Day 22: Finishing what you've begun

Today is day 22 and I start this day with only 31 pages.  My job took a turn for the crazy.  Insert me getting home after midnight on prep days and shooting overnight.  I started to lose sight of the characters.  When I came home from work to start on the script I felt like I was forcing things and got frustrated.  The main character just started to seem really wack and uber typical. It was time to put a halt to all of that.  On the shoot day of my current job, I ended up in a conversation with of my PAs who is a writer.  I started talking to him about the script and he gave me a gem of a pointer.  He said in addition to doing the character and plot breakdown what he'll do sometimes is cut out pictures of people or a person who looks like each of his main characters.  That way he can look at a board of them and see their eyes, what they would wear and that enables them to take on their own voices in his head.  Because a lot of the time all you hear is your own voice.  Super fresh, right?  Thanks, Marc ;)  The other great thing about our convo is that I had another opportunity to discuss my concept and work on making it more succinct.  I felt really good about how I relayed it to him.  T-t-totally winning.

Now that I'm back in the land of the living (i.e. more rested) I realize time is running out.  We've got less than a week left and I'm not at all where I thought I was going to be.  Things started out so well!  lol  Isn't that life, though?  Yesterday, I made a great effort at focusing and got out another couple pages.  I'm only up to 31 but at the same time...I'm up to 31 pages!!!  That's lightyears away from where I began.  No matter where I end up on June 30th (I'm still shooting for at least 60 pages), I'm still winning.

Sidebar: "Randomly" met my main character while out with my sisters and a friend Sunday.  The guy had the same name, job description and ethnic heritage.  I've never been to the place we went before in life.  Hadn't even heard of it until that day.  Yeah, I think I'm on the right track.  :)

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