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[readingredhead]

Okay, so I've had a couple of people ask me about what I want for my birthday...I hate having to answer that question because I either don't know or I don't want to sound greedy.  Honestly, I don't have a problem with gift cards for anything that I actually use.  Books, clothes, whatever -- I'm never going to complain if I get to pick out my own gift.  And I'm sure there are other things I want...I just don't know what they are.  I pretty much have everything I want.

Wait, scratch that -- I want the X-Files movie on DVD.  With that, I would have everything I wanted.  Or at least, everything that I can think of wanting (yes, I know I'm a geek).

On a completely different note: I am feeling out of the loop and off-balance.  I don't know what to do with myself at school now that I'm not expected to do anything.  I'm really almost glad that Script Frenzy is taking place during June -- it'll force me to deal with this malaise by doing something productive.  I think I have decided what I'm going to write my personal play about.  Corinne and I are writing a romantic drama somewhere along the lines of Roman Holiday (this will be a screenplay) and I'm going to write a two-act stage play about a small writers' group in a large city.  Script Frenzy is different from NaNoWriMo because A) you're allowed to work with a partner and B) to "win" you only need 20,000 words.  I figure this is a cinch, since I did three times that many in November, so that's why I'm writing two scripts.  (Also, I couldn't pick between a movie and a play.  I want the experience with both, even if neither is a part of my chosen career.)

But I'm really excited about the writers' group one.  I think I'm going to have five characters, max, all who don't know each other before they show up at the group's first meeting.  I don't know how they decided to get together in this group; I think it might be a small independent-study graduate-level writing course at some prestigious public university that they happened to all sign up for.  I like the idea that it wasn't even their intention to end up in the same class, it just happened -- sort of like fate bringing them together.

I don't know why fate would want to do that, at least not yet.  They're all going to be wildly different writers in very different genres.  I don't know what genres I want them to write in, but there will be someone who generally produces science fiction or fantasy, someone who writes "literary fiction," someone who's into novels, someone else who's into short stories and novellas, and a poet who has no idea what he/she is doing in a class full of people writing prose.

IDEA: The entire class is spent waiting for the teacher to show up.  The teacher never does.  The idea is that they all teach themselves...ooh, I like that!  I like that a lot!

Now I'm going to watch X-Files and ruminate.

Comments

[pippins-smile.livejournal.com]

Stephanie's silly excuse for the lack of an RSVP - Still don't know if I can make it... and I lost the invite!! Mind re-supplying me with the information? I definitely have it on my calendar for 2 on Saturday, but I've yet to find out if I can make it... (Oy. I sound redundant.)

[sophia-is-cool.livejournal.com]

really random, but roman holiday is my favorite movie ever:)

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

Not random AT ALL. My sister and I have a tradition -- we watch it the night before school starts every year. We'll have to modify the tradition when I go to college...probably we'll watch it the night before I leave for move-in. I've got a Roman Holiday poster *in Italian* that I bought when I was in Rome. It's hanging in my bedroom! So cool.

[sophia-is-cool.livejournal.com]

i love that movie soo much. i'm totally jealous of your poster. audrey hepburn is my favorite actress :)