Writing progress.
The entire week has been dedicated to writing scene 37. And I made some good progress. I actually wrote a lot, even though the final word count doesn't really reflect that.
As I struggled to find Hard Sub Jack's voice, I focused on the action rather than the tone, and I managed to finish the first draft rather quickly. I then focused on making a second pass, concentrating on making Jack sound like he should. Well, I still struggled, but I think I finally succeeded. The script really unlocked on Wednesday, and if the idea was just to adjust the tone, I ended up rewriting pretty much everything.
If you have ever tried yourself at writing, you probably know what I'm talking about. You can struggle for days, feeling like you are going nowhere, and finally, you suddenly find the key, the valve opens, the ideas are flooding you so fast that you barely have time to note them, you write everything as fast as you can because you just can't stop the flow. You might very well be writing pure shit, but it's a problem for your future self to deal with. You have to exploit that surge of ideas for as long as it lasts because you know that it won't last forever. It's exhilarating and exhausting. And you most likely end up with a script in such a chaotic state that it will need some heavy editing, and that you will have to cut most of it, but it also contains all the ideas you need to make something good, because it comes from the right place.
So... yeah, I ended up writing 6200 words in two days, and I need to edit them down. To have a scene comparable to scene 36, I need to bring it down to about 4200 words. But Jack is now just the right mix of controlling asshole with a dash of inappropriate and obsessive love that defines the character on that path. And the action has gained in intensity. I'm not overly worried about the edit because I know for a fact that there is a fair bit of redundancy I can safely remove. I'm not sure it will be enough, but that should be a good start.
I think I'll spend Monday and maybe Tuesday on editing that script and finishing a third and definitive draft. Then I'll switch to cutting the scene and preparing it for posing on Wednesday. That means that the posing of scene 37 will be ongoing before the end of next week.
The quick sum up.
V0.6.8 will contain 4 scenes: Day 6 Scene 36, 37, 38, and 39.
Day 6 Scene 36 has been written, posed, rendered, post-processed, and coding phase one is complete.
188 shots are planned, 188 are posed, 188 are rendered, and 188 are post-processed.
12 651 words of new content so far, but it will go down after some much-needed edits. I'm aiming for a total of roughly 10 500 to 11 000 words for scenes 36 and 37 combined.
2 track is ready.
I'm currently writing Scene 37.
You can follow my progress on this Trello board.
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