This week is writing week, which I'm loving. Rules that are more like guidelines are most helpful and direction giving other than "write a story you want to film and pitch it". I don't know what I want to film in a 7 minute film. Now I may be able to pull something together, even if I am too hard on myself and hate it.
Story writing has been hard so far. Writer's block, unpracticed skills, medication, depression, deliberate emotional walls up, a combination of all of the above is making that aspect hard and frustrating. I also suck at conclusions and run-ons are my best writing skill. It's super challenging but I love it at the same time. I love stories so much.
One thing that I learned last week was about how you have to be vulnerable to write/tell stories. Argh. So hard to do and tear down well defended walls to be able to be that. It may have started and maybe that's why I got hysterical during the short film (which I'm not sure I can watch again without laughing hysterically). Once there's a crack it's trying to squeak out through this crack all at once and they leak out blended together. Hysterical laughing and crying over the unladylike sleeping woman made a crack. Perhaps 4 cups of tea back to back can also be blamed. Whether it is the tea or not is irrelevant really, but it's fodder for filmmaking so I just gotta let it flow. Now if I see a super sad movie tonight I will bawl like a baby. Oh darn, toilet cleaning and story writing so that won't happen. Ha ha.
Today my cat friend's tabby friend let me touch it. Yay, progress! Here's my cat friend to leave you with as I go write.
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