Polish is done. Submitted to a my connections and the guys. Just waiting now.
In other news, my friend Mandi who I guess now works for a production company told me she was looking for a rom com pitch. I told her about my new story idea about a smooth college guy who gets all the girls who one day finds he can't get it up anymore and must go an adventure to discover what's 'wrong' with him. We'll see how that goes and if her boss likes the pitch.

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Took aderol today and got a lot done on the polish. Oh yea, i'm almost done polishing the script. Then give it to Brendon and Dave again for review. Hopefully not too many more things to fix.

I CAN SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

The missing piece

“A character's inner conflict is not just being in two minds about something, not just being torn between obvious incompatibles (“I want to be a priest, and yet I love her”) but is about being in a new situation where old attitudes and habits war with and hinder the need for change." (Mysteryman on film)

So this is what I've been struggling with over the last 2 years on freed men. This was what I had to try and crack with my character. And I finally realized that it relates back to the theme of control and power. Slavery ran on control and power. Twitchell wanted to help the slaves but still held onto his want to control them and be the one in power. Then he realizes he must give up this power to the slaves if he wants to succeed. This is represented by him voting for a black person to be the one in control in the culmination of the story.

That shit was hard to figure out, trust me. But I think I've finally got it. And that's what will make it sell.

"One part of ourselves may want to give those around us (children, spouses, friends) total freedom to pursue their happiness in their own ways, while another part fears losing control."

BAM

Women

Ahah! My first post via blackberry. Love 2010 technology. Assistant position interview next week. Let's hope I nail it. I'm beyond sick of working retail. Today pushed me to the brink in terms of my threshhold for how much I can take of my fake fucking manager. I'm so sick of women like this. Who do they think they are?? Case in point: I'm driving to work and this stuck up bitch in heels walks across the street in the middle of traffic NOT at a crosswalk. I rolled down my window and gave her an earful. Sorry bbut I just get sick of women who think theyr the shit while doing nothing useful for the world and think they can treat people however they want just cause they think they're hot.

Paul Schrader made me realize....

That metaphors come before the problem when you are adapting someone else's work or story into a script. Which applies to Freed Men. The metaphor of reconstruction came first, and I had to make a problem out of it. Which basically equals what happens in the story with twitchell in the middle of these two peoples warring with each other. LOVE paul schrader. man thinks exactly how i do when it comes to using your personal problems and issues you are dealing with in your own life and converting them into metaphors that you can use to write a script. GENUIS

Done

December 10th, 2009.

Freed Men is done. 129 pages.

I can breathe a new atmosphere. With a new earth beneath and a new sky above.

Rounding the bend

I'm rounding the final bend on Freed Men. 95 pages down on the third draft. Wooh! Last lap.
Me and the guys are than gonna prep it to go out to our initial connections (mostly there's). And hopefully I'll even score an agent in the process!
I've been patient for close to two years now, working on this baby, and honestly I'm pretty psyched about the possibilities.