Work and Play

Yo,

Today was a productive week. I wrote out my pitch on Wednesday so I had time to do fun things guilt free this week. Thursday I dragged one of my friends out to play tennis at Salford which was an adventure. It's a 45 min - an hour bus ride to get there (it's free to play there, which is why we were going, and we had already paid for week long bus passes). So we arrive and ask the receptionist where to go to play tennis (it was an organized sport from a flyer I was emailed). She gives us a blank look like she had never heard of tennis before. She looks at her fellow worker and that one realizes that we are wanting to go to the free multi-sport event. They point us to a big empty gym and we are told to wait there. Ok. We wait. My friend is all dressed up in work out clothes and she gets out tennis shoes she packed just to play in and we wait. And wait.

We go back to the desk to make sure they haven't forgotten us. Turns out the employee who is suppose to be running it just hasn't shown up for work that day and they hadn't worried about it until now because no one has been showing up for these free events. On the flyer it had said to just show up and make friends. I was really glad I had brought a friend because I would have looked really pathetic showing up to play tennis by myself >.< So we pack up our stuff and head outside, giving up on playing tennis. We are about to turn the corner of the building when one of the staff members run outside and flag us down. This one has access to the equipment and can supervise us (aw, we need supervision just like when we were little!) so we head back in to attempt to play tennis. She takes about 10 minutes to get it set up but we do eventually get to play tennis and we had a pretty good time. Neither of us were very good, but being at the same level made the game fun. I had been picturing a couple of tennis courts and people showing up who had some training, but it was just us in a big empty gym so it didn't matter how far we over shot.

After tennis I went home, took a nap, woke up, ate dinner, then headed out to meet my friends for ballet lessons. Now I have been told before that I look like I would be a good dancer, or that I have posture like a ballerina or other compliments implying that I'd be a good dancer. I've not done any dancing that requires this level of instruction before but I thought this would be my chance to see if I was secretly an undiscovered ballerina talent. Fear not, I have proven conclusively that I am not particularly gifted at ballet. I managed not to fall on my face at any point so I count that as good enough. The ballet was fun and good exercise but I don't think it's going to become an every week thing. Every now and again is probably fine.

Over the weekend I sat down and made myself work out some of the problems with my current dragon script. I feel like I have mentally gotten over the problems that were blocking me before so now I just have to sit down and write out the new scenes. I've made a start, but since the newest draft won't be due utnil the next Tuesday (the 12th) I've got some time to procrastinate yet. I also spent a lot of time baking this weekend. I made more peanut butter cookies, to take to the pastor of the church I'm attending who were nice enough to invite me lunch, and I made blondies for my roomates who are kind enough not to complain when I give all my baked goods away.

A writing update,
I forgot to give credit last time to my wonderful sister who was the inspiration for my new script pitch. It is thanks to her leaving FB that I was thinking about big brother and what it would take to go off grid and led me to deciding on planning my new little conspiracy theory story. In a few months this may go from to thanks to WHHhhhhhyyyyyyy, but in the end it will be worth it and hopefully I'll even enjoy it :D I'm loving it for now at least!

While working on the basic structure for this conspiracy theory movie, I'm still writing my dragon animation script. I am halfway through it. I'm rewriting the first half again, but will be finishing the latest rewrite soon and in the upcoming week I'm writing another thirty pages of it which will put me at about 3/4 through the script. I'm almost there.

As if school wasn't enough, I found out that BBC is accepting script submissions in a talent search. I can send them a script and the ones they like the BBC people will talk to the writers and start building a relationship with the ones they think have talent. The trick is they only open submission at certain times of the year (like now) and you have to be a UK resident to enter so this is something I have to take advantage of while I'm here. I'm really excited about this and I'm thinking I will dust off my Shikrah script (many of you will have read my pilot episode) and with all this new found knowledge I have gained from school I will tear up my pilot episode and rewrite the thing for BBC. They said it is possible if they love it they will send it on to the appropriate department to look over but it is highly unlikely they would buy whatever I send in. This is mostly just a talent search, but this is more opportunity than I have by not sending anything. So while working on my two movie scripts for school I'm also going to be revisiting this old tv show idea of mine. I'm going to be busy these next two weeks.

I didn't take any pictures this week, but this post is pretty full without any photos so I will wrap it up now. I've been talking to more British people and as I'm spell-checking my post I find myself reading it with a British accent which is pretty entertaing. Try it out and I'll talk to y'all again later!