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Screnzy Update!
I just realised that despite creating this blog to track my Screnzy progress I haven’t said a single thing about it since my first post!
And I know all two of my followers are incredibly curious about what’s been going so here it is:
It’s been going decently, a lot better than I expected. I just about barely managed to hit my 3 page target on April 1st but I managed to smash out about 10 more on the night of April 2nd leaking into the morning of April 3rd - which is all kinds of awesome 1. because I did way more than I thought I could in one night and 2. it meant I didn’t have to worry about hitting my deadlines for the next two days, meaning I got two days off.
Of course, those two days off are over now.
I broke a big rule and re-read some of my stuff which has lead me to delete a page or two (okay, more like 4 pages) which means I’ve gone from 13 to 9 pages. It’s annoying, but the story wouldn’t have worked in the direction I had it going.
Anyway, today (meaning Tuesday 5th) is my last day off from work, meaning the next free day I’ll have will be (hopefully) Friday 8th - which doesn’t leave a lot of time for work. What’s worse? Next week’s half term so I’m not gonna have a lot of time off to write then either. Yikes!
To try and get myself ahead I’m planning on hitting the 1/4 mark tonight, which means I’ll have to jump from 9 to 25 pages in the next few hours. I’m doing okay with that, I’ve hit 11 pages already and the story seems a lot clearer and fun to write from this point onwards. Plus, I’m fueled by determination and disappoint at the fact that I deleted some of it and that I didn’t do much writing today.
I’ll say one thing though - there’s nothing more off putting than seeing all of the people who are absolutely zooming ahead with their Screnzys. I don’t hate them or anything, I find it really impressive, I just feel a tad disappointed that I’m boasting at something others have been doing in their sleep. It’s actually kind of funny because I read about something called ‘Jonah’s Complex’ on TVTropes just today in fact:
The “Jonah Complex” in psychology, where if you fail something you beat yourself up over it because you’re not skilled enough, yet if you succeed you attribute it to pure luck and still beat yourself up over it for not being skilled.
Not exactly the same thing, I know but I think it’s similar. I know I’m doing well for me so I should really just try and keep that in mind. Pfft, if only it was that easy.
*sigh*. Okay, back to writing. Currently I’m writing to the beat of a rapper named XV and waiting for Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger to finish DL so I can have that on in the background too. If you like rap and/or geekdom you should give XV a listen, he’s born on my birthday so you just no know he’s good at words and what not (ha.). And if you like pirates and/or Power Rangers then maybe you should give Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger a watch.
Here’s a quote from my script. Tomorrow I’ll post up a synopsis type thing along with my update.
TORA: My point was that you need to prove yourself. Centuries ago that warrior did and now it’s your turn … my other point was I know you can do it. If the things you’ve been through have taught you anything at all let it be that you have it in you to accomplish anything.
(Seriously, that is so my subconscious telling me to keep going)
Day 4: Favorite rogues gallery
Spider-man’s Rogues
I think within the world of comics, or at least traditional western super hero comics, there are only four great rogues galleries and they belong to The Flash, Batman, Spider-man and Superman. I know that other comic books have recurring villains but only a few of them have been explored like the four mentioned above. If you look at how each one of them began you can really see how far along they’ve all come from being just things for the villains to hit to unique characters with wants and desires who work well as groups and who also help to define the heroes that they oppose by being a cracked mirror image of either the things they represent or the things that they can do.
That being said, with kudos to each of the Rogues galleries mentioned, the one I grew up with was Spider-man’s and so his were the first I ever saw explored in stories like Kraven’s Last Hunt and the many stories in the anthology series Tangled Web. Not to mention, for better or worse, it was Spidey’s rogues that gave us the death of Gwen Stacy which has permanently effected the comic book industry as well as being a fantastic story.
