The State of the Deirdre
Jun. 8th, 2009 12:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deirdreApple's developer conference (WWDC) begins tomorrow, so I'm waiting to hear what's up as much as anyone.
Work's been understandably busy.
I realized I'd overshot the end of my novel draft (meaning wrote beyond the natural end of), so I have a draft, at least of the main plot line. I'm declaring victory. For some weird reason, I always overshoot the endings of novels, and almost never do that in a short. Why?
Been reading screenplays enough to feel like I can finally read one that I haven't seen and get a good sense of it.
Writing a screenplay is something that still eludes me: the form isn't yet invisible, so I keep getting tripped up by stupid things.
Read part of the screenplay for Robert Pattinson's next non-Twilight film, which starts filming in a couple of weeks. I didn't want to spoil the film, but decided to read it up until the point where I could really see him as the actor for that role. Page 41, which seems quite late for that. The earlier dialogue just doesn't seem terribly distinct.
Alexis says that he recently found a short he'd done on IMDB. Here's the link. (He plays the male lead)
Seen a bunch of movies lately.
Met up with some other pen people on Saturday and had lunch with them, so that was always fun.
Sunday, we went to the farmer's market and picked up some purslane, which is really high in Omega-3 goodness. I'd looked for some recipes and found one in a Rick Bayless cookbook, so I made it with grass-fed beef (another farmer's market haul) and other organic ingredients, mostly from the farmer's market, where possible. The cilantro was picked fresh. I don't recall the serranos or the tomatillos being organic, but if they weren't, they were the only ingredients that weren't.
It's awesome. I'll have some for lunch tomorrow too.
Gotta get up early to hear the keynote. :D
Work's been understandably busy.
I realized I'd overshot the end of my novel draft (meaning wrote beyond the natural end of), so I have a draft, at least of the main plot line. I'm declaring victory. For some weird reason, I always overshoot the endings of novels, and almost never do that in a short. Why?
Been reading screenplays enough to feel like I can finally read one that I haven't seen and get a good sense of it.
Writing a screenplay is something that still eludes me: the form isn't yet invisible, so I keep getting tripped up by stupid things.
Read part of the screenplay for Robert Pattinson's next non-Twilight film, which starts filming in a couple of weeks. I didn't want to spoil the film, but decided to read it up until the point where I could really see him as the actor for that role. Page 41, which seems quite late for that. The earlier dialogue just doesn't seem terribly distinct.
Alexis says that he recently found a short he'd done on IMDB. Here's the link. (He plays the male lead)
Seen a bunch of movies lately.
Met up with some other pen people on Saturday and had lunch with them, so that was always fun.
Sunday, we went to the farmer's market and picked up some purslane, which is really high in Omega-3 goodness. I'd looked for some recipes and found one in a Rick Bayless cookbook, so I made it with grass-fed beef (another farmer's market haul) and other organic ingredients, mostly from the farmer's market, where possible. The cilantro was picked fresh. I don't recall the serranos or the tomatillos being organic, but if they weren't, they were the only ingredients that weren't.
It's awesome. I'll have some for lunch tomorrow too.
Gotta get up early to hear the keynote. :D