April has been an interesting month. I began it with the best intentions of completing Scriptfrenzy but in the end I didn’t, or won’t by tomorrow night anyway. On three occasions I sat down to begin writing one of my short film scripts and three times I ended up writing a completely unrelated short story. [...]
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A Goal with an End in Sight
Posted in Scriptfrenzy, Word Count, Work In Progress, tagged current projects, Goals, no apologies, Scriptfrenzy, wordcount, writing on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mini-update
Posted in Current Progress, Scriptfrenzy, Word Count, tagged flash fiction, Goals, multitasking, novel, philosophy, script writing, Scriptfrenzy, today's progress, wordcount, writing on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been working on a full update of all of my creative goals but it’s actually a bit daunting to sort it all out. I have so many interests that at times I get bogged down and nothing gets done on any of them. So I’m going to use the goals update to really look [...]
Autotext. Now as Inspiration.
Posted in Scriptfrenzy on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today during a conversation with PiscesMuse I noticed my new phone’s autotext automatically capitalizes the word bacon like it is a god or a country, or possibly a day of the week. In honour of this stupendous idea I have written this short as a warm up for Scriptfrenzy. An empty stage save for a [...]
Taking Inspiration from Real Life
Posted in Scriptfrenzy, Work In Progress, tagged cheating, clumsy, falling, John Irving, literary truth, originality, paranoia, philosophy, phobia, stairs on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am terrified of falling down stairs. I would say I was phobic but as my fear springs from a totally rational source I am clearly right to fear stairs. The problem is that I tend to fall down them. Sometimes I trip over some dangling thing I failed to notice. Sometimes I slip on [...]
Shaking It Up
Posted in Current Progress, Goals, Scriptfrenzy, tagged blog format, book reviews, Goals, multitasking, script writing, Scriptfrenzy on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So far this blog has been primarily used for writing updates because I am working on my skills as a writer. Word count updates have proved a challenge to do in a way that’s interesting. So, though I will continue to do updates about my goals, progress and achievements as a writer, I will also [...]