Re:wind (long i)

Hello my 11 blog followers you! You make my day! ha! I realize no one reads this, and that's cool. It's my catharctic little journal and sometimes I write things that I don't really want anyone to read anyway. On the chance that someone does read it, I'm ok with that too because it's the only way to know if I really am a good writer and maybe someday will make a living off of what I love doing.

For the last 3 nights I've been waking up at 2:30 am and then falling back asleep sometime around 5 am, so I'm starting to use this as an opportunity to start the screenplay I've had in my mind for months. I've never written a screenplay before, and don't really have any formal training on that style of writing, but I'm hoping my undergrad days as a Creative Writing major will kick in and get me going. Plus there are so many online resources out there that I can refer to for assistance. I can't get into what it's about, since ideas are not copyrightable and I don't want my thousands (I mean, 11) followers to start stealing my ideas! Let's just say, it involves my crazy family (somewhat fictionalized) and a cruiseship.

Now that I've been out of the practice of law for a year, the writing has been flowing out of me. A lot of it is crap, but the great thing about scripts is that it's all dialogue, which is my strong suit. I've never been very good at the descriptive part of writing - the fluff, as I call it. I never even like reading it. I'm an impatient reader. I like to get to the action of the story and then see how it ends. Perhaps that's why Stephen King is one of my favorites, as is Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others like them. No fluff. All action and dialogue. And when it's boring, well, I often toss books aside too quickly when they could have been wonderful. Hmm...I'm kind of like that in relationships - cut to the chase - maybe I need to slow down and savor the beginning a little rather than trying to rush into things. It's hard when it's good! It's like a great book - you want to hurry up and see what happens! Or toss it aside too quickly because the start was so slow you couldn't get into it.

So back to this script I'm writing. I'm confident my ideas are solid, now I just have to execute. And then find an agent, and then a huge movie studio to buy the script and make the movie. No problem!!!! ha ha! I'm sure one of you 11 faithful followers of my blog have connections and I'll be commissioned to write my next script for the Cohen brothers.

Reminding myself to rewind myself and remember who I truly am. A writer. And a firework! (thank you Katy Perry - ha!)

Jaime, Writer Extroadinaire.