Dog Day Afternoon
Have you ever been really close to the edge of something awesome only to find your brain couldn’t navigate its way around the finer points of it? That’s where I am tonight. I am so close to finishing Fox On The Run but in the time that’s still available to enter it, I don’t think I’m going to do it justice. Fear not though, I said to myself. You already have a completed script – why not dig that out and enter that instead. At least you won’t be cross at yourself for the rest of your life, and besides, this one has been edited to within an inch of its life.
So that’s what I did. I dug out Too Hot For Dogs (the screenplay version, not the comic book – they are very different animals) and I’ve spent hours on end making sure that it’s just “so”. I’ve always thought it was a really good script anyway, so I have no qualms at all about shipping her off to a potential new home. This turns out to be a great idea because as 2H4D gets shipped out tomorrow morning, I can turn my attention to The Case of the Dead Messenger and make that about as good as it can be. Then I can finish off Fox On The Run knowing I didn’t do it an injustice by rushing it in the wrong direction.
Thus from the jaws of death I have rescued the week. Oh, there are lots of things that have gone on in the last seven days that you will be mightily surprised at in the long-run but alas, I am sworn to secrecy. I think that’s one of the signs that you’re getting somewhere – when you’re not supposed to tell anybody what you’re doing. And that’s fine with me. A) it stops me from looking stupid, B) it sounds quite mysterious and C) I feel a whole lot better about not posting because I’ve been working on “very important things”... but we’ll see about that later.
A quick catch-up on some other things whilst this particular piece of paper has my attention. I have more books to read than I know what to do with as usual. Maybe I should stop looking for them but they keep mounting up – and in the most curious of places as well. The Passage is still captivating me. It’s so big and I have so little time this week that I’ve had to switch to the audio book version of it and listen to it in the car or in bed. On the music front this week, if anybody is looking out for something hot to listen to, the new Switchfoot album – Hello Hurricane - is damned good. Did I say that in a previous post? I may have...
Things accomplished in fiction: If I’m going to keep this up I’m going to have to stop talking about it in the bit before, but I did set two men in a graveyard with one telling the other to start digging. I’m not quite sure exactly what it is that they’re digging for though. It will come...
Things accomplished in real life: Made a list of a stack of people I needed to email this morning and actually got through the whole list by the end of the day. Miracle. That never happens. Also remembered to give Johnson a jolt about submitting his script as well. That’s one in the plus column for me I think.
Other: I might have to stop this “other” part. What exactly could it contain that doesn’t fall into the two categories above? I suppose I could write that I was so tired this evening that I actually sat down and watched Holby City for the first time in maybe 20 years. Do I really want to be admitting that sort of thing?
