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So that last post really helped me get over my writer's block, and seven pages later, I am keeping on at a steady rate (or so it seems). I am realizing now, that apart from driving around in a limo with Izzy - Marjorie hasn't had any play out in Hollywood. Does she need to be a part of this? How should I put her back in the story? Or should I keep on ignoring her presence?

Ack. Let's go see if Izzy will get a part in the movie.

;)

Wining and dining...

Alright, so I feel stuck. I don't know what order to have things happen once she gets to Hollywood. The first things that happen. I'm considering writing later scenes and coming back to her arrival. The main thing is -- which makes more sense: for her to sign all the contracts and then be wined and dined or vice versa? Or does it even matter? I guess not. I can always re-arrange them later for the flow of the story. Would she even be wined and dined? She's not exactly a star yet...but I feel like there would be a sense of her "succeeding" before she realizes it's all a bubble to get her to sign the papers....

At this point I'm just rambling. Please stop me with suggestions. Let's get this Hollywood machine moving.

One crank of the camera at a time.

:-P

Ever onward...

Thinking about scenes/sketching them out at the minute. Debating how Izzy should be traveling to California - train, plane or automobile? Definitley not the latter.

I am now seeing that I have to have Robert and Izzy make up at some point or else we won't have their relationship last -- maybe Robert realizes that he has to love her anyway or else lose her completely? Maybe he should say something before she goes? Because once things are good - she'll just say "I told you so" and when things go bad, she won't want to talk to him, because he'll say "I told you so" back (not in so many words, obviously). Think, think, think.

Realizing that I really don't know too much about Hollywood in the 30s...much of what I know already is from watching films. Will be doing quick Google searches as I go, methinks.

Meh.

Hope y'all are getting on better than I.

Past week...

So I turned in my first act - though I think I might have made her decision-making process too abrupt. Ah, well. Next stop - mid-point. I am currently going through my notes to remind myself what exactly that is...and which is the best route to get there.

Onward!

Choices...

So, I've written about 6 pages in Word today -- translation, like 3 or 4 in Screenwriter. Can't wait to get to a computer with Screenwriter and see the notes from Matt. Alas, right now I am trying to work on it whilst I wonder if the first 15 pages need to be completely re-written. Ack!

Realizing that there really are innumerable ways to write a scene and that's it's just who your characters are that dictate which options make sense. I still think I need to be doing more character work.

In the pages I've written so far today, there seems to be a lot of tension between Robert and Izzy -- maybe because they were the argument scenes? Haha. But really, I am finding it difficult to write scenes that have subtextual meaning/importance for the story as a whole. Which is of course, the whole point.

:-P

Working away...

Hope the rest of the class is having tons o' fun.

Posting...

Last night I was discussing the scene in my story where Robert proposes to Izzy in Central Park late at night when the stars are out. I was asking for a general consensus as to whether or not they could actually see the stars in Manhattan in 1932. Everyone agreed that it would be believable. What was not so believable to them, however was them walking through Central Park at night, because it would be dark and dangerous (and potentially illegal). Oh well.

Right now, that seems to be the least of my worries. I am currently trying to implement the changes/insertions that I spoke about in my last post. And dreading when I'll have to put all of the story back into Screenwriter from Word. :-P

I think I mainly need to fill in these guys' backstories, and things will get better from there.

Enjoy the beautiful day! Go write in the sunshine!!

Progress report...

Wrapped principal photography on production workshop!

Now to dive back into the screenplay. Went over the opening I turned in on Friday and made notes about typos, plot holes, etc. I think I need to add in more actual scenes where we learn about Robert and Izzy as individuals which will establish their characters and inform their decisions later on. I think I need to lock this couple together so we want to see them together in the end, otherwise no one will want to keep watching.

I realized I brought something up about Marjorie's sister that was never addressed later on, so I should either put that storyline in completely or pull it. I think right now I may have unwittingly written quite close to the end of the first act without setting everything up first.

Right now I am really annoyed at the typo where I wrote "you're" not "your" as it should be. :-P