diane wonders if she's going to get anywhere, and doris does.
5.3 of the worst miles of my life.
Yesterday: none.
I had a good run Friday morning--5.3 miles. Next week: the half-marathon. So the plan for this morning was 10 miles, in order to get past the 5 mile mark and make sure that 10 miles was doable.
I barely got through 5. I stopped and walked a lot. I wanted to cry by the time I got home. I went back to bed for 2 hours.
I don't know what happened. I do know that I'm not ready for that half-marathon. So I won't be going.
I feel like such a failure.
Last night I watched a lot of TV. I watched Fantasy Island (way overrated--I had such high hopes for a Barry Sonnenfeld production after Maximum Bob) and Cupid (I'm still finding Jeremy Piven annoying--there's no depth to his character). I'll have to be really hard up on a Saturday night to watch those again.
I also watched the season opener of Profiler. I thought Profiler has, well, sucked for the past two seasons, but it's been taken over this season by Steven Kronish, who was involved with Wiseguy or Profitt (I think--one of those shows I really enjoyed). And my friend Doris is on staff at Profiler now--yay Doris!--so the scripts are gonna get a lot better. So I want y'all to start watching it and give it higher ratings so Doris will be employed for the rest of her life.
I visited with Linda today. I dropped off a copy of the treatment for my redo of my Thesis Script, and we discussed her new script. It's in a fairly nebulous state right now. Linda is much more free-form about her writing than I am--I've become a structure junkie.
I'm working with some online buds in a critiquing group, and I've noticed I can be really strict about story. I feel as though Len horsewhipped into me last year: What's the story? It's the hardest thing for any writer to do and it's why writers are so valuable. They come up with the story.
Of course, everyone has their own methods of working. Some people write a first draft and call that the outline. Some outline obsessively and don't start with word one until they know every detail and nuance of the script. I'm not even sure what my pattern is--I think I have to write a few more scripts to be sure.
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