Monday, August 05, 2002

For well over a year, I've struggled to finish a screenplay idea called Emergence. I made some real progress during this year's Cabo trip, but lost momentum (again) upon returning to reality. The problem is a strange one - the idea is just too big, too rich for me to fit everything into script format. Getting all the ideas I have for the story told in just pictures and dialogue in 110 pages doesn't seem possible. Or perhaps I'm just not a strong enough scriptwriter, but that's another story... Every week I look at it, make some half-hearted notes, and despair of putting it down on paper. The right thing to do is to jump in and restart the story as a novel, wherein I can be as verbose as I like. But that's an intimidating leap. But I've got to make it. 7:46:16 AM

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