i'm old. Despite my best efforts to deny it, i have actual evidence that I am in fact old. My good friend Suzy was in town for work last week and we hit up a young hollywood party. Now the 2 of us are tinsel town gossip queens, but lo and behold we barely recognized the majority of these "celebs" that came to the party. Anyone ever heard of Bai Ling? yeah, I ddin't think so. I recognized "the miz" from the real world NYC like 6 years ago, and a few of the gals from the hills, but was very impressed when suzy knew "stephanie platt?!!" she's also from the hills.
the party was fun, loved spending time with Suzy and drinking a key lime martini and rubbing elbows with the people I didn't know were famous. The party was at the apple lounge (formely luna park for those people who knew LA 10 years ago *sigh* another indicator of my elderly status) and lady gaga performed (didn't know who she was either truth be told, but now i hear her songs all the time on the radio!)
so it was fun. hiked this weekend, worked out, hit mucho parties at silverlike wines, and Busbys and some other mexican joint, saw a few celebs at said parties, no one too exciting i'm afraid. now its back to the grind, re-writing my sony pilot, getting it ready for my producers this week hopefully!!!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Friday, March 06, 2009
sorry!!!
I am so embarrassed that I have neglected my blog! I have been crazy writing my pilot for SONY and the last thing I want to do at the end of a long day is to write!
Anyway, i'm back now, i just got notes back on my first draft: it's funny! It's hilarious, but i need to make the main character more vulnerable and show her emotional drive or some such nonsense. Here's a secret about writing, the main character is always always always the author. So when u watch a show, say greys anatomy, you know that meredith grey is shonda rhimes, i mean not entirely of course, but for the most part, who she really is is the writer of the show. The show I used to write for, the main character Eric was based on the creator's life growning up in buffalo, now the creator wasn't a nerdy guy, but he felt like he was and the story between eric and donna was based on his relationship with his first girlfriend in high school. Anyway, back to my script, this girl is me and since I'm not one to show my vulnerability to most people but the producer wants to see it... what do i do, or more like HOW do i do it. I guess i make her cry in the first ten pages.
THe thing is it takes something huge to make me cry. and its not like "oh i'm so tough i dont cry" its quite the opposite, I want to cry, but it my body doesn't generate that response to most typical cry inducing scenarios. Although in a sad movie when all my friends are crying i do recognize "i see this as a place where people woudl cry" so I do have the capacity for emotion. I just get mad that I dont react that way. Nor do i react at all, i'm like a robot. it's fine, i'm used to it. I know I cried in february 2008 and in november 2006, both having to do with doctors visits, dont worry i'm not dying, but I didn't cry when i was getting my appendix out. weird.
anyway, the moral of the story is i now have to make my character more vulnerable and since I dont know what makes peopel vulnerable, i'm not sure how to execute this on my next draft... off to think about it and will be back this weekend to chat more!
Anyway, i'm back now, i just got notes back on my first draft: it's funny! It's hilarious, but i need to make the main character more vulnerable and show her emotional drive or some such nonsense. Here's a secret about writing, the main character is always always always the author. So when u watch a show, say greys anatomy, you know that meredith grey is shonda rhimes, i mean not entirely of course, but for the most part, who she really is is the writer of the show. The show I used to write for, the main character Eric was based on the creator's life growning up in buffalo, now the creator wasn't a nerdy guy, but he felt like he was and the story between eric and donna was based on his relationship with his first girlfriend in high school. Anyway, back to my script, this girl is me and since I'm not one to show my vulnerability to most people but the producer wants to see it... what do i do, or more like HOW do i do it. I guess i make her cry in the first ten pages.
THe thing is it takes something huge to make me cry. and its not like "oh i'm so tough i dont cry" its quite the opposite, I want to cry, but it my body doesn't generate that response to most typical cry inducing scenarios. Although in a sad movie when all my friends are crying i do recognize "i see this as a place where people woudl cry" so I do have the capacity for emotion. I just get mad that I dont react that way. Nor do i react at all, i'm like a robot. it's fine, i'm used to it. I know I cried in february 2008 and in november 2006, both having to do with doctors visits, dont worry i'm not dying, but I didn't cry when i was getting my appendix out. weird.
anyway, the moral of the story is i now have to make my character more vulnerable and since I dont know what makes peopel vulnerable, i'm not sure how to execute this on my next draft... off to think about it and will be back this weekend to chat more!
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