A good week in spite of the tooth

I mean really, when I spent Sunday reading the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and then last night reading the screenplay for Shawshank Redemption you can't call homework a hardship. Lately I've been full of ideas for Adaptations. Part of that is Debbie being good at asking the right questions to get me excited about the ideas I have. I was talking to her about Dupin vs Holmes and she thought I'd have fun adapting a detective story. She also didn't discount Holmes just because it's been done a lot lately. Though she also liked the hook that makes me interested in The Mystery of Marie Roget. Then I told her about the Cape story I'm considering. She said, "That sounds perfect for you, but you should write it as a short so that you can actually shoot it." Except I'd been thinking I should write it as a feature and it could be the first feature I shoot. Too many ideas, not enough time. No, that's not true, all the time in the world. I won't stop shooting movies when I graduate. 

I also read several articles for editing class that were full of good tips  and advice. Don't be afraid to play around with it, don't be in a hurry, don't bluff. It only works if it works for the story, etc.

Today I talked with Charles to discuss my script and get the kind of feedback I can start to make revisions from. That was a good conversation. I think I'm going to like working with him on this. I'm liking him much better now than I was a year ago. One important first thing to resolve is that Sarah has an arc - she doesn't believe in ghosts at the start and by the end she does - but she doesn't have much of a struggle. Also the ghosts are too obviously ghosts. I have to figure out how to make that subtler or else Sarah just looks like a idiot for not getting it. 

And finally, now I'm home from cinematography (still loving that class even the second time around) and I just broke down and took an oxycodone. The dentist today offered me a couple prescriptions for the pain, but it turned out she was going to give me the same stuff that they gave me for leaving the hospital after surgery. I was trying not to take the harder core one because I took it a lot for 5 days in June and felt like I couldn't think well for weeks after. It says on the bottle "...will make you drowsy..." not MAY, but WILL.  The problem is for both pills they want you to take it with food and eating the snack right now made my jaw ache so much that I need the good drugs and then I'll just go to bed.