Yesterday I started writing 'The Gap'.
I wasn't expecting to. Well, I knew I was heading in that general direction, but I knew that I wanted to write a step-by-step outline for the project first, and knowing me that would have taken at least a month...
So I knew I wasn't ready. But then, all of a sudden, I was.
I picked up my pen, grabbed the back of an old script (which is what I use for scrap-paper), and worked my way through my first scene. (Not a good first scene, but it'll get better). And past that first scene I can feel a whole reservoir of words.
So, I've officially started writing 'The Gap'.
Thinking about it today, I've realised that starting to write my last script 'Run' was exactly the same. I don't see the actual writing coming.
I dawdle around the edge of the pool, afraid to dive in. And eventually there's a moment when I realise 'Hey, I could just leap in now'. So I dive in, swim around, and think 'There, that's not so bad'. And then I feel ashamed about the dawdling before taking the dive, and all that thinking work feels like procrastination...
So either I have to sneak up on the script or the script has to sneak up on me.
How about you? Does the writing take you by surprise?
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i get ambushed when dialogue or action i wrote earlier in a script because i felt like it turns out to be a skeleton in the closet or for whichever character, or a foreshadowing of why they will go back into the haunted house, or the first step towards a big denouement.
that be some scary subconscious shit, man. but exciting, too.
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