Insomnia. What fun, what fun! At least I decided to be productive this evening, rather than just frustrating myself by lying in bed, wishing that I’d be able to fall asleep.
I’ve got seventeen days. Seventeen days to finish an entry for a scholarship/contest thing. It’s for $30,000. And what do I have to write in 17 days? A screenplay. Yeah, it’s crazy, but I’ve already got it figured out. This idea came to me while I was in London. The absolute very last day full day I was there, I was getting onto a train at South Ealing station and boom, it hit me. Everything. It was entirely there, right down to the locations. I’ve been working on character development and names ever since I got back, but I’ve been delaying it for some strange reason. Partly because I felt stupid being yet another “sap” writing a screenplay. Everyone supposedly writes screenplays. I’ve even gotten grief about it. But who cares! For $30,000 bucks, I’ll take the heat. Even if my screenplay is crap, I don’t care, I’m still going to give it a shot. I doubt I’ll win, considering I’ve never written a screenplay before, but if it doesn’t work out, I’ll turn it into a novel. At least I know I’m not horrible at novel writing. 🙂 But, it’s worth a shot. Who’d pass up a chance at $30,000 when they already have a half-decent idea for an entry? I’ll be working my butt off for the next 17 days, writing what I hope will be something worth a college education. It’d pay for almost everything for the next three years of schooling. And then if it gets turned into a movie… woohoo! 🙂
And, the funniest part of writing this particular screenplay is dreaming up the namesakes. 🙂 Yup, that’s right, several of my friends will be playing key roles in the plot, and most of them don’t even know it. Past boyfriends, past crushes, good friends, arch-enemies, it’ll all be there. Heather’s life, fictionalized and turned into something nothing at all like Heather’s life. Hehehe.
Okay, this blog is rapidly deteriorating into my sleep-deprived rants and ramblings. But gosh it’s fun. 🙂 I always enjoy writing these types of blog entries so much more than those soul-searching, sappy ones. I always get all embarassed after writing those, whereas with these I have a ready excuse – “It was 3am, I couldn’t sleep!” Now I can be as crazy as I want and you’ll all just have to understand. That’s what this blog is for anyway. I wanted a place where I could be ridiculous. So there. 😛