Any plotting I would have liked to get done last night was ruined by a headache. A lack of food and four shots of espresso will do that to a delicate flower like me. I self-medicated with an extra strenth Motrin and some ingested meats (pork, to be specific), and took to bed early.

I woke up feeling like a million bucks. That little nuisance called school stood between me and tackling Script Frenzy’s first day, but I didn’t let it get me down. I only need to average 3 pages a day to make this thing work. From here, anything is possible.

Here’s the first installment in the maelstrom:

Working Title: Living With Uriel
Genre: Comedy-drama
Today I learned: The word “limnology,” that my main character’s major is marine biology, how to format a screenplay.
Beers consumed in direct support of the scriptwriting process: 0
Coffees consumed in direct support of the scriptwriting process: 0
Pages: 4

The project is already turning out different than I anticipated. It’s more comedic, much more Juno than the semi-serious mainstream drama I conceived it as. That’s all right – the good thing about throwing yourself into a project very shortly after conceiving it is that you don’t have your preconceived notions set in stone, and you’re not emotionally attached to it yet. I’m willing to go with the flow. The risk, of course, is that I’ll end up with gibberish. But that’s okay. Surely I can allow myself but one toss-out script in life.

For the curious, my Script Frenzy username is Marzo.

[Music] The movie “Bugsy” (1991) on TV