Sunday morning vegging out randomocity

I'm taking some time off from the rewriting, now that I've managed to finish the first pass. Now, I'm going to let it sit for a while.


I have to take a business trip this week and I'm thinking I'll do the next read-through when I get back from that. At that time it will have been a week, which seems to be about the right amount of time to spend away from it.


So, no further updates on The Sorcerer's Daughter other than I've done the first rewrite, and it is now marinating for a while. And yes, I'm still happy with it, overall, though there are some specific areas that I believe need more work.


The trip I mentioned is for my day job--I'm providing support for my co-workers at an Expo out of town. I'll be spending some time on the road and hopefully, since I won't be driving, I'll be able to at least make some notes about this television project that I've been mulling over for a while now. It's time to actually get some words down on the page, I think. At least it's time to plot out the pilot, even if I don't quite have time to write the screenplay.


I'll also be thinking about the show's bible, the central characters, the over-arching story-line, and general thinking about the entire milieu. Specifically, I'll need to develop the politics of the time a little better, because a lot of that will come into play. I've also got to work out some religions that will become important.


This is a bit of a scary time for me, creatively, though--I'm almost done with a project and don't really have another one in mind to start on when I start shopping The Sorcerer's Daughter around to publishers. I don't know why, but it always causes me some anxiety. I've got some ideas for novels but nothing is stepping forward, demanding to be written, at this point.


Which means, once I'm finally done with the rewrites, and had an editor look at it and dealt with the issues that she finds, I'll go back to writing scripts. Which is not a bad thing, considering I enjoy writing scripts, and this TV show idea can eat up an awful lot of my creative time. But I'd kind of like to have an idea for a novel sitting there in my mind, too, just in case I need one.


Oh, well. It's not like I need something right now. Got lots of time yet before it's even a consideration.


I'm watching Apollo 13 on TNT right now, and this movie is a great example of what I try to remind people about--don't consider movies about historical events to be an education about those events. For example, in the movie, Nixon comes across as a total ass. In Jim Lovell's book, Lost Moon, the basis for the movie, Nixon is actually quite sympathetic. Since Lovell was actually there I tend to trust his perception over the folks who wrote the screenplay. While I'm no Nixon defender, there's no point in falsely portraying what he did and said during the events of the movie--the man gave history plenty of material to work with to make himself look like a slime-ball outside of the events of a failed moon mission.


But, if a movie gets you curious about something that actually happened, by all means, go out and educate yourself about it. Even if the movie gets it completely wrong, you would have learned something, and you can amaze and amuse your friends, pointing out exactly where the movie screwed it up!


I try not to do that, myself, but sometimes it's hard to bite my tongue and let a glaring error slide on by . . .