An odd thing happened last night. My every intention was to stay up until midnight so I could dig in to Script Frenzy right when it started. The plan was simple; all you can eat sushi, a couple hours of rest and prep, and then a couple hours of writing before bed. That's not what happened.

I distinctly remember stopping eating before I reached that uncomfortably full phase. Apparently I didn't stop soon enough. About fifteen minutes after leaving the restaurant I was terrified to burp because I didn't think it would be coming up all alone. Arriving home incredibly uncomfortable I laid down. My general thought was that I should just relax and let my body digest and I'd be okay in a couple of hours. That was 8:30 PM. A short three and a half hours away from Script Frenzy starting.

I fell asleep. I'm not sure when but it wasn't long after laying down. I woke up at 8:50... in the morning. Yeah. Apparently it was more sushi than I thought.

A little over 24 hours into Script Frenzy and I'm 18 pages down. Not a bad first day at all. I have no clue where I'm going with this but I like the set up so far. I'm curious as to what kind of hell I'm actually going to end up sending these poor bastards through.

Last year around Script Frenzy time I created a simple name generator application in Ruby using scraped census data. I'm quite happy that it's still around and I'm still using it.

I'm hoping I can stay on track over the next two weeks. I have filming this weekend to complete and then editing after that. It's entirely feasible that this could pull me completely off of this. I really hope that's not the case. I'd like to finish early and have some time to polish up the first draft before April is up. Not rewrite but just clean up.

To close out I want to seriously pimp Dropbox. I work across three computers very frequently. I switch off between my laptop and desktop computer all the time. Dropbox has been phenomenal in keeping my materials synced across all three systems. Completely cross platform and offering 2 GB of storage for free it's such a nice addition to my tools. Even if I wasn't using it to sync across multiple computers I'd be using for the online back up of all my materials. It even keeps track of revisions. You can roll back to an earlier version whenever you want. So awesome. My only gripe is the conflict system. Currently it just creates multiple versions of the same file if two different systems try to upload the same file with different changes. Other than that? Amazing software that has made my life so much easier.

Here's what I've been working on, warts and all. Zero edits done at this point.. Down On The Farm. Chances are I'll keep overwriting the same file so just cause this post says 18 pages doesn't mean that will continue to be true.

david shute - Apr 2, 2009 at 12:16 AM