another weird dilemma
I watched the mario movie today
during it, I kinda realized something about my own stories. the movie just seemed really fun. It wasn’t too goofy, had a consistent theme and tone, and was fun to watch. the spectacle of some of the action scenes, the characters dynamics and the way it felt. I’m not at all a mario fan, i’m more of a super metroid guy, so I went into this with curiosity and low expectations. I was blown off my feet, per usual with most movies I had low expectations for. but curiousity kills the cat, and I realized something.

I have an outline for a story I’ve been working on forever. a basic, cool concept. and now i’ve stopped having fun with it. I started with an open mind and went crazy with the concept, but now I feel as if I’ve boxed myself in and said ”this is what i’m making and how i’m doing it, no other way” and now I don’t think i’m making the story I want to make. It’s dark, pessimistic at times and only sheds light on the lower sides of characters. that’s not what I want anymore, it doesn’t refect a side of my beliefs I stand by anymore, and the truth is I don’t know what i’m trying to say with this damn story.
i’m stuck.
I’m postponing a lot, just so I have time to rethink all of this.

curiousity after killing the cat

overthinking
late shift needs a sense of urgency

So, I just started slightly working on the script, and i’m already running into problems with the rewrite.
There’s no need for the big climax I want
I need to find the need
essentially, if the characters aren’t separated then the subway sequence makes no sense, but if they are then the sequence does make sense but there’s no sense of urgency in the finale
the trade off ain’t worth it, so I have to find the urgency

anyways

not even lgbt just saw this going around

more scriptwriting
I woke up in a chair in front of my old computer at like, 3 o’clock
last night

So, I fully went through the script and found some problems with the structure and writing. Lemme list ‘em so this doesn’t seem unwarranted.

1. how the characters meet icarus
the characters fall through the floor of a mall, into a subway and get separated. In the pre-revisional version louise kills a bunch of infected and then afterwards the characters regroup and meet icarus. however, I felt that there was no sense of urgency and it felt like he had no reason to join the characters. Now, the characters still get separated, but they find the subway overrun with infected. louise tries to hold them off to no avail, and is saved by icarus, and they get out, without jade and peri.
2. just the whole interconnected story
I’ve decided that after the subway incident peri and jade run into the other main characters who sorta act as antagonists, nichole and madge. then the characters all meet in the town and stuff like that, big climax
3. dialog
louise is a whiny bitch for the first half of script

ahhhuughhhh

I’ve been here for one year lol

best and weirdest year of my life
I hope I changed for the better after all this shit
here’s to the future, I guess

have y’all ever wanted to make something cause you have a random bout of inspiration, but you can’t so it’s just kinda slowly draining away as the normal-ass day goes on

I want to be as frequent as I can posting on this group, but there haven’t been many developments. Uh, so I’m finishing up on the Buddi redesign and polishing the look of Caiman that’s inspired by his IG Remake. The script editing is almost done and I still haven’t found the right computer to use. things are going slow