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    Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 6:03am
Have been wrestling with a great idea for a screenplay, or book, for months - have done 40 pages book, 15 pages screenplay(just love how it looks in my head) - all the while not know where it was going to go.  I am great at forming an idea, feeling right through to the end without really having a whole plot - there are a number of scribblers full of half baked ideas- no longer true, in this case.  Woohoo!  What a feeling when it all comes into focus!  I now have a purpose in life again!


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I had a novel sit at the 40% mark for five years once because I thought I had written myself into a corner.  Which I had, but then I wrote myself up the wall and across the ceiling.
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Originally posted by JeffreyHowe JeffreyHowe wrote:

I had a novel sit at the 40% mark for five years once because I thought I had written myself into a corner.  Which I had, but then I wrote myself up the wall and across the ceiling.


Royal Wedding.  Fred Astaire, Jane Powell.  Leonard Winston Spencer-Churchill's daughter was in that one, too.

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Originally said Elanor Powell, but he only danced with her in Broadway Melody of 1940.  Oh, man, did they dance together!  Woof.

Of course I have it on disk.
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Originally posted by JeffreyHowe JeffreyHowe wrote:

I had a novel sit at the 40% mark for five years once because I thought I had written myself into a corner.  Which I had, but then I wrote myself up the wall and across the ceiling.


I have a finished book, far too many pages, that I have been trying to edit the past few years - those incidents have become fewer and fewer, lol.  I am just so bored of it.  I start where I left off but a few days later its shelved again.  I think what I need is to get a live-in English literate girlfriend again, but they are few and far between here.
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