Milestones, ice days, and randomocity

I finally got this screenplay thing knocked into decent enough shape to send off to my collaborator. I sent it to her an hour or so ago. I haven't heard any explosions yet so either she's happy with what she's seen so far or she hasn't read it yet.


This is a big step in this process, for me, showing the work to others. It always makes me nervous. Sure, I like it, but it's difficult to remain objective about your own work. Especially so, for me.


You could say I've gotten lucky a couple of times on this project, too--the weather helped me out, giving me a total of four extra days to work on it, with two snow days a couple weeks ago and two ice storm days this week. I wasn't expecting to be at this point until this weekend.


As I mentioned, it's an ice storm day, for me, as was yesterday. If you didn't know already, a huge storm system moved through this area and dumped snow, sleet, and freezing rain all over everything. The office where I work was closed yesterday and again today because the roads were a total mess--fortunately, the power didn't go off here. I took advantage of this opportunity to get some serious work done on the rewrite.


I just took a look around the property, after being cooped up in my apartment all day--the ice is now melting. It's supposed to get below freezing again tonight so any ice that had only partially melted will refreeze, but hopefully there won't be all that much. My poor old truck was covered with a sheath of ice and snow--hopefully, that will be gone tomorrow morning, too.


What's the plan for the rest of the day? Hmmm . . . I can't work on the screenplay until I hear back from my collaborator, so that has to sit. Maybe I'll make some art, if I can come up with something that interests me. I may start putting together some notes for another project I can work on in the mean time.


Or maybe I'll just not do much of anything the rest of the day. I have gotten a lot of stuff done the last couple of days, and tomorrow at work is going to be insane I think.


That plan sort of resonates with me. I think I'll go with that one!