An outline got into the next stage of a competition/workshop. Was given three weeks to send the script, which of course I did not have!
So for the last week or so I was looking at reasons to avoid writing- too scared that what I was going to write would turn out to be nonsense.
Finally bit the bullet as they say in English, buckled down to writing. Then the story revealed itself, modifying itself as we went along. Gathering its own momentum, much like ice or butter melting, or ghee on a warm fluffy chapati-to use an Indian image.
Finally finished it last night, feels quite good. at least to me on a first read.
A very different movie from the one I had set out to make, but at the same time a well worked out one. A sort of ‘universe in a grain of sand’ movie, where in a short easy story you see a whole range of emotions and the universe.
Otherwise, the usual end of script emotions- elation and fatigue –are very much there. Plus the overall feeling of an empty mind.
At least the script is done and shipping in time!
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