Script frenzy. A small victory, a small bust.

Well, I made 3 pages of progress into my script for Script Frenzy. I love the format, it's how I see stories in my head, like a movie... but, I'm so new to it that I still don't know everything I'm supposed to know to write a good script.
So, Script Frenzy year 1 is a learning time. I need to get a book that teaches all the different nuances of script writing and get it all learned over the next year.
Maybe I can do better for next year's script frenzy.
The other problem I've had is that there is so much for me to do, but because I'm so tired I'm not getting any of that other stuff done either. It's taking A LOT of energy just to maintain the chaos I have going on in my house and in my life... I'm working really hard to make a dent of order in it, and then being so tired from that that it all falls back into chaos again.
Of course, since I'm so busy and soooo tired and can't finish anything I start... I keep thinking about going back to school and getting a degree in Psychology.
Yeah, I'm crazy. Perhaps that's why I love Psychology so much? :)

artsy craftsy loneliness whine DON'T READ.

I need more friends who are ARTISTS and writers and musicians and creative.
Maybe I need more geeky/nerd friends. Those are rare and precious things.
I'm happy to have a couple of friends that I can "talk shop" with about Sensory Processing Disorder. THAT is a life saver.
I'm happy to have a couple of people around that I can talk to about Psychology, which I love!
I'm glad to have the few people around that are very creative that don't put me up on a pedestal for just being creative me.
Sometimes I think I'm just meant to walk through people's lives and not be attached. Give and take, live and learn and then move on. But, it makes me feel sad. I desire attachment. I'm jealous of people who have friends from grade school or middle school or high school or college and even mission friends. I wish I could know what it is about me that means that people pass through my life without needing to look back? Why don't I have the social skills to keep friends for long periods of time? I feel weird and broken.
Facebook and blogs have helped me a little bit. Makes it easier to "stay in touch"...but, do those people still really feel like my friends without the face to face contact?
I'm very tired and frustrated and sad, so I probably shouldn't be typing while feeling like that.
Just needed that out of my system.
SO I will stop.

Day Two of Script Frenzy

Day Two of Script Frenzy and a page and half in... that's not too bad for me. Maybe on Monday I can carve out a few hours and catch up. I should be 15 pages done by Monday. It took a really short time to type up one page of script. I like it. It's new and something to learn and get used to... but, I like it. It's how I see things in my head anyway. Just like a movie. :)

a new opportunity!

Thanks to trying at NaNoWriMo last year, I was told about a new contest (like NaNoWriMo) for April called ScriptFrenzy! I've been thinking of wanting to write a screenplay and look at what opportunity fell into my lap! So, I signed up!

When I was a teenager I stole a book off my mom's shelf of books and I read it and loved it, and kept it and reread it. Then the night before my wedding we visited a used book store and I found book number THREE?! I was so excited that there were more books! So, I researched and started collecting. Turns out there were 3 trilogies! Nine books for me to find and collect and read and love.
Sometimes I just think about the books and the story plays out in my mind like a movie... so why not write a screenplay for it!

First, maybe I'll write a fan letter to that author and tell her the story about her books and me. And then maybe I'll ask if I could try my hand at screenplay writing with her books.

The books are the Kings Blood Four series (3 sets of 3 books) by Sherri S. Tepper.

Yay!
(another thing to add to my list of really want to do...which is getting really really long.)

I found a crochet book at the library where I could make some amigurumi little zombies, ninjas, robots and even a Roman centurian and more! I think I might be crocheting more than writing this week.
: )

a new writer's group?

Today I had lunch with my son and his friends.
I'm writing books, the girl to my right was writing books, my son is writing a book and his friend to his left wants to be a writer too. I wonder if we could talk about writing books during lunchtime every Friday? We could have a little informal writer's group... that could be fun.


Yeah, I said bookS, plural. I have three distinct ideas all clamoring for my attention... and I can't take the same old same old every day, so being able to switch back and forth between the three ideas is appealing to my crazy brain. :)
I really want to write books for boys in the Middle Grade and maybe YA. We will see how it all turns out. Two of the three are definitely for Middle Grade... the third could be YA or even a sci-fi/fantasy.
I'm making sure to carry around a notebook at all times. Wish me luck!

Hey, I also had the thought of finding every single poem I've every written and get them gathered into one place. Three of them were published. One in college, one in a ward cookbook, and one in a local, self published mother's day book. I wonder how interesting it would be to see my life through the poems I wrote? AND the stories behind the poems. Another book idea! :)

rage fueled story

I was inspired yesterday and today to write a story. I wrote a story based on the parallel lives of my son and his best friend and their experiences with bullying.
Hey, maybe "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down" here in America after all.

It felt really good to write it.