Blog Post Time!
So I had do deal with a lot of frustration today, which is a first, let me tell you. It was definitely frustrating because my writing tends to be 'angry/angsty' in nature, but in a sarcastic and not outright Fighting tone. So having to write a fight, and one that has ACTUALLY happened, multiple times because I never learn, was really.... I hate talking about fighting with my family, and the fight I wrote about ended up being very superficial almost because I am constantly fighting with my family over the same things. I don't want to talk about some of the things we fight about that maybe would have been for 'entertaining', but I'd be too embarrassed or scared to turn in.
I wanted to start banging my head against something whenever I'd feel as though I'd been getting even slightly offtrack. And I felt like I wasn't going fast enough. I would look at the clock on my laptop and cringe a little. Pounding things out when I felt like I wasn't saying things right was something that I found that I really need to work to get over. When I'm writing, I always want to say the exact right thing (and Luke, that's EXACTLY why I STILL haven't sent you my original script back yet! It's so hard to put my exact feelings to words that I am almost disappointed that I haven't been able to!) So I'll be working on that this week.
I hated but understood the one page script (we had to sum it up and that's important to be able to do in writing, but I love my descriptive nature no matter how boring it can be sometimes, it's part of my voice), found the three page to be probably the easiest, and the six page to be gruelingly long and pulled out in the end. Overall, it felt nice to turn my brain off at times, but thinking ended up biting me in the bum because trying to write in the voice of other people sometimes makes me stop and go 'Would they REALLY say that?' and gets nothing done.
1 comment:
Ah, perfectionism... the defensive weapon of the smart and fearful. As opposed to simply blowing things off, the defensive weapon of the no so smart and fearful!
I don't know what to tell you about that - you'll have that forever, you just need to learn to let things go by letting things go a lot so you get used to it.
As far as content goes - it's pretty hard to write something which would lead me to judge anyone harshly. I met your mom, I like your mom, and nothing will change my opinion of that. I like you, nothing will change that opinion. I'm here to teach, not to judge.
The 3 page script is the strongest, and this has been the case for most of you guys. But we will work this scene some other ways this week, which should help you in your writing a lot. AH! MORE FIGHTING NO!
Yes, a little bit more, but to a good point.
Luke
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