I'm Behind! My World Has Ended!

July 3rd and I'm already 6,000 words behind on the Nanowrimo challenge!! AHHHHHHH!!!! What am I going to do?! Although I know I could've been writing instead of watching Avengers cartoons on netflix, the other reason I haven't been keeping up is because on July 23, I've promised to hand over a revised draft of a feature script to a production company I met at the Great American Pitchfest. I told them, "Give me thirty days and I'll send you a second draft." AHHHHHHHH!!!!! Why did I say that?! Revise a whole 110 pages and have it make sense in thirty days? Especially when the outline needs major changes for the characters and the exposition? AHH!!! (short AH that time) I love Nanowrimo, but revising is a whole different ball of wax than pounding out 50,000 words of a vomit draft that you know will never see the light of day. But I'm also a big fan of modifying Nanowrimo to fit your writing needs. Instead of having a goal to write 2,000 words a day, my goal will be to revise five pages a day-after I have an outline that I'm happy with. So that's the secret, folks. Grab time by the throat and make it work FOR you, not against you. Remember, a Nanowrimo winners badge is AMAZING, but not as amazing as getting paid for your work.

P.S. I was a big fan of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes on Disney (even though they messed up the theme song in season 2. I'd much rather hear the awesome song than listen to Fury tell me what I already knew about all the characters). The animation style was beautiful, I loved the voices, and I loved Jan, Black Panther, and Ant Man. Now, they've got Avengers Assemble on Disney with new voices, new characters and a new animation style to preface the next Avengers movie. The animation style is fine, but different. I think that Hawkeye's costume in Avengers Assemble is a huge improvement (except for the glasses. Hawkeye has ultra-sharp vision. what does he need glasses for?). I'm not a fan of the new voices. Thor sounds pretty much the same, but Black Widow's sultry, 'girls are better than boys' attitude is completely out of character for her. I half expected her to seduce Cap and Tony in the first episode. Tony Stark just sounds...I don't know, ridiculous? I need a couple more episodes to get used to him. I'll watch a few more episodes and give you an update. I'm still studying the dialogue to figure out why it bugs me so much.