Man…I was tiiiiirrreeedddd today. But I handled my shit, like a boss.
It was very, very close, to not happening. Getting this hour of writing done. I’m not going to lie, I thought I’d be throwing in the towel on day one. But I decided to be a boss, and do the boss-like thing of sucking it up, and just handling my shit.
🙂
I need a cold open. For this pilot. Like, for reals. I scrapped my first one, and I’ve come up with a new one, but it’s missing something.
I’ve always kind of worked this way: I need my openings to be nice and big, and to have some sort of connection with the end. I’ve always written that way, built my DJ sets that way (when I was doing that sort of thing)…I’m a thematic guy. I like that shit. Tie it together for me. Give me something that makes me go, ahhhh, that’s cool. I see what you did there.
Sure, it’s a gimmick at the end of the day, but at the *beginning* of the day, when I’m in the process of creating it, it’s crucial. It gives me focus, mood, energy…all of that unifying stuff that really gives a story an identity.
So, that’s what I realized tonight. I still need my cold open. I spent time, most of it, anyway, working on what I really NEED to be working on…which is creating my scene by scene, plot point by plot point outline. The frameworks of the characters are coming into focus. Their archetypes, anyway. The specifics I’ll have to figure out as I write them.
This shit is a lot of work, guys. Creating and entire world and full-blown characters out of a vacuum. I suppose that’s why I decide to dive into so many reference points. I thought of a couple more touchstones for my lead character tonight, so some more movie watching to do. I must say that I love it, though. All the background work.
But…it’s also time to move. Put pen to paper. I need to get my outline. I can add layers once I have a first draft written. So, yeah, I’m declaring here on the blog tonight that I need concrete outline work to be done. Keep the other tangents to a minimum, as much as possible, anyway.
I got all my editing work done today, too.
And I’m freaking tired. I was all day. But, I feel a weight off my shoulders right now in that I sat down and did what I said I was going to do: I got a full work day done AND my writing.
Fuck yes.
Goodnight 😉