for thousands of miles

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2) Going over 64 Days parts 5 - 8 with Amanda. … 4) Watching the wave-tank at the Long Beach Aquarium. … 

The above video is my most recent 7x7, I only shared it here because I wanted to write about a really great meeting Amanda and I had on the next-and-last four parts of 64 Days - the shot is only of a yellow draft page on the table while Amanda is talking, but still, it’s semi-related to what I’ll be talking about. 

I mentioned in a November post that my focus this month and over the next few months ahead would be writing for our 64 Days series, I have been doing just that, while also finishing up some freelance editing work for a school in Michigan. Before Amanda and I sat down to go over the draft-scripts though, I was stuck… very stuck. Being stuck for a day is a bad-day, being stuck for a week keeps you up half the night tossing and turning, being stuck beyond that - well. When Amanda and I started reading what I had been working on, the areas of the script that were wrong quickly became obvious and I walked away with about 5 pages worth of notes. 

I admit, I do miss the early stages of writing - the FToM script is 99.9% complete, only a word or two here and there that we keep coming back to, and it’s nothing that we are waiting to move on, the film is moving forward as it’s written, but in the meantime, each time I re-read a page I find myself making a minor adjustment. But, working on 64 Days again, after so much time has passed, is very exciting. It’s difficult for Amanda and I to visit some of those days on the road - many of them were wonderful and productive, but a few were some of the most difficult days we’ve ever gone through as friends. Talking about them again and finding ways to approach them narratively was a great exercise and I’m anxious to revise my drafts based off the notes that we took.