The Problem with Drama

I don't think that my strong suit, as a writer, is being funny. Which kind of sucks because everyone loves to laugh. 

So I tried my hand a drama. Hahaha, apparently I'm a bit melodramatic. Typical woman! Zing! 

In all seriousness, drama's a tough cookie to sink your teeth into. I think it's scary to try and make it too real because "real is boring" or so we're told. But if it's too over the top... then people laugh for all the wrong reasons. That, and it's a downer to write. 

But! I'm done with the second draft! The notes just came in! Back to work! 

Should be asleep...

so this is going to be a quick post.

Avengers was awesome. I saw it with Dave and Steph-- it was a fun movie. Not the best movie ever, but a lot of fun, and I'd see it again just for the Hulk. The Hulk was my favorite part (for me, the best part) of the entire film.

Co-op is good. I managed to get a second draft done, which I'm very proud of. Cut over three quarters of stuff from the first draft because it was rubbish. I think it flows a lot better now. But we'll see. Now it's for the third draft... scary!

Journey into Mordor... or the second draft

It's very odd approaching a second draft. It's kind of like approaching a wild, possibly rabid animal. You don't want to make any sudden movements or else it might attack you-- but it also needs to get the fuck out of your  yard.

AKA... I'm tacking this second draft. It's bizarre, going back and just sighing and cutting and cutting away and replacing it with something new.

Man, I wish I was funny haha. It would make this script sooo much better.

It's Easter?

Apparently so.

I've been writing like crazy for the past two days because my parents landed yesterday. I'm on page 80, and prom is in progress. Kaufhold, if you're reading this, I am so sorry for the melodramatic shit-storm you'll be reading soon. I wrote this scene, and it was like one of Darren Aronofsky's meth commercials without the meth.

Buh. I don't know why anyone thinks I can be funny/write comedy. Comedy is fucking hard. It's way easier to make something dramatic/borderline realistic than make it funny.

SUMMARY: First world writer problems. I'll stop whining now. It's not really that bad, I'm just frustrated  :)

First day on the job...

and I'm making a blog post.

I've successfully moved into a house, Steph and I are sharing a room but it's pretty awesome. The metro is just a mile away, and it's a really easy walk. I listened to The Artist's score on the way to the subway. It was gorgeous.

Writing is tough. I had to figure out a different midpoint, and there are a lot of things to kind of keep in the back of my mind for the rewrite when the first draft is finished. Since there's a bit of down time at SyFy at the moment, I'm working on my script. I don't know if it's funny that if I were to take sadomasochism out of it-- it would be a perfectly fine teen romance and it would be easy to get done.

What the hell, I've never done anything easily.

Winding down

Writing has been a little sparse, mostly because I'm moving out to LA for five-ish months in... two days. So ah! Stressful times. Wish me luck.

Midpoint Madness

It really is hard-- because a part of me wants it to be perfect, and then my reasonable half is all "... first drafts are shitty, just get through it, get it down, so you've got some bare bones to work with."

Bah. But it's coming along, nicely as... whatever the hell you'd call Sadomasochism: A Love Story.

Well, it's back to writing while watching Bruce Willis grumble through Live Free or Die Hard. Haha.