Hello internet! Sorry it kind of took me forever to update, but sometimes life sucks. I mean, it doesn't suck that bad, but sometimes I don't feel like being productive, and there's no use arguing with yourself when you don't feel like being productive.
As far as workouts have gone, I haven't done much, which chagrins me to admit. But again, if I haven't wanted to be productive, I've wanted to get up and move even less. I think it's the semester lag still catching me up, but I was expecting to be back to normal much faster. The gap there is probably what's making me anxious and frustrated with myself.
Writing has been going a little better; current count is 58,288. I'm kind of stuck in a boring place with the story at the moment, where Aura (my main character) just seems to keep talking to people and figuring things out and talking to more people and learning more things... it's kind of turned into this vicious cycle of TALKING which I try to avoid as often as possible. And maybe the talking will be useful later on, but for now I'm upset with myself for having too much talking and not enough doing, so I'm going to have to cut straight to some doing. UNFORTUNATELY, all the 'doing' seems to be getting attacked by others, which has happened several times in a row as well. So, I'm going to look up some posts about creativity, and write a drabble from my 'Writer's Block Busters' book, and hopefully get on firm ground again from there!
What's mostly been consuming my time lately is a project that's been blowing my mind. So far it's just in the data entry stages, but I've been looking up how many movies in history were made off of media that already existed (books/novels are most common, but comic books, short stories, plays, and even toys have been the basis for movies). The answer, so far, is A LOT OF MOVIES ARE DONE LIKE THIS, even movies I thought were originally sourced material.
This got me thinking whether I want any future books that I might write to be turned into a movie. I think I would need a LOT of creative control, to make sure the book and the movie were both true to my vision for them... and I would need to make sure it wasn't just a money-making thing. Because that's my thesis so far with this project that I've been doing -- Hollywood has figured out that people will pay a lot of money for something with the same name as something else that they love, even if it doesn't hold exactly true to the source material, and now they're exploiting the viewers. I feel exploited sometimes, especially when I went to see the first 'Hobbit'. I'm not going to see either of the next two, I don't think, because the storytelling in the book is better than what Peter Jackson is doing.
But, if all goes like I hope it will, I might get to present this project to a bunch of nerds sometime this summer (it's literally called Nerd Night) and see what other people think about it. And I think that would be really cool :)
Also, in July, I'm going to be a part of the Russian Exchange program that Duluth's CSS campus does. Every other summer, we send American students to Russia for a month, and they do the same on off-summers. So, since I'm in Duluth this summer, I'm going to be a TA and hang out with them and learn stuff and I'm just really excited to meet them and see what this is like!!! Also, we're going on a canoe trip. ICAN'TEVENTELLYOUHOWEXCITEDIAMABOUTTHIS, IHAVEN'TBEENCANOEINGINTHOUSANDSOFYEARSYESTHISWILLBEGREAT
So that's the score as it stands. Also, I've been going to bed between 2 and 3 in the morning, and waking up around noon (hence the title on this post). I hope to fix that tomorrow when I have to be awake at 9 to go to my parents' house and watch my dog while my mom goes shopping. He's still pretty healthy, but I can tell that the cancer is taking a toll on him, and it makes me sad to watch him die slowly. At least we're getting a good long chance to say goodbye -- and he's already outlived the prognosis that the vet gave my mom a month ago. I'll just be happier for him when he's not in pain anymore...
And on that decidedly cheerful note, I'm going to go look up things about creativity to remind myself that I'm not a complete moron all the time! Yeah :)
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