Still at 56

Tried to write with a headache today that wouldn't go away. Stopped when I realised I was probably just making the scene worse. It's a drag because I've been enjoying writing. Hopefully will be back on form tomorrow.

No time

to write today, sadly.

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Page 56 of the first half rewrite

Top quarter of page.

Wrote a new scene/beat that wasn't there before but I think it's just what's needed. Also rewrote a scene which now works better, works better because of the new scene before it, and is also less on the nose.

Ticking away.

Page 50 of the first half rewrite

Phew. Have just finished the major sequence I was changing. Now have a few other changes that have arisen, so will need to work through the rest of the script (which is now 75 pages long). Going quite well. My midpoint is now at page 64, which means that this draft probably isn't going to be as overlong as I thought. Though probably will push out a bit more from there as I work through.

Some strands are weaving together satisfyingly.

Can't think of anything else to say, really. Chugging along.

Page 47 of the first half rewrite

Bottom of the page, so almost three pages.

Not sure if the sequence I've just written is going to stay in there - but gotta try it out to see. It's all going okay. Every so often I think about how much more I'm going to have to do - not just in this draft, but in subsequent drafts...

That way madness lies.

It's the tightrope artist not looking down, the journey of a thousand miles beginning with the first step (and continuing with the other steps)...

Yes, I have been using metaphor in my script. Not terribly subtly (at least not in this draft), as you can see...

Page 45 of the first half rewrite

And I'm back. Wrote two new scenes today (just over three pages, to be precise). These are part of the new sequence I just thought of the last day I was writing. A change of tone that I think will be interesting, hopefully shake things up a bit. It feels like it's going to be a bit longwinded at this point, but hey, first draft!

Took a little while to get back into it and remember where I was up to (should've just looked back at this blog), but enjoyed it after the first hour of 'where the hell was I?'. Really wasn't in the mood to write earlier this morning, but hey, I said I'd be back today... and it turned out just getting back into it was all I needed to shake that reluctance.

My scenes are just on the right side of okay (and sometimes the wrong side), rather than great, but in a way I think maybe that's a good thing for the first draft. Means I'm not so attached to them, shouldn't be too hard to kill my darlings (as the saying goes). This sequence also will require quite a bit of research, which I haven't done. So I've decided to just guess at it for this draft. As I'm doing with other research that I'll need to do for other aspects of this script. At this stage it seems to me that it's best to do the research after the first draft when you know more precisely what you need to know. So you can ask more precise questions (and not be a timewaster).

Nice to be back.