Doin’ Work
My credit card just got a $30 hit from the Austin Film Festival so that must mean they received my 30 Rock script. And now the waiting.
I worked hard on this script. I probably did ten outlines and a couple of treatments, though only the final treatment came close to coherent.
Sitting frustrated at my desk at work I decided to imagine that Tina Fey– whoa, you usually don’t want to finish reading sentences that start like that– called me up and asked me to pitch my episode in as much detail as possible. So with a cramping hand I scrawled four pages. There it was, a complete episode with A, B, and C stories.
The next day I made this:
Over the next week post-its gathered like moss while I banged out a couple of pages per day. Then one afternoon, without premeditation, I sat down and didn’t get up until I had written the last 20 pages or so. My ass was numb, it was completely dark, and my dog was annoyed.
For a while I thought it was my best work yet, but now I’m not so sure. I keep thinking that it could have been funnier. Jokes keep popping up that I could have used, but oh well. My work is over now.
I sent it out to three contests: Script PIMP, Scriptapalooza, and Austin Film Festival.
It’s going to be a long summer.
03.16.09Why The Austin Film Festival Is So Cool
Yeah, I know it’s SXSW time, and I’m not there 
. But I’m all smiley again because I remembered this photo I had from back in October. This is me talking to Greg Daniels (creator of The Office [US], among other things):
I love this photo because it looks like I have them enthralled in an great story that’s punctuated with swigs of Dos Equis (like most great stories are).
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