Directing?

Hey, right now I'm taking a short break from polishing my screenplay. Over the past few months I killed 20 pages. A lot of writers say killing darlings is terrible -- but I rather enjoyed getting rid of the crap in my writing. It was exciting to see it improve. Like trimming off fat and scrapping it into a waste bin. I just sent it to be analyzed again and see where it needs improvement.

Last round, I killed about 4 characters to never come into fruition, deleted whole sequences (one's that have been there since the beginning), and added more on the Abinadi character. Apparently, I have an amazing antagonist and my critiques were wondering why I didn't integrate him more into the story. Simple: I was basing my antagonist after the best video games of all time, where the villain doesn't actually come till the end. You never see his face, until you must. Oh well. This is film -- not my mind.

I'm curious to see what the results are on it. I've become rather attached to Aryanna, and Daniel even though I only see his character arc for this project.

Anyway, I'm taking a break. Graduation is looming, Sydney's wedding is coming up, and I'm directing one of the student films, which is an interesting role. I hope that I can do it with humility and respect along with all the communication and technical applications that obviously must be there. I have a strong team so I hope we can carry this all through into completion. All I know is there is no better way to graduate from college than making your own student film that technically should be worth 25,000 dollars. Come on, would you rather do this or take some math exam? Yes, it's exciting. Difficult, I must attest to.

But more than worthwhile.

--Loving my breaks