I’m up late, or early, perhaps, reading the script. I have a reading tomorrow afternoon at 2, and Alex wanted “feedback and ideas”, especially from me. It’s two thirty in the morning, I’m tired, I feel uninspired, and I have fuck all in the way of ideas and feedback, except for “your dialogue should be less expository”, and “maybe I could do something else instead of farting this guy in the face”. For some reason, I don’t think that’s what he’s looking for. I’ll have to reread this fucking thing one more time and try to pick out a few things that I want to suggest changes to, and ignore the rest, I think, it’s the only way I’m going to have something useful.

On a more positive note, yesterday night I wrote seven pages of notes/treatment for my other horror idea. It’s becoming quite substantial, and I feel like I’m starting to know the characters and the setting well. I also have the beginnings of a treatment, at least in terms of inciting incident, major turning points, etc. The ending is what’s most open at the moment, and I expect I’ll have to rework a lot of other stuff after the ending falls into place. But all in all, it’s looking good, I think.

Today in the afternoon I wrote three pages of notes and character study for my mexploitation screenplay. It feels good to get going with it again, and it feels like it’s going to work, too. In general, actually doing several pages of writing per day makes me feel immensely good. After weeks of thinking/procrastination, things are starting to flow.

Now, for another rereading.

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