It has been a while.
On several occasions I have become inspired to blog about something, only to lose all inspiration once I sit down to do so. I have approximately six weeks of school left, inside of which I need to complete two programming projects and one eight-page term paper. This is in addition to working forty hours a week, keeping up with the regular scholastic demands of a twelve credit work-load, and fixing broken computers on the side for people that I care about (in order to spare them a financial raping at the hands of the geek squad).
I’m also doing Script Frenzy next month. Yes, I’m going to write a zombie movie. Expect frequent updates during this time, regarding my progress and unraveling mental state.
Welcome Jared to subparcitizens.net! He hasn’t had much to say yet, but I’m sure he’ll soon be enlightening all of us on the ways of the world. He’s also doing Script Frenzy next month, and yes, he’s also writing a zombie movie. 
Also, Recapture has been downloaded 264 times as of now, and has blocked 112 (presumably) spammers from registering at my blog. Or maybe only one spammer, who has tried to register 112 times unsuccessfully. Now if I only had the time to get a new version around for WordPress 2.5 >_<
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As with the end of my adventure with NaNoWriMo, work has threatened to keep me (us) from succeeding. I’ve been doing various on-call-like activities all day that have kept me on my feet and away from the keyboard. Even this evening, while Geoff was frantically tugging my tired corpse across the finish line, work threw a lasso around my feet and tried to drag me the other way. Geoff was victorious, however.
We’re not technically “done” with the screenplay, we have almost the entire closing scene to construct, and a couple (more like 50) scenes that are in need of some serious tuning and pruning, but I’m not in the mood to spend any serious time wrestling with this thing. My mind has wandered onto new thoughts, like writing novels, exorcising Geoff’s computer, curing aids, writing computery programs, playing the video games, etc, etc, more etc, writing short stories and maybe another screenplay.
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I stopped writing early tonight to play the wonderful Enemy Territory: Quake Wars beta. Now that I’m done doing that, I think I shall write some more. I’m on call this weekend, and judging how the first hour and forty-five minutes of it have gone, it’s gonna be a shitty weekend. Also, I’m on call next week, which means that I will probably end my life on Independence Day, because it is a holiday, and none of my coworkers will be coming in. It’d be fitting I suppose, to commit suicide on the 4th, freeing myself from the chains of my labor.
Anywho, Geoff and I shall be skipping, strolling, racing, running, galloping, walking and dragging ourselves across the finish line roughly twenty-four hours from now. I’m excited. So excited, that I’m gonna go write some more crappy dialog to get us even closer.
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We’re drawing nearer to the end and things are getting a LOT easier for me to write. I’m not even wrapping things up; I’m still creating more conflict and drama. I guess those are the key ingredients of any good story.
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Yup. We’re almost done. It’s a good feeling.
I didn’t write today, and it felt pretty good.
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Geoff is leaving for Chicago tomorrow, and will be gone / unable to write until Friday of this week. That’s alright though, because he cranks out words like people in this town have kids. I could probably not write a damn thing until he gets back, and he’d still finish it for us before he went to bed on Friday night. I’ll be able to keep us going though; I DID complete NaNoWriMo remember?
Geoff wrote today, while I chilled out. I was expecting that our characters had gone back in time, cured cancer, developed another appendage, or overdosed on acid and discovered a hidden portal to heaven under their kitchen sink. Unfortunately, Geoff’s computer decided to make our travels a little bit more difficult, and somehow lost the 1,500+ words that he had crafted this evening. You never know what’s going to happen when Geoff takes over :) It’s all good though, we’ll only be a day behind, and if both of us write at least 667 words tomorrow, no one will know the difference…well, except for Geoff and I, assuming that Geoff doesn’t run out in front of a bus. I suppose that whoever reads this would know as well…………you can’t prove nothing!
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It’s hard to believe that we are approaching our last week. I’m trying to piece together the story for another screenplay or novel, that I will begin shortly after June is over. If anyone would care to join me, the pace I am going to assume is 500 - 1000 words per day.
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I skipped yesterday. I decided to play some Geometry Wars after work, then went to bed early (for me at least). Even though we’re close to 75% done, for some reason we’re only at seventy pages; we should be at ninety pages, and I don’t know why this is, but I blame Geoff anyway.
I’m currently reading “On Writing” by Stephen King. I haven’t read much of his work, but this book makes me want to consume them all. As well as write my own.
Time for some more Geometry Wars, then “The Prestige” then maybe something productive, then bed.