Cartwheels on Warm Cement

[Sheila Cull]

Nathan Bransford addressed television series script writing yesterday in his Blog. Reminded me of when, less than a year ago, a big time movie producer asked me to redo a manuscript into screenplay format. I saw myself flying first class to Hollywood, signing contracts and saying, "Do what you want with the scene but make sure the dialogue remains precisely as I wrote it."

Ultimately - rejected. Learning screenplay formatting took way over a hundred hours in 12 weeks. But I did it.

My time wasn't wasted because after all, it was spent writing. After that 1000th rejection I suddenly tripped into memoir writing and completing that first memoir chapter? I ran outside (I hadn't been outside in weeks, too much reading and writing) and did cartwheels. Seriously.

What have you been happy to waste time on recently?

(Posted originally on Friday, August 6th)