Will anyone care about this huge and annoyingly uninteresting diary? Such is the question of life itself I suppose.
Regardless, into the void I speak:
Been working on the screenplay directly for a while now and making progress. Just finished adding in all the changes to the first act and now starting the second act.
Two things are clear:
1) The first act is too long (over 40 pages -- yikes), but seems entertaining at least. More or less. Probably will be able to cut a few pages here or there. If I can get it 30, I'm golden. Unlikely I can get it there without sacrificing some important and/or fun stuff. We'll see.
In any event, that cutting will occur at the next rewrite, not this one.
2) The second act is a mess. Or at least it starts like a mess. In fact, it starts like it's retelling the set-up in a scene between Mary and Tix, where Mary explains his situation to her. As if we needed to know it all again. I decided to cut that scene entirely. The audience knows it. We can quickly assume that Mary has explained it all to Tix.
I suspect there will be a lot of scenes like this in the second act -- relatively unnecessary to core plot.
Remind me never to write a movie this way again: where I shoot scenes before I have nailed the pitch -- much less had a treatment or even a freaking screenplay. This is so backwards.
I have another great idea for a film (five word pitch), but I need to finish this draft before I even think about working on it seriously. That's the challenge: to not let the new flame draw energy from the spouse.
Okay void, that's it for now.
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