Wasting Time; Still Learning About Life

That was an example of incorrect usage of a semicolon.

Oh well.

Preparations have begun for Script Frenzy 2007, which is basically the screenwriting version of NaNoWriMo, which I did last November (if you want a copy, I've still got a few pdfs of it here in the store, just e-mail me at tmargheim [at] gmail |dot| com). Anyway, I downloaded this program for writing scripts that are properly formatted (which is important), and I wanted to take it for a spin.

So I started writing something. At first, it was just me basically writing what precisely I was doing, only in properly formatted (which is important) screenplay. But since I'm alone in here, it was difficult to really test out its capabilities for writing dialogue. So I improvised artistically, and tried to remember what I've [apparently] worked so hard to forget, and write down some interconnected flashbacks of circa a year ago properly formatted (which is important).

I got sick of it. Maybe it was remembering, maybe it was the tediousness of my dialogue (which is certainly possible), maybe it was just boring; regardless, the lesson is in closing the software:

INT. DORM ROOM -- NIGHT

TIM sits alone at his computer, finishing his failed attempt at adapting his life into art. He clicks the X.

COMPUTER
Do you want to save your changes?

TIM
(voice over)
No.

He clicks no.

COMPUTER
(beeps)
USE EXTREME CAUTION. You responded that
you do NOT want to save your work.
Are you ABSOLUTELY sure you want to do that?

TIM is slightly stunned. He ponders this choice for a moment.

GIRL
(voice over. the voice is echo-y
and cannot be understood)
No matter ... pain ... remember, ... still ... your life, you know?

TIM sighs.

TIM
(voice over)
The echoes of shadows that never were.

TIM clicks yes. The screen goes blank.

TIM
Peace, love, and joy to you all.

FIN.