Things the train window told me today: Je suis sale, Douai, 59, and je t'aime. If there'd been a "nettoie-moi" it would have been perfect.
Otherwise, it was a pretty good day anyway. The weather has been absolutely amazing the past couple days, sunny, no clouds, 75 degrees. Kevin keeps telling me it's not normal for this time of year but it seems normal to me. Then again, I'm coming from Arizona where it's sunny 340 days of the year.
I had another complete and un-simplified conversation with a French person - actually two: one with Kevin and one with Sebastien. You'd think after all this time that I'd do that all the time, but I really don't, and they're lovely days when I get to.
Maybe it was such a good day because I know the end is imminent which also makes me a little sad because I've finally gotten everything down and feel comfortable enough to talk to people on my own, and the kids like me, and I know what I'm teaching. And now it's all about to be over.
I've only got two more days of teaching left. Where did all the time go?! Beuf. I'm not ready for it to be over yet.
Side note: I wrote 26 pages for script frenzy yesterday so I'm up to 51 pages total. I'll try to write another 3-10 tonight if I can figure out what's going on in the episode... Then I need to finalize plans for the next month, like hostels and flights and stuff. Ugh. Not looking forward to packing or closing my bank account. What a chore that's going to be.
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
even at our swiftest speed, we could not break from the concrete
You may remember November (gosh, that seems so long ago now) when I was writing a novel. Well, needless to say, I haven't finished it yet. In fact, I haven't worked on it since December. At around 60k words, it is only 1/3 of the way done. Boo. It's going to take forever. But that was November. This is April! And April means Script Frenzy!
What is Script Frenzy (screnzy, for short), you ask? Well, it's basically NaNoWriMo in script form. You write a 100 page script in 30 days. It doesn't sound too hard, right? This is my fourth year which means that I have three other screenplays gathering dust on my hard drive, only one of which I think is actually worth anything. This year, though, I've decided to try something different: a TV show.
I've got the whole thing basically outlined for four seasons worth of shows. Of course, that's not helpful at all when I haven't even written the pilot episode. The pilot is what I'm currently working on for screnzy, the pilot and episode two since one episode is only around 40-50 pages.
The problem this year is that I only have two weeks as opposed to the normal 4 weeks. Since the France contract is ending on the 16th, I will be moving out of my apartment here and traveling for the last 3 weeks of my stay in Europe. Therefore, my time is limited. I may not win this year *gasp* - that would be a first. It's funny. I can write a 50k word novel in five days but I can't write a 100 page script in 2 weeks? Well, I can. I've done it before, but lately it's been harder. For some reason, writing scripts is like pulling teeth for me. It's just so much harder with all the dialogue and trying to make it snappy and interesting while still remembering that it has to convey a plot and my characters too.
In other news, I went to Amiens the other day and it's quite a pretty town, much to my surprise. I recommend eating at the potato restaurant by the cannal. Delicious.
What is Script Frenzy (screnzy, for short), you ask? Well, it's basically NaNoWriMo in script form. You write a 100 page script in 30 days. It doesn't sound too hard, right? This is my fourth year which means that I have three other screenplays gathering dust on my hard drive, only one of which I think is actually worth anything. This year, though, I've decided to try something different: a TV show.
I've got the whole thing basically outlined for four seasons worth of shows. Of course, that's not helpful at all when I haven't even written the pilot episode. The pilot is what I'm currently working on for screnzy, the pilot and episode two since one episode is only around 40-50 pages.
The problem this year is that I only have two weeks as opposed to the normal 4 weeks. Since the France contract is ending on the 16th, I will be moving out of my apartment here and traveling for the last 3 weeks of my stay in Europe. Therefore, my time is limited. I may not win this year *gasp* - that would be a first. It's funny. I can write a 50k word novel in five days but I can't write a 100 page script in 2 weeks? Well, I can. I've done it before, but lately it's been harder. For some reason, writing scripts is like pulling teeth for me. It's just so much harder with all the dialogue and trying to make it snappy and interesting while still remembering that it has to convey a plot and my characters too.
In other news, I went to Amiens the other day and it's quite a pretty town, much to my surprise. I recommend eating at the potato restaurant by the cannal. Delicious.
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