shut up, shut your mouth, can't you hear you talk too loud?

wednesday is the day i sleep in. it is the day i make up for any sleep i have missed throughout the rest of the week when i have more important things to do than lie in bed until nine. but today, people, i was robbed of my extra two hours of sleep. the obnoxious people working next door were being so loud, yelling and smashing everything around like they were on the set of stomp, that i doubt they could have been louder if they tried. not to say i think they werent, trying that is. anyways i couldnt ignore them any more so i dragged myself out of bed and through my normal morning routine. now, i am awake. and they are silent. jerks.

anyway, don't you hate when you have something to write about, but you put it off because of stupid things like responsibilities and then by the time you have time to write about them, you are completely over the fact. everything you write then comes out stale, and you're left wondering if you had just written it out when it first popped into your head, would it have been the most amazing thing in the world?? did you just miss out on your chance of winning the pulitzer because you did what you were supposed to do instead??

moving on. seeing as it's april 21, it's kinda late to be lamenting this, but can i just say i'm really bummed that i didnt do script frenzy this year? (i dont think i've ever used the word bummed before. that was weird.) i was pretty excited about it. i even had a sorta maybe if nothing else comes to mind idea to write about. (i was thinking of maybe expanding this short story.) but when april rolled around, i realized that with everything else going on, in order to write a script i would have to give up something. school wasnt an option for once since i left a semester's worth of papers to the last couple of weeks. family wasnt an option because, well, they never really are. i probably wouldve cut time out of hanging out with my cousin, and i felt bad about that. especially since out of all my sisters i'm the one with her the most (one doesnt live with us and the other is at school all day). so i figured i could save finding my latent script writing skills to next year. i was planning on telling you people to try it out, but i forgot. or my subconscious mind was being a brat at the time and didnt want anyone else doing it if i couldnt. but i think it was just cause i forgot.

*Jerk it Out - Caesars

i am not afraid to try it

have you ever had your mind make a decision before you?? like it makes up its mind while you're still pretending to deliberate even though you know the decision has already been made. thats what mine recently did, and now i'm participating in the upcoming script frenzy. made by the same people as nanowrimo, script frenzy has people write 100 pages of script in a month. any kind of script you can think of. i think i'm going to write a screenplay.

i heard about it during nanowrimo and then got a couple of emails suggesting i sign up afterwards. i wasnt really considering it... except that i guess i was, and had decided to try it from the first time i heard about it.

i know less than nothing about how to write a screenplay - my lack of knowledge is really quite pathetic. but they have samples, templates, and other writer's resources, and i figure i have until april to learn anyways. right?? i have never really harbored any secret desires to write movies. i was always more into more traditional writing (novels, short stories, the occasional poem...) but i figure, why not?? it's worth a try and might be fun.

the main rule of script frenzy is just to write 100 pages of original script. this, however, doesnt have to be your own story. you can make an adaptation of your favorite book, remake a different movie, turn a play into a graphic novel, or whatever. that should make it a bit easier than nanowrimo, right?? and then you can have partners in script frenzy, too.

the only time ive ever written a script was sixth grade when my teacher made me write a play for my class to act out. it was about a girl and her two friends who go back in time to the native americans. i've pushed that memory to the very furthest part of my mind, but i think i remember there being a mambo line at the end. :/ it was an embarrassment to life.

*Try it on My Own - Whitney Houston