Good Lord! I’ve just done some checking and I’ve not been here for more than a year. So where did 2010 go then?
I’m not really sure what happened, ’cause I thought I’d been in and now to discover I hadn’t. Does that rate as an “oops?”
Perhaps, and perhaps not. It’s all too easy sometimes to not really put anything on paper or on screen. I did, but not a great deal. I got a few stories finished, started and completed quite a few shorts, but of the two main pieces I had on the go, one is complete and the other is still a pain in the bum. What was supposed to be a fairly straight forward romance type tale only reminded me that I’m about as romantic as a brick through a window. Or a car crash, whichever takes your fancy.
So, 2010- ay… Sitting here now and it’s April 2011 and i’m trying to look back and apologize for a year that was basically crap. In my estimation, a lot of my lack of interest in anything “writing” came from a really crap year. Well, I have to blame someone/thing, so I’ll lay the blame on a piss poor year. Simply because I can.
Moving on then and in no particular rush… Miranda and Wendy finally wrapped in November 09. Coming up with a suitable ending had me scratching at my head for a long time, but I got there. I then started the so-called “editing”. Oh that was fun. I had a 440 page story and I sat down and began the process of what wasn’t required, or anything that I felt didn’t quite fit where it should. I did make a rather startling discovery during this stage and that was the number of times Miranda said “fuck”. To be fair, Wendy wasn’t too far behind in the swearing stakes, so I edited a lot of swearing and I almost went too far. But, after taking a mighty swing at it, M&W dropped from 440 pages to 408. Obviously, there was more than taking out swearing; some scenes were deleted or edited to get the story back up to speed. One of the ideas I had, was there was a certain speed at which the tale should be told, and in some circumstances, it slowed a little too much.
As the story sits now, it’s still waiting for that second sweep and I haven’t got around to it yet and a year has moved on. I had a great deal of fun writing this one. It’s origins are told elsewhere, but I can say, without a lie, is that I had a ball here and kind of sad when I saw “The End” on screen. But they had gone far enough and any more would be dragging the arse out of it.
I did think about the ‘Gap Year’ as it were. In terms I suppose that’s more of the “Where the hell did that go?” to “Oh, here we are now!” and it feels as if most of 2010 is not much more than a blank. I’m not on drugs or drink and maybe I should be. There has to be an excuse for what happened, but I guess that the FUN went out of it a little and so I pulled back and did… well, I did… um no I didn’t. What I did was to sit down and turn the damned TV on. Oh and how marvelous that was. I’ve discovered a few programs that are quite good and Doctor Who is one of them.
See now I’m getting into TV and I shouldn’t ’cause I’ll forget to keep my stupid mouth shut and just keep waffling away like I really know what the fuck I’m going on about. I need more tea. Or I’d like more tea. Or something. This is meant to be about the gap year that wasn’t as such. But I’m having trouble really deciding where the bloody year went. It came, and then went away again. Somewhere in there, was me. Funny how at times, I sound like I know what I’m doing.
Oh yes, this writing thingy. That’s what I was going to waffle on about at great length. Is it worth it? Or am I sitting on my skinny butt blowing smoke rings for no real reason. I’ll take a pass on that. But the thing is or was, I had fun with this thing. It was never intended to take me anywhere, but it helped feed my brain and it still does, although, the interest is strained somewhat, but that happens. I’m sure it does.
I think that what I should do is start wrapping this up. I can see it’s got a lot longer than I really planned – Ha! That’s a laugh. What plan? There is no plan. I digress. And apologize. This has been me and here I’ll say goodnight and following on in tradition, take care of yourselves and please, mind the gap.
