100 pages. Just barely. I made it by the skin of my teeth, too. Thirteen minutes left to go. And now I have seven hours before I have to get up for school. Possibly more to report on tomorrow when I’ll actually be able to take the time to do so.
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78 pages. I have one more day to get twenty two pages. Unfortunately, I have school on Thursday. Thus, unlike last year, I don’t exactly have until 11:50 tomorrow night to finish. Oh, well. Maybe I’ll get it, and if I don’t I think I’m already further than last year (and the fourth act is not quite so rushed).
Anyways, I have an idea for a scene in the final act. Though it may slow it down, and might have to be moved to earlier on in the story, but that’s fine. And… I think that’s it for now. Wish me luck for tomorrow.
… I may just have to bring a notebook to jot things down during lunch.
I put the wrong day number on yesterday’s post. Oh well.
70 pages. Which means I’m right back at where I was a while ago at ten pages behind. But I’m also back to five pages a day to finish on time again (it had gotten over six for a while there). Oh, how I love dialog heavy scenes. They really pad a script. Or… you know… anything one might write.
I also start school on Monday, so hopefully that means I’ll get three days of extra time to write.
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64 pages. Seven days left. It’s looking like I might not make it, but I’m optimistic.
Also, movies.
Holy fuck. I knew that it was going to be bad, but I’m a brand loyalty kind of guy. I loved the Alien franchise, and I loved the Predator franchise. I loved the AvP games. And then some idiot got the idea to hand the franchise over to some talentless hacks to write the movies. It was a complete waste of money. Luckily, I used a free rental, so it cost me nothing.
I wasn’t sure how good this one was going to be, given that is was written and filmed in the space of a summer haiatus, not to mention it’s an independent Canadian movie. But wow. I don’t think I’ve laughed that hard in a long time. A few times, I literally laughed until I ran out of breath, then kept laughing. David Hewlett is awesome. I’ve still yet to listen to the commentary, but still. Very enjoyable. Unfortunately, Amazon.ca doesn’t sell it, but you can get it from Amazon.com. By the way, a quick synopsis, from the official site:
If you’ve never been good at anything in your life, why would murder be any different?
Patrick has always had a somewhat combative relationship with his little sister Marilyn. But when she brings home her new sci-fi-soap star fiancé Ryan, it’s all out war. When Patrick fails to drive a wedge between the happy couple, he reaches for sharper instruments. Every family has a few skeletons in the closet; A Dog’s Breakfast is the nightmarishly funny mess Patrick makes when he tries to add another to his.
A Dog’s Breakfast is a head smacking, bone breaking, fiancé bashing romp, with a family that just loves themselves to pieces.
Anyway, yes. That is all.
Sixty pages now. Ten pages behind. Now I need five pages a day to finish on time. Here’s hoping that I get to it when it comes down to crunch time.
Also, my head is kinda empty despite having watched a few new movies that I’ve wanted to throw up reviews for. Oh, well. Another time.
Two acts, ten days, and forty six pages left. That means I’m on page 56, by the way. Made my way into act 4, and my survivors who started at 11 have been killed off to 6.
And now, the aforementioned Bruce Campbell off-screen death scene from “Go On, Eat My Brain”, copyright 2008 Brad Renaud (you can also read it on my Script Frenzy Profile, here). (more…)
So I forgot to post a progress report yesterday. 47 pages yesterday, 52 (so far) today. That leaves me… about 11 pages behind now. However, I just have to write four and a third pages every day for the rest of the month to finish right on track. Or I can write more, which would be beneficial.
Anyway, finally just about finished act 3. It’s right on the precipice. And I also finally used the line from Red Dwarf that made me to name one of the characters Pete.
Also, a couple more songs added to the soundtrack. I’m pretty sure I left off with 1.21 Gigawatts, but I’ll just list them all just in case.
- The Cranberries – Zombie
- Odds – Eat My Brain
- Korn – A.D.I.D.A.S.
- Matthew Good – Saturday The 12th
- Alexisonfire – This Could Be Anywhere In The World
- BonTempo – Bespin, The Betrayal
- Jet Set Satellite – Best Way To Die
- Nine Inch Nails – The Warning
- From Autumn To Ashes – Autumns Monologue
- 1.21 Gigawatts – Canterbury Tales
- Armor For Sleep – Stay On The Ground
- Nine Inch Nails – The Warning [feat. Doudou N'diaye Rose]
Yes, I know I already had The Warning, but the beat and creepy piano at the beginning of the remix inspired me, so now I have a three minute montage resting in my head which is going to open act 4. Fun fun. Also, the band on last.fm 1.21 Gigawatts is not the band 1.21 Gigawatts that plays the song Canterbury Tales (among the others I have on my computer). Check out the vocalist’s site for music from his three bands (the man’s busy, no?).
Finally, thank you to Trent Reznor for breaking through my writer’s block by having released the (so far) last song on my soundtrack.
47 pages now. Still behind, but catching up. Only ten pages behind. Ticking clock has been introduced. And… that’s all.
43 pages, and way behind. I don’t know why, but I just slammed into a freaking wall. I know how to finish this act, I know how to start the next, and how to make my way through it to the end of that one. But I can’t manage to get any more than two pages at a time now, if that. Hell, I wrote nothing between Friday and Monday. Hopefully, I’ll work through it, though. I did last year, all on the last day, I just wish it would come early.
Also, soundtrack has grown by one. Song 10 is now 1.21 Gigawatts – Canterbury Tales.
Forty pages, and a new title for the progress reports. I knew I’d come up with something.
Two more songs added to the soundtrack, by the way:
- The Cranberries – Zombie
- Odds – Eat My Brain
- Korn – A.D.I.D.A.S.
- Matthew Good – Saturday The 12th
- Alexisonfire – This Could Be Anywhere In The World
- BonTempo – Bespin, The Betrayal
- Jet Set Satellite – Best Way To Die
- Nine Inch Nails – The Warning
- From Autumn To Ashes – Autumns Monologue
Aside from that, I’m actually really surprised by something on the last.fm NIN page. One of their newest songs, 1 Ghosts I, already has more listens than most of their other songs. Third place, despite the fact that the album was only released on Tuesday. Granted, if you preordered it on NIN.com, you were given a free digital version of both discs for download to listen to until you received the hard copy. But still, that’s pretty fucking fast for a song to get just under 5,000 listens when the number one song has just over 6,000.
