...Coming out of a relationship with my first two scripts ("Catch 22"-action, "Affiliated"-drama), I've learned a lot from my mistakes made during the time I spent bonding in their company. As good as they have made me feel, I must move on to a new story ("Beyond The Woods"-horror) that has become the muse of my mind. Oh the curse of a writer:'( It is with love that I step away from them, but only to return a better lover to treat them as they deserve.
My new love...We met not too long ago. She was beautiful (even with the gore she seduced me with). If you could only see her, she'd have you in her grasp in an instant. Over the past week, we talked and got to know each other better, bonding, growing. We've since decided to move our relationship to the next level. Tonight is our date (I'm surprisingly calm and ready to enjoy the night).
I sit at my table. Turn down the lights. Place on my headphones. The room is buzzing with silence. I press play on one of my favourite songs Queens Of The Stone Age "In My Head". The melody penetrates my ear, escorting my date to the venue. She's bloody, but elegant; the way she wears hanging flesh just...ooooh! (quivers). I smile. She smiles. I begin clattering away at my keyboard, communicating, stroking her just right picking her apart and putting her back together. Past lessons learned by those before her are not without merit, for I craft her much easier, with more brilliance and fluency. I've become a better man, a better writer.
I'm going to spend the next 2 weeks or so delving into her, dissecting her, plastering her onto these pages in totality ^_^
This brings the question I pose to you :)...Do you have a particular setting when you sit to write? The beach, nature, after a couple glasses of wine? What's your environment when writing?
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You must be a woman because men get it in whenever possible and just hammer away.
Bad joke.
No, I have to get in the right frame of mind to write - as does anyone - but your seedy headline invites all kinds of seedy quips.
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I find it's more like being a really creepy stalker!
You lie in wait for months, watching and waiting until you know everything about them. If you go in too soon you could scare them off and expose yourself with no way back, and then waste time making excuses, trying to explain what you meant.
Only when you know their routine and every thought do you make your move, sweeping them off their feet. Sure, you have some rocky patches but you did your research so you can fix it up so they never even know. You are the puppet God, every time they feel comfortable you rip it all down and leave them with nothing, knowing you are their only chance of redemption or recovery... unless it's more fun not to be.
Then all too soon, when it's the best it can be, it ends...
You're left thinking how you could do have done things differently, editing the memory, retracing your steps, revising conversations, rearranging the furniture.
Then, when you're better prepared for your next victim, you strike again, they'll only know you're not a monster if you get everything right.
Or is that just me... and Joe Goldberg...?
- To answer the question: In the lounge, before anyone else wakes up with the story's playlist keeping my head in the space, hoping I have time to finish the sequence before I hear anyone wake up, and mortal life resumes.
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Screenplays are like relationships. You get to the end and your dissatisfied. You read through with inevitable disappointment, so you redraft, try again and inevitably the same thing happens. You try to improve yourself and write better, until maybe you reach a place where you can say " that'll do pig "
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Well done (slow clap) Karen Stark I COULD have been succinct about it, but I need the practice...
Just to clarify I've fully presumed, as Northerners that are aware of each other's existence, we've jumped straight into playfully barbed exchanges.
I just realised it probably looks a bit aggressive to the otherwise originated...
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haha of course! shame on you for even questioning your barbed northern ways! and you right practice makes perfect so...
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I like the upstairs room with the window view of the quiet neighborhood. I listen to jazz, classical or the singer/songwriter channel on Accuradio. I love 'em, leave 'em and come back to them several times over the years.
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Feeling a little the same in those days Imo. Have three loves to care for. Jumping from one story idea to another. The effect is truly inspirational and pushes the creativity to a maximum. Smile.
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Imo, best analogy ever lol!
hahaha C. D-Broughton It has thus served it's purpose.
Jamie Sadler I'm good to my loves, I find if I treat them accordingly, they'll open themselves up willingly, and then we can learn each other and act as one unit. It works better for me that way in developing our relationship, that inevitably will have to part at sometime :(
I'm too much a gentleman to rip them to shreds. But, some like to be roughed up a bit, so where I can't suffice, you shall have your fill :)
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Karen Stark Oh the worst is being disappointed in who they are after spending so much time together :( But, for those that were less than satisfactory lovers, I shall return one day and make good of relationship yet!
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Oh Phillip E. Hardy, "The Pro From Dover" You're what writers aspire to be. It takes experience to be able to juggle back and forth over years without letting the emotion tear you apart.
Your setting for writing sounds quite peaceful. Sure to have some creativity pumping onto those pages.
Ah Erin Mazzei very technical and precise methodology. What better way to connect purely to your mind and it's thoughts, than in the dead of silence.
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Hi Evelyn Von Warnitz A fellow lover that understands my bond with my loves. Be careful, I've learned the hard way, some can get pretty jealous that they're not getting as much time as another :/ Don't break any of their hearts ;) Let the creativity shower upon each of their pages ^_^
:D why thank you Hayward Crawford
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Hahaha! Imo Wimana Chadband. There is definitely something about in your sentences.
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Evelyn Von Warnitz ;) haha! Aren't we just the worst playing with these hearts like we do. Just imagine how the plot will thicken as we continue filling these pages and birthing new relationships, damn! lol My mother will be so disappointed in the gentleman she thought she raised hahaha.
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Hahaha Dan Guardino aw mayne. It's like that sometimes. But your scripts have made it to points where some of us only aim for ours to reach, so you've got to be doing something right in those screw ups. Maybe it's because it adds some spice to the intimacy.