me geeked out long-time
It’s Easter morning here in Burnaby. Trying out the geotagging feature in WordPress for iPhone. Not quite sure yet how to display the information or a link to it but I’ll figure it out.
Rolled out of bed, did our usual tune in with the Universe exercises as the cats wrestled and ran through the house. Kind of distracting. It’s difficult to meditate when cats are bashing into you every few minutes. They’re cute though so they can stay.
Breakfast has been eaten. All fueled up for the next part of the day — morning pages and mote bashing away at my screenplay for Script Frenzy.
After that comes Langley, relatives & ham. It seems the only parts of holidays we participate in anymore are the eating rituals. Oh well…
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Script Frenzy 2010 is under way and I’ve started working on my script Concussion. I banged off 6 of the 100 pages in just over two hours. So if you figure about 3.3 pages per day to get me passed the finish line by April 30 I am already ahead of the game. Buffers are a good thing, but I won’t be happy until I’m finished. I do tend to be a fast starter though, but I am hoping I can keep this pace up — One word at a time.
I have some assistance though…
I got a new copy of Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ in the mail today. I seem to have misplaced my last copy and have a feeling it went to charity with a few hundred other books. Also, Carol Browne left a prosperity Buddha on my desk. These things should help. As does Quiet Riot’s – Bang Your Head (Metal Health), part of the inspiration for my script:
I love watching progress bars move.
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I’ve decided to participate in this year’s Script Frenzy. I considered it last year, even signed up for the site but did not follow through. Why? I’m not entirely sure. I have a funny feeling that obsessive World of Warcraft playing fed by a heaping helping of self doubt and fear had a big part in it. My WoW account has long since been cancelled and I am doing a lot of work to overcome those other difficulties so perhaps this year I might just make it.
According to the web site Script Frenzy challenges creative writers to “write 100 pages of original scripted material in the 30 days of April. (Screenplays, stage plays, TV shows, short films, and graphic novels are all welcome.)” It costs nothing to participate and there are no huge prizes other than “Happiness. Creative juices. Pride. Laughter. Bragging rights. A brand-new script.”
Why not? I very much enjoyed participating in Movember by growing a ridiculous looking moustache and rounding up donations to a good cause. I met a lot of cool people doing that. This could be a similar experience.
There’s not a lot of pressure to participate other than that you put on yourself. That I like. I haven’t paid for anything and I’m doing what I’m doing for fun and for free.
After you sign up for the site you are asked to fill out some information about your potential screenplay and yourself. You can choose a home region to connect with other writers who are participating near you. Here’s a link to my Script Frenzy profile. Why don’t you sign up too so we can laugh at each other’s horrific screenplays? OK, maybe they’ll be awesome. Does it really matter? Not really.
My screenplay, taken from an idea I had last year, is called Concussion. It’s about “a slacker is given a gift that could do the world a lot of good; knowledge of the afterlife & the ability to communicate with the dead. He uses it selfishly and things backfire on him” — sort of The Sixth Sense meets Slackers.
To write I am using a free piece of screenwriting software called Celtx. It’s pretty robust and does pretty much everything you expect from the other expensive screenwriting packages like Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter. I did pay a whopping $9.95 USD (plus 5% GST) for the Writers Pack add-on for Celtx. I wanted the distraction reducing Full Screen Mode as well as the Advanced Session Timer that not only keeps track of my progress but allows me to tweet it using a built in #scriptfrenzy hashtag. I’m not sure I will use the Plot View but I got it just in case. I’ll buy the Art Packs later when I actually shoot one of these screenplays of mine.
I’ve also installed a cool widget on the sidebar of this site to track my progress throughout the month. Also, if I’m not completely spent after writing for practice, work and this project I plan on tossing up a few blog posts about my experience.
This could be fun. I’m already working on my outline using the late Blake Snyder’s beat sheet from the Save the Cat tools page. I can’t wait to see how this story turns out.
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Yesterday a team of us from DOXA Documentary Film Festival headed down to Creekside Park to see day one of taping for the Colbert Show in Vancouver. We were hoping we would be able to get a camera package for our upcoming EXPOSED! Celebrity Camera Auction fundraiser to Stephen Colbert. We passed our package off to an AD and hopefully Mr. Colbert will get the package and agree to participate.
I took Carol’s camera and got a ton of great shots from my vantage point back stage and running around through the crowd snapping away.
We weren’t the only ones to show up. There are estimates that over 5000 people were in attendance and the patriots were out in force.
The place went nuts when Stephen Colbert arrived and he did not disappoint. I was especially impressed with his improv. He is more charismatic in person than I thought he would be.
Oh look, Colbert must have seen me in the crowd as he waved right at me. He was actually counting down from five, but hey, a guy can dream can’t he?
Here’s a slide show of the best shots I snagged of Stephen Colbert, his guest Michael Bublé and eTalk Canada’s Ben Mulroney, as well as a few other lucky shots from a great day.
Many thanks to Carol Browne for letting her camera out of her sight for the day and to Miss604 for posting a couple of my photos .
Showing appreciation is nice. “And that’s the word”.
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I had a few disappointing moments yesterday. Patrick felt some compassion for my plight and brought me a gift to cheer me up.
It’s Cowboy Curtis of Peewee’s Playhouse as played by the great Laurence Fishburne who was in a straight to DVD film I worked on last year called Tortured – I’ve seen Tortured so you don’t have to. Believe me.
Patrick picked up the figure along with a zombie card game, also for me, and a Lando Calrissian Mighty Mugg, “made from %100 recycled awesome”, for himself.
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I didn’t get a loot card and am very disappointed. The btard got one that cooks up goblin gumbo and makes you belch loudly spewing out green gas.
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