Monumental

I have not put gas in the car in almost a week now...since last Saturday. I still have half a tank of gas.

Aaaaah, back to the good old days, instead of having to fill up every other day and drive over 500 miles per week.

Can you tell I like working close to home? :)

Totally Productive

I've been more productive in the past few days than I have in the past few months.

I hope that means I'm getting back into the swing of things.

Did a full and complete edit on Atonement before sending it off to the manager today. From cover to cover.

I worked on it until after 11:00 last night and was up at 4:30 again this morning, hacking away.

Cut TWELVE PAGES out of the freaking screenplay. Woo-hoo! I was on a roll.

Tightened it up. Cut out any dialogue I thought was unnecessary. Shortened a few scenes. Improved transitions.

In all, I'm quite pleased with the results.

It is now a lean, mean 108 pages, which is perfect considering there are quite a few action scenes and special effects (which will take up time) involved.

In addition to sending him the screenplay, I also got to send loglines to query two additional ideas.

The screenplay, he will definitely read, but I'm not sure whether it's something that will interest him or not. However, I feel that it's my best writing sample at this point, so that's what I sent.

For me, productivity breeds productivity.

I sat down at break this afternoon and plotted out some word counts for the rest of the year, lined up projects I want to work on and projects I want to edit. Hope to take a closer look at my notes this weekend.

I do have to work for three hours in the morning and will probably get some rest in the afternoon.

After that, I hope to find even more productivity!

Aaron Spelling Dies at 83

According to Variety, Aaron Spelling died today here in LA.

It's amazing how many successful TV shows he created.

Very sad that such a creative person is gone.