So, counting last week Sunday through Thursday, and subtracting last night (long weekend in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King), I wrote 11 pages last week for The Pirate's Bride and 3 pages for our new screenplay, See You on the Other Side. And those page counts don't include editing for both pieces. Considering that I was hoping at one point to manage 8.33 pages a month, I am happy with the bottom line. Could always be better, of course, but for right now, good enough.
On to the agents' queries... I did send one earlier this morning; first one to a book agent since, wait, lemme look it up--holy frijoles!--last April! Wow. Well, that's one good reason we haven't gotten much response; if we don't contact them, I'm pretty sure they won't contact us.
Yikes. I know we got caught up in the Nicholl Fellowship and then moving house, not to mention moving my dad up here, followed by the responses generated by the fellowship, but still... Time for me to fix my lips and get my shit together. (That's what we tell the dog when his flappy lips get rolled up against his gums...)
All right, 3:30AM break is over, time to get to work.
3 comments:
I love it, have to remember that one! 11 pages is awesome! Mine are all in my head. would help if I wrote them down I guess, but that's the scary part.
Tee hee -- we're hoping to see it become a universal phrase. And thank you so much for the encouragement -- and I encourage you right back. Write it down! Give it fifteen minutes a day if that's all you've got, but (to borrow from Nike's old ad) JUST DO IT! :)
"I wrote 11 pages last week for The Pirate's Bride and 3 pages for our new screenplay, See You on the Other Side."
14 pages in 4 days sounds pretty good to me ! :)
A new screenplay ? Woohoo. Can you say what it's about ?
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