motiviation

happy birthday nesf

last night i watched gladiator. i think it has to be one of my favourite movies ever. i've seen it about 10 times and it's brilliant every time. it was so good, in fact, that it broke my creative block. i went upstairs afterwards and wrote about a page (which isn't that much, but i was tired). then today, i got about 700 words done (which isn't that much either), but more importantly i remembered how to write. this may seem like a kind of stupid thing to have to remember (but you must keep in mind that this is coming from someone who forgot about party shuffle in iTunes). my problem is that i've been trying to write straight to the screen, which never works with me. last night, i remembered that i write lying down in bed - and it works. words just flow and ideas come so much easier. i think sitting and creativity just don't happen for me. so now i'll be writing mornings and evenings, and hopefully getting up to 1500 (2000 would be sweet, but perhaps a little unrealistic) words per day. of course, this will only last while i'm doing re-writes, but i have about 4 scenes to do at the moment.

so all's good :)

i got to see harry and guinness playing for real today. ooh, i think i totally forgot to mention penelope_stone's video of them. here's the video. so today, we were listening to music outside (the sun is shining - it's wonderful) and lovecats came on. you may have noticed that lovecats is the song from the vid. anyway, it came on and the two messers came into the garden and wrestled for a bit. it was so funny. and crazily coincidental. my life is just full of them these days!!
harry and guinness are totally like gay loves, though. they'd totally have little puppy-kittens if they could!!