Well, now that the first draft is written and printed, it's time to start the real work of revising it. Scott read it over the weekend, the first person to get the full glimpse, and he understood it, liked it, thinks it's going somewhere. Thanks, hubby!
I also posted my story map to my online writing class and got some good feedback on the overall structure. My major question going in to the revision is whether there is a way to better connect the medical marijuana/Eli storyline to the Huntington's/Sean/Declan storyline. Some way to cross-pollinate them.
I have six weeks to do this revision, and I think I will need every second of it -- a slow process that will involve more thinking, pondering, opening of my mind to new possibilities than writing per se.
Here we go!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Story map
Posted my story map to the "booth" today in my screenwriting class. I feel proud of it but also know it needs work. My fear is that I essentially have two different movies happening, a pot movie and a Huntington's movie, and they don't really cross-talk that much. I worry that we meet Sean and Declan too late in the game. But it was a very clarifying exercise, and it will be good to improve it since it is essentially my pitch.
Onward!
Onward!
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