Shamelessly stealing this thread idea from another forum, I thought I'd see if this would get any traction in here.

If you're working on anything, thinking about working on anything or just plain stuck, feel free to tell the world here. A good writing day, a bad writing day or working on a project some other ways? Maybe just let us know your page count for the day.

Basically, anything goes that you want to let the community know but isn't worth its own thread. Celebrate, commiserate, pour your heart out. This is the thread for it all.

I'll kick things off:

Had a peculiar writing day yesterday. Got just one page written of a short that I'm writing for production and realised that with 8 pages, it already has 16 sluglines.

I'm hoping to get more progress on it today, but progress is slow. Most of it features only a single character, so it's pretty action-heavy and makes it quite cumbersome to both write and read.

The good thing is that it's already greenlit for production based on the outline, so I don't have to make the actual script quite as "sexy" as I'd usually try to make it.

16 slugs. Talk about baiting. The only thing Jeff likes more than slugs is Jeager shots.

Sorry I don't have more to contribute at the moment, Henrik. I'm working on a feature rewrite. I finished it in August, received about 6 reads on it, and now I'm taking it on again. In this case, rewrite does not mean just polishing, but a whole new second act. I have everything pretty much outlined, except one critical scene. I know what I need to happen in that scene, I just need to get the details right, and I need the scene sequence to be a certain specific length. If I can break through that barrier today I'll be happy.

Nice idea. I wish I had something to contribute!

My biggest problem has always been getting started. When I am writing, I don't have much problem actually doing it. My OWC entry took me 50 minutes to write, for example. The September MoviePoet entry I did recently didn't even take that long!

I will call back when I have something to post, which I hope won't be too long.

Don't feel that your contribution level is in any way lacking. These are just the kinds of tidbits, thoughts and snapshots of creative moments this thread is for.

I have a tendency to think up titles and then spend time trying to find an idea that fits.

Sometimes I will have a great idea, but, unable to think of a title, I seem unable to write it and have to search around for one before I can start work. It's an odd psychological quirk, a bit like an actor who can't get a handle on a character until they have sorted out their shoes!

I often hear songs and think "That lyric would make a great title - now what would the story be?"

One song lyric I liked so much I have used it on three projects (all unproduced, so not a problem!).

My current favourite is "Dragonfly Out in the Sun" - but have no clear ideas to go with it.

Quoted from Pii I'll kick things off: Had a peculiar writing day yesterday. Got just one page written of a short that I'm writing for production and realised that with 8 pages, it already has 16 sluglines. I'm hoping to get more progress on it today, but progress is slow. Most of it features only a single character, so it's pretty action-heavy and makes it quite cumbersome to both write and read. The good thing is that it's already greenlit for production based on the outline, so I don't have to make the actual script quite as "sexy" as I'd usually try to make it.

Thanks for starting the thread. Is it action-heavy in the sense of car chases and whatnot or do you just mean not a lot of dialogue?

Sandra

Quoted from Sandra Elstree. Thanks for starting the thread. Is it action-heavy in the sense of car chases and whatnot or do you just mean not a lot of dialogue? Sandra

Could be the next Valhalla Rising.

There are approximately only 120 lines of dialog in the whole film.

Quoted from RayW Could be the next Valhalla Rising. There are approximately only 120 lines of dialog in the whole film.

That's not much, especially if it's a lot of, "Let's get outta here!"  

Sandra

Quoted from Sandra Elstree. That's not much, especially if it's a lot of, "Let's get outta here!"

That line's only in Valhalla Rising once, and it's said by the audience...

Quoted from Heretic That line's only in Valhalla Rising once, and it's said by the audience...

You guys are so smrt. I hope some rubs off on me.  

Sandra

Is that the "Undead" script for MP?

Did mine right at the start, and have been watching the total slowly grow. 24 at the moment, isn't it? Is that usual sort of number for MP (this is my first attempt there)?

Quite enjoyed writing mine. Knocked it off in 40 minutes. It worked with the theme quite nicely as the characters...

No, better not.

Look forward to reading the other entries, including, perhaps, yours Pia

I like the thread idea, by the way, Henrik.

I'm not writing as much as I'd like to be as I'm in school full-time and we're in post on Truth and pre-pro on a new feature -- although I am the writer on the new feature, so there's some work getting done there.

I've been slowly plodding along on a back-burner project called Bad Wizard (Bad Santa meets The Sorcerer's Apprentice), as well as (I think) the feature I want to direct after this upcoming one, a small-scale sci-fi flick called April which is about a guy travelling into the past to try to understand the circumstances of his mother's life that led her to commit suicide.  Both are coming in fits and starts; I don't like to write less than seven pages in a day so I usually write or rewrite ten or twenty over a couple days and then don't write at all for a time while I try to catch up on all the other stuff I shoulda been doing when I was writing.

Writing's a tricky thing to budget into the ol' schedule because once you start writing, there's no reason or motivation to stop before you experience total mental exhaustion...

Anyway, 's me, now.  Snapshot.

Quoted from Heretic I don't like to write less than seven pages in a day so I usually write or rewrite ten or twenty over a couple days and then don't write at all for a time while I try to catch up on all the other stuff I shoulda been doing when I was writing. Writing's a tricky thing to budget into the ol' schedule because once you start writing, there's no reason or motivation to stop before you experience total mental exhaustion... Anyway, 's me, now.  Snapshot.

It's the same way for me. When I'm on the tracks, I'm on the tracks and there's no de-railing. Then, I need to do a purposeful time away to assimilate and work in a variety of ways.

I can and have been in writing mode for into twelve hours and upwards, with crazy "half-attempts" to ground myself or pulls away to something else, but it's insanity. The best I find is to give myself complete respite at designated longer periods of time and then get back to business and pleasure, if I can because I need to do both at the same time.  

Right now I'm in the early stages of a new project that is character based and sparse. I know it's not a thriller, I know it's not a fantasy, I know it's not action or crime... This one reminds me of the mood in Love Story, (I think), but this isn't young love; it's old love. No title yet. Nothing. A completely blank slate. Who knows, maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and have something.  

I like to incorporate real feelings and events into my work as they happen and so I'm seizing the moments with this one as they come along.

Back and forth between writing and notes and cards. Lather, rinse, repeat...

Why is it that ideas always surface when I go to have a hot bath. (I'm troubled by overly thick blood and poor circulation; so sometimes this is the only help). But it's happened many times, when I physically leave the computer that there's some kind of breakthrough.

I'm enjoying reading through this thread. I like to hear what other people are working on and how they are rolling.

Sandra