Paperback Writer

This has nothing to do with senior project or any sort of school work, but I feel a need to share two passages from books I am reading / just finished that I love.


This is from Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee which I am reading for my Post Colonial Literature II class:

"It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat."


And this is from Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman which I read for fun:

"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."


Over and out.

Savannah, Fare You Well

Almost done some stuff for my script - it's taken me longer to figure out what I want, and I'm still working on that, but once I get this done, I think it'll flow okay (knock on wood). Mostly, I'm excited that I think I can set some of my film in one of my favorite places in the world, the Florida Keys.

Enjoy a taste of paradise:


Sunset at Craig Key. You are looking at the Gulf. Twenty feet behind you is the Atlantic Ocean.



Sunset at Lor-e-Lei restaurant and bar in Islamorada.



Anne's Beach, taken hundreds of yards into the Atlantic Ocean. The water is barely up to your waist.

Grape Fruit Juicy Fruit

Okay, so the story's changing completely. Currently figuring out character and story line stuff for this movie, and then probably working on another one to figure out which one I feel most connected to and can finish in time. Oy.

Anyone else ever done an annotated bibliography? It's so lame. And pointless. Even my lit professor said so. So why are we doing stupid projects that are a waste of our time? Explain, please!

Midnight Rider

Working on my treatment / character bio stuff.

For anyone who hasn't heard the story, according to literature legend, Hemingway's friends once bet him that he couldn't write a story in six words. He wrote down, "For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn" and won the bet.

Basically, my story is about a guy in the early 70s who finds an old newspaper from 1925 that contains a want-ad that reads "For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn" and decides to find out the truth -- either the ad is a hoax, modeled after the Hemingway story, or it's a real ad, and there's more to the story than those six words.

My original idea had the guy in college, but I know I can't do that. So then maybe he's a journalist. But honestly, I hate stories about journalists. I really do. I mean, I love "All The President's Men," but that's based in truth and is historical. Otherwise, I find following a journalist incredibly boring, and then I feel like the story is more about whatever the journalist is researching and not the writer's journey. So right now, I'm trying to figure out how to make this guy and his search interesting and make it much more than just debunking Hemingway or whatever.

Grumble. It'll get resolved. Somehow.