, my dear readers, considering participation in Script Frenzy (churn out a script in 30 days flat, warts and all)?
I’m considering it, but I’m afraid I’ll be way too busy with work to get into it properly.