Scriptin' Fancy-Like: Update!
Well I thought I'd have my treatment finished by now, but it isn't (though not for lack of trying). True, I've had such epic distractions as building a desk and China continuing to rediscover the problems of the Industrial Revolution on a grander scale...but I'd say I've spent a fair bit of time hacking away at this over the past while.
But anyways, I reached the end of the second act and I had to decide not if someone would die but by whose hand. This fork in the road would determine an awful lot about the arrangement of the third act, which was largely already written but in a grouping of pieces which have some room to be shuffled depending on which road I took.
I think part of the reason that I breezed throught he first act and took a somewhat leisurely stroll through the second was that I had no and then less continuity stacked behind me to worry about. Now entering the third act (though, really, it's more like the fourth act given how the story plays out) I have to not only make sure that there is a believable causality at play but it has to fit into the previous two acts. Also, I am trying to make sure that all this is built out of strong and engaging ideas?
It feels kind of like I am trying to arrange a long series of glass lenses, where each lense has a pattern painted across so as to paritally block light from going through. If I can just rotate all the lenses correctly to allow an unbroken length of light to enter at one end and exit at the other, then I'll have succeded and be able to move on to the script proper.
Meanwhile I've been taking refuge from wrestling with Content and fiddled about with Structure, specifically character descriptions to help me better visualize things and an experiment of mine. I've set aside a page in one notebook and titled it "...ends up...". Then I'll slap a characters name at the start of that sentence as well as their fate on the other end, repeating it as many times with one character as I feel inspired to do. It's helping and it isn't, since it does help me narrow down where the story can go but it also makes me feel like I'm building another kaleidoscope to align.
WELL
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The best thing about China is that they've skipped wussy diseases like consumption and gone right for syphilis and AIDS. Yeah, China! Do that Industrial Revolution HARD! Do it harder than we did! Also, no wine and women for the Chinese Olympic Commission!
dude, no more negative comments about China on your blog, okay? 'cause then I won't be able to access it. I already can't read Wiki...
Btw, I'm glad I'm a non-fiction writer. What do I want to write? Oh, what I'm thinking... okay, I can do that. But it in a logical, easily understandable structure for the reader. Okay, yeah, easy. None of these difficult questions you're struggling with.
I'd also like to point out that I can't access any of the links made in your post, either, 'cause we don't get the BBC. Yes! Living in a police stat rocks!
Wow, I hadn't thought of that. Okay Rob, you being able to read this is obviously more important to me, so I'll leave off for now. Besides, I reckon a lot of that stuff (and future events of it's kind) will make the news without my help!
But yeah, police-state eh? In a morbid way that makes me laugh since some people have made the obvious 1984 tie-in with London's extensive CCTV network. But I certainly would not call England a police state!
Anywho man, non-fiction certainly has it's own challenges. You know I've contacted not one, but two London film mags about contributing articles. From their calls for articles I thought they would give me topics and I would then go out and cover them!
But no, they wanted ME to provide the topics.
I have yet to reply to either...
I'd recommend trying to figure out what's what in the British film community. Certainly while you may not write articles about it, it wouldn't hurt to know about more about the playing field, if only to avoid utter flakes who can't get times right. I'd recommend doing some e-research first for pissheaded discussion groups, if only to find out what people are bitching about.
And I will also refrain from mentioning that Asian nation, like actors avoiding mentioning the name "Macbeth". Japan-bashing is still good, right? Nothing like calling all women "baby-machines" to underline gender division, eh?
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