This is tedious......

I'm trying to correct all the grammar and puncutation mistakes of my screenplay. When I say or type "my screenplay" I feel like a douche. Please keep in mind that I don't feel like I'm the best thing since sliced bread because of what I've written. I don't think I'm the best and I feel like it's not the best. It's a first.
Anyway, I'm on page 16 of 100 pages of corrections. Gross. I don't want it to feel like homework because I set a deadline. I want to get this done.

By the way, Kevin Smith was amazing.....again.

Contests. Writing contests.

So, I've decided to put a rush on finishing my screenplay in order to enter at least two contests. I will also need to copyright them and entry fee money. I will also put a rush on my tax returns now and use that money for the contests. I don't have high hopes of winning, but it's just cool to do something like this. This means I probably won't reach a 120 pages, more like 105-110. I still have scenes I want add. One contest says 80 pages is an acceptable amount for a feature film, and most companies prefer short screenplays as they are more economical and will have more show times.
Most of the contest deadlines are write around the corner. Well, the late entry deadlines which means more money for the entry fee. But I'm going to try my hardest to finish this. It's important and personal to me. I think I can do it.

Controversial!!!

When I signed up for my Visual Culture class I was expecting an interesting easy 'A' class. Well, not so much on the easy part. A lot of terms are confusing and difficult for me to put into layman terms for my own personal notes. I earned a 'B' on the first paper, so I guess I do understand a bit.
Anywho, we cover topics that range from white supremacy to sexuality (homosexual and heterosexual). The topics sometimes make me a little uncomfortable. We look at different images and decipher what they actual mean and the impact they made on our culture among others.
The subject matter for today was Madonna. We read an essay that showed how she might possibly be a racist white supremacist. Yikes!! I'm still undecided. We focused on 80s and 90s Madonna. I think now she's adopted a little boy from Africa. Anyway she burned crosses in her Like a Prayer video, which people thought was against the church but it's also a very memorable/horrible statement made by the KKK. So which is it? There is other evidence but that was a big one. We even watched the video.
I just wanted to share my crazy class story for today.
Have a good night. Sleep tight.

Embarrassing Promise

As much as I would find this embarrassing, I want to put up a synopsis or query of my script. I need to get over this embarrassment, suck it up and put it out there! I want to finish it ASAP. After writing about it I felt inspired to write more and finish it. I think writing a synopsis will give me a little more inspiration.

Yep, I'm that person......

I wrote a script. Yep. Who doesn't want to write their own movie and win an Oscar for best original screenplay? Matt Damon and Ben Affleck did it. How hard can it be? Well, Damon did attend Harvard  and both already had agents, actual acting jobs and connections such as Kevin Smith who was famous at the time for Clerks and Chasing Amy....Sylvester Stallone won for Rocky, but he had already done porn (hahaha).
Anyway, I wrote about true events in my life. Focused around the time my friend Tami died, so it has some drama. It's funny too, with jokes people wouldn't believe I wrote. Not everything is true, but I had to make it more interesting.
I'm proud at the amount I've written. It's taken awhile to get this far. I'm at 100 pages. I believe the average script is 115-120 pages. So, only 20 more to go! Eric printed it out and it's so thick.
Now, I'm not expecting to be discovered, but how AMAZING would that be? I guess when I finish it, after many many drafts, and it looked professional, I would send it to an agent. I could also write a letter query to send out.
All in all, I just needed away to express the feelings I felt during a sad and difficult part of my life. Now, I want to finish it.
Here are some pictures of me holding my Oscar winning script! 

A new to do list:

Finish script!!!! (This may take awhile with school being hectic)

Workout

Mail tax forms (I think this was on the other list....oops)

Sign up for summer classes