short film script

It's such a good feeling when you get on a bit of a roll. I sat down today and wrote the first draft of a ten minute short film, straight off. I'd been jotting down notes for a few days after getting the idea last week, and now I've sent off a whole draft to a few trusted people for comments and feedback (which helps me to put it aside for a while so I can see it better myself). When I say 'a few trusted people' maybe I should point out that I'm in a writers' group that meets regularly for feedback and discussion of whatever work we are doing - so I've sent it to them. (I was going to say 'a small writers' group, but that conjures up quite the wrong impression.)
I know I'll regret sending it out as such a rough first draft when I see all the inconsistencies and jarring, clumsy over-written stuff. But if I didn't send it today it would be too late for the next group and I'd have tinkered with it so much I might have abandoned it by then. All this is irrelevant to me at the moment because I'm just so pleased to have got in the zone again. There were a million other things I should have done today but instead, once I got writing I just couldn't stop (heaves deep sigh of contentment).
Not only that but, thanks to the delights of frolicking in my private blog and the happy coincidence of talking to a director/actress /friend who wants to do a one-woman show, I have also had a great idea, complete with title, for a one-woman show, all full of light and dark and all that, and I've been writing daily snippets towards that with suspicious ease.
Long may it continue.

private blogging

Yesterday I set up a totally private blog. I am the only person who can read it or write in it and it is not available on search engines. Why does this feel like I've stumbled upon a secret garden? It's as though I just have to enter the password and I'm striding through acres of untrodden ground, exploring dank primeval forests, tumbling into corners of undergrowth where the little people carelessly offer me their crock of shining gold. In short, I've discovered creative paradise. It's early days yet but I've gotta tell you, I feel unleashed.
My idea was that the private blog would be somewhere to jot random and undeveloped thoughts, observations and images with a chance of being able to retrieve them via labels (retrieval of jottings has aways been a problem for me). But I discovered a contrary freedom too in being contained within that neat little blog post box. And the fact that it's private and still a blog makes it an ambiguous liminal space between public and private worlds. I like it. I want to scatter it with words and see which ones take root. Does everyone have one?