Lots of changes, I'm still writing

Looking at your life like on a doll house, that's inspiring. Everything seem to have a reason. You understand the order of things. It's called perspective, I guess. But it's also meditative.

Anyway, I switched departments at university: from directing to scriptwriting. It's been great, really brilliant. My work is to write now, it seems like the good life is here. No one pays me for it, but being smart as I am I know that little can be measured with money. Joy cannot. And my life is full of joy now.

I take two scriptwriting courses at uni: "writing the scene" and "advenced scriptwriting". For both I write on a weekle basis (writing and rewriting, that is). It's going very well so far (today I'll have a short script read at class, hope I still be so happy in the evening).

I also take that UCLA Extention course, feature scriptwriting. This also goes very well. We go from the premise, the characters and the structure - into creating the beat sheet of our feature. It's hard, requiring a lot of writing. A lot. 3 hours a day is the minimum I need to write to take this project somewhere, and the more I do it the more fun it gets. I see my characters better. they sometime even talk to me. Still miles to go.
I work now on the beat sheet for the second act. It is hard, to decide how it all will fold out.
We read a script every week (well, we can watch the movie instead but what's the point). So I've read yesterday Ghost. I think the script is much better than the film itself, even though it's not very different. We use on this class two books: Lajos Egri's "The Art of Dramatic Writing" and Linda Seger's "How to Make a Good Script Great". Both books are excellebt. Egri's book is meant for the theatre and I enjoyed reading the examples he uses, taken from plays I've never saw or even heard of. The book of Seger is just brilliant, very clear and full of usable notes. I think I'll buy this one (the library will want it back at some point and I just can't give it away).

Besides all that, I'm very pregnant now. 4th month. I have a small belly (the size changes all the time). I feel sick every evening, but at least I can go to the cinema (I couldn't do it one month ago). So I saw No Country for Old Men, which I loved a lot (but I wouldn't say it's the best film by Coen Brothers, this wouldn't be fair. Miller Junction, Blood Simple - they have such a diverse record, there's no one best film). I also saw 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 Days...which I must say I didn't go crazy for. the style was too outside of the movie. it's not like in Rosetta of
those belgian brothers, there the style was in the movie. Here i felt it was just a costum. I thought the acting was good, and some good dramatic moments. I guess I didn't like the directing very much. The script could have be made into a better film, that's my guess.

I shut up now.