Hola, All! :D

'Sup?

Sorry it's been a while, but there are 2 very good reasons for that:

1. It's mostly been more of the same in my life, and
2. I don't have Net access at my casa for the time being.

(Finances are a little tight right now, but I'm guessing you've got your own fiscal issues if you're reading this in the States, lol.) ;P

This weekend was quite remarkable: I played a lot of Tomb Raider 2, watched 6 hours of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (the movies Lucas re-edited from the episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) as well as a few hours of historical documentaries included as bonus features with the flicks, and I re-watched The Prestige and Jaws and Jaws 2 as well as the accompanying making-of documentary features for both, AND...

I also rewrote my outline for my current screenplay! :D

I did SOOOOOOO MUCH slouching, and I STILL got an impressive amount of serious work done, too!

No idea how. Not a clue. It just happened.

Oh, I started off last weekend by re-listening to the BBC Radio 1997 7-episode dramatization of Stephen King's Salem's Lot. I think that might have helped with the getting-writing-work-done thing. King always makes me feel like a slacker when it comes to writing because he's such an overachiever.

In his book On Writing he prescribes a writing regimen that, if I actually applied it, would probably result in my producing about 6 screenplays a year. (When I get going, I can write like a madman!)

And while that would be ideal, really, the most important part of the regimen is having a set time of day when I write... And this is something I haven't been able to accomplish since my first writing book suggested it to me back in 1992. :( I just can't find a chunk of time EVERY day that I can devote to writing.

I do, however, have success with a weekly page goal. That's how I did the Script Frenzy scripts the past 2 years. I break down how many pages in a week I need to finish in order to accomplish the monthly goal, and I usually end up starting late and finishing early.

So that's my regimen, I guess.

I'm tellin' ya, tho'... When I win the lottery (or sell a few screenplays and can quit my day job, whichever happens first) I'm creating a daily writing schedule! It's, like, a fantasy of mine since I was 21: A writing office (some place I can shut myself up in for 5-10 hours a day and ONLY think about the current story), one of those wrap-around desks that can comfortably house a computer AND a reference library, a laptop (for when I want to write at the park of at Starbuck's or something) and a set time of day -- every day -- when all I'm allowed to do is write!

I don't know why that's so exciting to me. Maybe I'm just a frickin' nerd or something. But the thought of a set time & space that is devoted SOLEY to writing just turns me on!

As it is, I feel sort of like a creative nomad. My office is a 1-gig jump drive, a plastic clipboard with loose-leaf notebook paper clipped to it and a handfull of good pens inside it and a plastic envelop of 3x5 cards.

That's it. That's my "office'.

From a creative standpoint, I'm a homelss person.

And a scavenger: I haven't had my OWN computer in a couple of years now! My computer broke down just a few weeks after Gnomey and I hooked up, which is right at the 2-year mark. So I use whatever computer is available to me when I have the time to do some work.

Actually... I guess that's a little romantic, in a Jack-Kerouac/Henry-David-Thoreau kind of I'll-create-my-art-anywhere-and-any-time sort of way. :)

But I still want the office, desk, laptop and set writing time.

Blah.

Okay, I'm psychic! Wanna see? I know what you're thinking right now!

"If you were just gonna go on and on about wanting an office to write in, you really didn't need to even bother making an entry this week."

I'm close, right? ;P

My Gnomey's such an angle, though! The 3 days I'm off work I don't have access to the Net, right? So when I come back to work and check my mail, who do you think has an email waiting for me? (# guesses, and the first 2 don't count.)

What a hotty! Not just super-cool & loveable & desireable, but so considerate, too!!!

Okay, I'm writing this at work, natch, and it's been a few minutes since I even looked like I was doing some actual work. So I should probably sign off for now.

Before I go, if you're not checking out the site for the new Star Trek flick, you TOTALLY SHOULD!!! Check out who's playing Spock and Scotty in particular!!! :D GENIUS!

Also, if it's been a while since you visited Homestar Runner.com, there's no time like the present to get reaquainted! Brian & I have been watching the dvds a lot recently, and Homestar just never gets old! :D

Hope you have a super-groovy Labor Day weekend!!! :D