Shernaz's mail
Oi!
Did you all get Shernaz's email about Carl not being able to make it in August, but the workshop still being on perhaps with other senior writers filling in?
So I guess it's BAD news, all caps, and a bit of good news, lower case.
As Ram said when I boo hooed about this to him: we'll all just chillax by the pool, maaan!
Hmmm...
Did you all get Shernaz's email about Carl not being able to make it in August, but the workshop still being on perhaps with other senior writers filling in?
So I guess it's BAD news, all caps, and a bit of good news, lower case.
As Ram said when I boo hooed about this to him: we'll all just chillax by the pool, maaan!
Hmmm...
posted by Anonymous at 11:02 am
5 Comments:
I didn't get the mail! But had heard informally that this might happen. What a pain. Did you get dates yet?
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no man no man ive been horribly misquoted!
i said - we'll EAT and then chillax by the pool maaan!
good idea this one from ram. then we will all send pool pics to carl!!!
anal reaction under 'god knows what else' category:
im a bit grumpy about suddenly goin totally blind. the 'first draft' so to speak - a somewhat loose definition - of crab is moments away for being done.
this is indicative of nothing other than the fact that i've tinkered with it so much that the words make no sense to me anymore and i can't tell what is happnin. so i figure i better give it a rest. the mad backflip structure seems to be holdin (thank fuck) but one never knows until you hit the floor.
initially it was all tactical headfuckingjudojujitsugymnastics right thru. and i got a little sick of these jagged one line batteries, and the scenes were just zippin by. plus the characters turned perdictabily violent and ruthlessly pursued objectives single mindedly. so i dumped all kinds of strange things onto the structure-including my distaste for kfc and generally tried to nudge in a few slightly sustained speeches here and there, that traded off some speed for power.
then i hated how these speeches were clunky and forced, when compared with the purity of the quick exchanges. so i thought about cutting them all out.
then i realised that i need to think of more complex reactions for these characters, and make the attacks less 70s dishum dishum-enter the dragon type and more john woo-wong kar wai type.
then i watched dark city and read the gita and generally felt better after discovering a motif that i have been exploring without realizing it.
then i thought id quickly finish off the two scenes pending easy re-write and keep minor tweaks for later. so now im sendin out a clunky first draft that's all dissonant and visceral. and needs loads of trimmin and loads of new body.
at some point i think i did stop thinking. and then it just hurt a lot. so i quickly finished the triple ouch scenes and i figure i do have a fairly strong emotional undercurrent to work with now. so its not all inheadwanking.
now i realise that i have a long long way to go b4 we get a fully formed turbo charged mutant crab from outer inner emotional spaces.
but hey... its a step. its been kinda fun in a tooth pullin kinda way. n theres much more to do.
and you know what... i would really like to EAT and then chillax by the pool maaan!
He he he he.
Apparently, I kept falling on my head as a child.
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