Thursday 1 March 2007

Rewriting the Rewrite

Scriptwriting is life in Slow-Motion. It's 'the long way round'.

(this is my current favourite title for my Autobiography, although 'Couldn't even get a Job writing Porno Movies' is still a front runner).

It takes a long time to learn your craft, then get better and better at it, perfecting it, well you never perfect it, but you get the idea. I aspire to be as good a scriptwriter as William Goldman ('Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' etc).

In short Scriptwriting is heroism-lite.

Over these last few weeks I have completed, re-edited, re-completed etc Two Ebooks (which now have artwork courtesy of a friend and will be ready to sell hothothot in a couple of weeks-you heard it here first, don't all rush at once).

I've also written Two NEW Treatments for Two NEW Feature Films. This week I have been a hero-lite and it excites me to really immerse myself in scriptwriting.

It makes me happy, because in the process of finding out there is a selfish brilliance that loses you in the moment of doing.

You get lost in it. That's special. How many things can you say that you truly lose yourself in and lose all track of time?

If you have such a thing, then that is a part of your true souls purpose, seek that which maketh you happy and you find what you are looking for, or something like that.