The editing and writing continues full pelt filling all my spare time, but the process has been aided by three new Good Things I’ve started using.
The first Good Thing is Dave’s progress trackers. I’m not sure why I never used them before, they give me an enormous amount of satisfaction when I update them. The thought of getting them both to 100% Christmas is an excellent incentive. (Though I did have to tweak the style sheet to make it work in IE7 and Firefox 2).
The second Good Thing I’ve discovered is the Puk – a wrist rest that slides about so you can move your mouse arm freely and still keep it in a non-RSI inducing position. This is very handy as even though I’m using the keyboard shortcuts (JKL etc), there’s still a lot of clicking and dragging involved with editing. (Tip: initially I found that it kept hitting the bottom side of the mouse mat which was a little frustrating – then I realised that I could turn the mouse mat round 90 degrees and put the puk on the bottom half of the mat – sorted).
The third Good Thing, which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, is Tim Clague’s Scriptwriter’s Life diagram. This is a really useful diagram/chart type thing to have about you at all times – either on the desktop or printed out and stuck up somewhere nearby. It’s very detailed and Tim has been expanding on the ideas on his blog. I do recommend you check it out if you haven’t already. It’s covers all the bases, a lot of which people like Messr’s Field and McKee et al don’t cover, but are still just as important if you want to be a successful screenwriter, especially the networking and social aspects of screenwriting (or gaining ‘Gravity’ as Tim neatly puts it).
Now back to the editing – I believe the clergyman is about to have his face thrust into his disturbingly realistic and very full toilet bucket… there’s a lot of violence in this film and yet I still find the toilet buckets the most disturbing aspects of the whole thing.