Flirting with disaster...

One step forward- two steps back.

This picture reminds me of a story. I was interviewing a cop for Discovery Channel in some part of the US - and I noticed that his hand was really scarred up. I asked him what the heck happened. He told me that he went fishing with a bunch of his cop buddies - and they thought they snagged a Marlin. After fighting with it for a long time - they ended up pulling up a shark. It almost bit them as they got it up - and one of the guys pulled a gun and shot it.

Once they got it on board - they were all excited and started taking pictures with it. They took a beer bottle and put it inside the sharks mouth to prop it open and kept sticking their heads and various parts in the mouth and snapping shots.

Then - when they were all done - he stuck his hand inside the dead sharks mouth to take the bottle out - and the boat shifted - the bottle slipped - and the sharks mouth slammed shut on his hand.

There's a lesson to be learned here... just not sure what it is.

Felt quite good this morning. Got up and after helping Ivy clean up and get the kids to school - I actually got some writing done. Feeling great about what I have - and I should - since I agonize over each page before I write it.

The joy of writing without an outline. You spend days thinking about what would these characters say in an elevator - on the way to the roof. They must say something and I need to show their going up... so something happens right?

Sigh.

But it felt good to get words out. If only I could continue.

But now I'm writing for work. Have to have the script pages out for the model shoot - which is really four little stories. Gotta get them written up so that they can be translated and so that Bill can break them down for the art department - and so that we have an idea of what we are shooting.

I have one of the four in Final Draft. Working through the others.

Met with Ryan today and went through his comedy. It's really getting good. I thought is sounded fun. I added nonsense to his great start - we'll see how it comes out. Comedy is hard. Too hard. That's why I stick to tragedy...

Speaking of tragedy - I was so happy about getting my movies on my computer - that I ended up filling the hard drive. Had to go out and get an external one today. Hard to believe how quickly 80 gigs goes - what with music and movies. Back in the day, I thought I'd never fill 4 gig. Hell - I remember buying a 15 gig drive for video editing for $1500. Now its less that a gig a buck.

Back in my day...

So it's still strange to be home. Not flying off somewhere every Monday. How nice. Although the next China trip will be a doozy - so I need to enjoy the family while I can. Changes are coming.

Till then - I continue to peek inside the shark's mouth - praying I don't get bit.