I'm a father of one boy and one girl. Husband of one wife. Senior Producer at LEGO at day. Amateur superhero at night.

Woopra

Posted: April 29th, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Clippings | Tags: , , | Comments Off

I’ve just been accepted into the closed beta of Woopra.

That is some sweet ass live stats you can pull from that program.

I’ve always liked Google Analytics a lot, but having live data is just that much better.


The end

Posted: April 25th, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Journal | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments »

… and FADE OUT.

And that leaves us with the following;

  • 106 pages
  • 25499 words
  • 71 scenes
  • 1 protagonist
  • 1 antagonist
  • 7 main supporting characters
  • 3 supporting characters still alive at the end of the screenplay
  • 50+ extras (that all die)
  • 1 large explosion
  • 22 hours of writing
  • 5 pages in average per hour
  • 4 pages in average per day
  • 51 minutes spend per average per day
  • 25 days of serious mood swings
  • 1 feature length screenplay
  • 1 winner of the Script Frenzy 2008
  • 1 very proud person
  • 1 very tired person
  • 1 person in serious need to relax and do something else for the next week or so

Next time, I’m gonna write a light romantic comedy… in pre-historic space… or something…


One hundred pages

Posted: April 23rd, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Journal | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »

I’ve done it!

Script Frenzy 2008 winner

I’ve written 100 pages of a screenplay in less than 30 days. As I mentioned the story isn’t done yet so I’m not celebrating just yet, but I’m damn proud of my self for being able to write 100 pages in this very tight time frame and with all the limitations I was facing.


92 pages and still going strong

Posted: April 21st, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Journal | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment »

After a weekend of heavy drinking (again) at one of my friend’s weeding I didn’t write that much on the script as I should have.

But I did manage to write 3 pages last night. And these pages I’m very much looking forward to be reading once the whole script is done. They’ll be interesting because they were written very much in a free flowing form, since my brain was still heavily impacted by the alcohol, and I really had no idea of where the scenes where going.

I still have 8 pages to write to win the Script Frenzy, and I gonna make it, no question about that. The only problem I have is that the story is not finished. I still have a lot of ground to cover, so the final script is gonna run somewhere between 115-130 page, which is way too long for a story of this kind.

But I’ll use the summer to do a through edit of the script and I presume that the final draft (oxymoron) will be around 90 pages long.


73 pages

Posted: April 15th, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Journal | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off

I’m so tired of writing, but that was bound to happen at some point right?

I hate the antagonist, but only not because he’s the antagonist but because he’s such a pain in the ass. I’m almost afraid that he maybe he’s too annoying and that the audience will hate him too much.

Good thing this is just the first draft, because lot’s of rewriting needs to be done on this area.


Halfway point

Posted: April 10th, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Journal | Tags: , , , | Comments Off

The crisis is over. Not that my mood as changed dramaticly, but I am over the top now and that feels great.

I still have doubts about the greatness of the story, but my writing has approved again after some days of shit poor writing.

I’ve just finished one of the larger dialogue scenes and in it my main character, David, says at some point:

  • DAVID
  • I’m not asking you to do anything against your will. If you wanna stay up here and wait for some rescue team to come sweeping through and take you with them, fine by me. But I’m not laying down my life waiting for something that might or might not come. If I’m gonna fucking die in here, I’m sure as hell are gonna die trying.

That’s me… if I’m gonna do this thing and write 100 pages or more in one month, I’m sure as hell gonna trying standing up.


Flickr Video

Posted: April 9th, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Journal | Tags: , , , | Comments Off

Just heard through the intarwebs that Flickr is launching has launched Flickr Video.

I don’t know about that one. I mean I love Flickr, I really do, but user created videos on the internet? Now where have I seen that before.

The above video, apart from being cute and all, is just very much representative of Flickr and YouTube. Which is which, you decided.


Crisis

Posted: April 8th, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Clippings | Tags: | 4 Comments »

First act is done, but I’m having some serious blues.
But that was expected I guess. I’m just having doubts about the greatness of my story.


19 pages

Posted: April 5th, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Journal | Tags: , | Comments Off

I found 45 minutes yesterday and used them actively to turn out 3 more pages. Amoung many things I wrote:

He bends down and touches the leg. When he does he discovers that he’s standing on the other foot and making it bend in a direction mother nature never intended it to bend. The person attached to the leg is very much dead.

I might be a little cheesy out of context, but I really like it.

As you’re reading this I’m out celebrating the upcoming wedding of a very good friend of mine, so no writing today, and today’s presumed high intake of alcohol might very well make that two days without writing.


Never

Posted: April 4th, 2008 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Clippings | Tags: , , | Comments Off

Since I didn’t write anything the Report Card tells me that if I continue in this pace I’ll never finish the script.

We’ll see about that my friend. You just wait.