Script Blitz: April 13

Got home rather late last night, and felt too tired to do anything, but had a bowl of Cheerios and decided to just have at it. Decided not to return to the second half of the scene I was writing the previous night, because during the day I had had an idea for a different scene, and I heard that it was a good idea to write the part of the story that you are most excited about. Good advice. Wrote 2 and a half pages before I went to bed.

Some other good advice that I have learned works well for me is to "break the ice" with the blank page, so to speak. It is often hard to start writing, especially when you don't have any idea how the scene is going to transcend the mundane. But when this is the case, just force yourself to write a line. Just one line, could be dialogue, could be action, but what that does is then you start filling in what happens around that line, either before or after, and it becomes much easier to think in terms of action/reaction, etc. I have found that often I only stumble upon the cool thing in the scene once I have started to write it.

So that's what happened last night, I discovered a neat twist I could throw on the scene as I was writing it, and it turned out to be not half bad. Still. Must remember to start writing earlier so that I don't endanger my bedtime...