Pen: The Bully

Since I am in the writing phase right now, I am such a slave of the pen. Well, not really, its more like my laptop, but you know, figuratively its still the pen. I have to carry my laptop every where with me, because you never know when the urge to write shows up and then its like a two year old with his pee-pee time, you just have to go or else bad things could happen. This means, Im not a reliable friend or employee... or sleeper or eater or student. It's a little bit ridiculous how much this urge to write can control your life - it can make you really happy (Was I or was I not grinning like an idiot and dancing to myself when I figured out this one scene?) and it can get you DOWN (people around me see this happening a lot, mostly to their amusement).

I am currently living with Kiehl Christie, senior philosophy major at Ithaca, on South Aurora Street in Ithaca, NY. Its outside of campus and so I need to play house a little bit more often than I am used to. For example, you're writing till 3 in the morning when you had every intention of going to sleep early and suddenly you are maxed out, all ready to go to bed and you remember: Ding Dong! You did not do the dishes or clean the kitchen like you had promised earlier... and since Kiehl will wake up early in the morning, you cant leave it off until tomorrow either.. so BAM! you get up and go do that at like 4 in the morning at this ridiculous hour when all you want to do is sleep... but it has more advantages than disadvantages.. and I am sure if I wasn't living with Kiehl, I would be eating my own byproducts and sinking deeper into a trash dispopsal plant every day.

The script is all over the place right now. I just keep writing scenes in new documents and saving them to this folder but I dont really have a master document which has all the scenes, I think I need to now create that.. teh time for consolidation is upon me.. and then we can start re-arranging the scenes again. Which means, rewriting them, and re-doing all the transitions... doing pre-production on this film will be very interesting because I want to get the transitions right.

PS: Saw THE BEST OF YOUTH last night at Cornell Cinema: so amazing! The cinematography was really breathtaking in parts, even though the budget was telling in certain scenes - esp the riots where they had to work inside one confined space and of course, all the green screen car scenes - terrible!! But the story was riveting and the acting was especially good... Fantastic! Its a six hour film so the part two of it needs to be seen this Wednesday.. watching movies is the only time when I dont feel guilty about not writing, because sometimes I pick up tips on how to write better by watching a film... :) Sweet! Adios!