Could it Be?

[queenoftheskies]

Friday is ALMOST here!

Hooray!

I'm praying for no overtime this weekend. We'll see what happens.

Things have been tough this week. Tough for the past couple of weeks, actually.

However, good things happen even in the midst of turmoil, and for those good things, I am extremely grateful.

Fist is that when I stepped on the scale this morning, I was down a couple more pounds. Now there's a definite possibility that I can attain the goal I'm hoping for by the end of the year. That would require a loss of an additional 15 pounds and I believe I'd hit the goal I'd set for myself at the beginning of the year.

Second was that I got my first set of professional notes on the screenplay that I'd completed in the story development and the screenplay classes I took over the summer and early fall.


I'd already gotten some really great, enthusiastic response from the teacher over the course of the class and had felt like I'd done some good work. I was particularly pleased with the story development and I thought the writing was coming along well, too.

Then the first 8 pages got ripped to less than shreds in a writing group and I was kinda left wondering why I even bothered with screenplays if I was such a sucktastic writer, you know? In fact, I was left wondering why I bothered with anything.

So, the notes really came at a time I needed them.

The note-giver, a professional screenwriter, said that my screenplay was very well-written. He loved my story. In fact, a couple of the scenes he pointed out that he specifically enjoyed were a couple of new ones I'd added in the rewrite that were special to me.

He had a couple of ideas for streamlining little bits and pieces of it, most of which I can really see.

He said he'd like to see the hint of romance between two of the characters. Maybe. Not sure yet. I can kinda see that, but I have to give it more thought. It wasn't a suggestion that I should do it. Just something he would like to see.

It was nice to see the thoughts that came from the read of the screenplay because it meant that he had connected with my characters and he particularly liked the emotional bits and said he'd really like to know more.

Not that you can explain everything in a movie, but the point is that he liked the characters and the story enough that he became involved and wondered about backstory and the like.

He didn't find anything that didn't work, but suggested maybe losing the last scene or two and ending on the emotional high that happened a couple scenes from the end. Which then led me to think of an addition that would make it an even bigger emotional high and I think it would be more satisfying to me and the reader both.

He also asked me a question about a section near the end that got the gears turning in my brain with what might be an even better scene than what I've got in place already.

I get to ask him a handful of questions, so I'm considering a couple of new possibilities and plot twists that I'm going to ask him about. It won't make huge changes in the story, but I think it will add some action (though there's plenty already) and I think it'll add even more emotional depth.

So, that's good.

I get a second set of professional notes in about three weeks. Looking forward to that, too.


Now I just have to get out of this emotional funk and try to ignore the bad things going on. Maybe a weekend with no work and a lot of rest will help.

Hope everyone has a GREAT day!