Day triple-eight! Imma have to go back and look at day 777 now, and maybe even go crazy and look at day 666 and 555.
Triple-8. Crazy.
It turned out to be a fucking good day people. I dropped the Schnoops off to get his bumper fixed. I got all my straggling Netflix work done. I did writing hour! At the last minute, but I did it! And i’twas glorious! I also worked out…boom bitches!
Yaaassss.
I can feel the soreness already…but it won’t be too bad. I’m starting small. I’ll work my way up, slowly but Shirley.
In the writing tonight, I did these character sketches where I described each of them by their main strengths and weaknesses. I was almost crying like a baby by the time I finished doing them because I realized how much I loved these people I’d created…and I remembered that we all fall in love with PEOPLE in our favorite stories. It’s not the plot, or the setting, or the concept, or even the theme of the story…it’s the people in it. They are who really matter to us. It’s the most important thing to accomplish as a storyteller – make your audience fall in love with the characters. At least, that’s what happens to me with the stories I love.
So, that was awesome. I worked on the worksheets post-reading and notes. The idea is to walk through the story from beginning to end in broad-ish strokes and outline what the PERFECT version of the story is. It, I’m guessing, will serve as a compass guiding the rewrite process.
Anywho…it was also Opening Day today for baseball. The A’s lost, sadly, BUT…there is reason for optimism, at least when it comes to our bullpen and our batting order. Our starting rotation (and our defense) is a whole other story, unfortunately…but maybe they’ll be better than I’m afraid they will be. We. Shall. See. I have a gut feeling it’s going to be a long season. A long season of losing, in case you didn’t get what I was alluding to.
Jeezus. I must be really freaking tired. My eyes are drooping and it’s not even midnight. I think it’s time for the sleeps. It’s been a long few days. It’s time for some REST and relaxation, britches! Yeah…that’s britches instead of bitches. It happened. I’m keeping it. R&R except for taxes. Need to work on those. Hopefully can finished them all tomorrow. We’ll see how long it takes.
Night!