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Sunday Blitherings
Feb. 8th, 2009 09:30 pmWeekend, weekend, where did you go? Oh well, with Hubs still off, every day's like a holiday!
Trying to write an original short film script at the moment for a contest. Got really far with it yesterday then decided it needed a complete rewrite and have spent today ignoring it. I don't think I'll meet the deadline, do you? Oh well, I think it's a pretty good idea and I've got some nice dialogue in there already. If I don't enter the contest (or if I do and get nowhere) then at least I'll have it on standby for something else. The most annoying part of this is that the organisation I'm doing it for demand a writer's CV as part of your application. As hard as writing a well structured, original, engaging short film is, it's actually a greater work of fiction making my handful of original projects not look completely laughable :(
So yeah, I've been ignoring that today and putting my creative efforts instead into that very enjoyable hobby that will never count as Proper Writing to these Proper People - me fanfic! It doesn't help the case of my original work that the Rollercoaster bunnies are biting hard at the moment. I'm doing a Time's Arrow set story right now and have discovered that getting the lion's share of the ensemble cast together and settling them down for an evening in a cramped 19th Century Bedsit together creates a whole world of Hilarious Consequences. Seriously, they haven't actually done anything useful for several pages, it's been like a wonderful sandbox for me to have them just loiter around exchanging vaguely sarcastic witticisms with one another. Here, for example, is an excerpt of which I am particularly proud:
( from 'Baby Got Your Head Screwed On' Ch2 - talking cock... )Yeah. It's pretty much that, for about three pages at present :)
Oh, and I got more shiny, shiny banners from Tardos! ( Let me show u them! )
Trying to write an original short film script at the moment for a contest. Got really far with it yesterday then decided it needed a complete rewrite and have spent today ignoring it. I don't think I'll meet the deadline, do you? Oh well, I think it's a pretty good idea and I've got some nice dialogue in there already. If I don't enter the contest (or if I do and get nowhere) then at least I'll have it on standby for something else. The most annoying part of this is that the organisation I'm doing it for demand a writer's CV as part of your application. As hard as writing a well structured, original, engaging short film is, it's actually a greater work of fiction making my handful of original projects not look completely laughable :(
So yeah, I've been ignoring that today and putting my creative efforts instead into that very enjoyable hobby that will never count as Proper Writing to these Proper People - me fanfic! It doesn't help the case of my original work that the Rollercoaster bunnies are biting hard at the moment. I'm doing a Time's Arrow set story right now and have discovered that getting the lion's share of the ensemble cast together and settling them down for an evening in a cramped 19th Century Bedsit together creates a whole world of Hilarious Consequences. Seriously, they haven't actually done anything useful for several pages, it's been like a wonderful sandbox for me to have them just loiter around exchanging vaguely sarcastic witticisms with one another. Here, for example, is an excerpt of which I am particularly proud:
( from 'Baby Got Your Head Screwed On' Ch2 - talking cock... )Yeah. It's pretty much that, for about three pages at present :)
Oh, and I got more shiny, shiny banners from Tardos! ( Let me show u them! )
