Good morning! We awake and out of bed and upright and we have coffee and we're gonna write a movie.
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End of Day 2
We're calling it a night. We didn't get as far as we'd planned on the draft -- we're halfway through Act One rather than Act Two, so we've got 12 pages instead of 50-odd. But what can you do? We're pleased with what we do have, and reasonably confident that the pace will pick up … Continue reading End of Day 2
Sluglined Treatment
Should anyone be curious, here's our treatment broken up with sluglines.... Off the Record Sluglined Treatment
Sluglines
Into the weeds, dear followers - We are now going through our outline to add sluglines before we dive into actually writing action and dialogue. This is a technique that I use, and I'm not sure where I pilfered it from, but it's great! I would super recommend it. Basically it turns the outline/treatment, which … Continue reading Sluglines
Dinner thoughts
Act Three!
A little behind schedule, but not too bad! Off to dinner, jumping back in at 8 instead of 7:30.... In blackness we hear the chugging of the train. We come back up on the two of them the following morning, huddled together for warmth. They wake up. They’re tired and freezing and hungry and desperately … Continue reading Act Three!
BREAKING NEWS!
Act Two!
And only 2 hours and 45 minutes behind schedule. We're still chugging along (both in plotting and in the plot, coincidentally). I am confident we can STILL hit the 6pm deadline for Act Three. They start walking to town, but get held up by a woman with a pistol. She introduces herself as “the famous … Continue reading Act Two!
Still no Act Two….
But a popcorn snack!
Behind…
So, we've reached our first missed deadline. We did NOT get through the second act by 2pm. We are chugging along, though, and should be through the film by the 6 o'clock mark, if we continue working hard. The tangle of the second act is really slow going though! Below is what we've gotten to … Continue reading Behind…
Movie in a Weekend 