Wednesday, June 30, 2010

I'm Cheating On Microbiology... With A Screenplay!

I have a test tomorrow (I hate the way that sounds), but instead of studying I'm working on my screenplay. I'm having an incredible writing day. I'm like some kind of literary savant right now. I don't know if it's the perceived element of danger that's making my mind work so quick and clear (I just laid out a beat sheet, from scratch, in like thirty minutes flat), or if I'm just super saturated with months and months of creative suppression and it's just now getting a chance to overflow.
I've had a longstanding theory that the best thing you can do for your writing is join a gym, because then your excuse for not working out can be writing. Well, this is even better. You - go sign up for a full credit fall course in Microbiology, or Physiology or something like that, and I give it two weeks before your writing takes off like one of those cube shaped kites that nerds fly for fun. I guess it also helps that I'm writing an alien movie, so every once in a while my teacher will mention something about genetics or spores and on the inside I'm going "plasmids, of course! That's how they do it - they inject the spores via the pilus! It's simple Prokaryotic mutation!"
You know what else is awesome? Finding a new writing spot that nobody knows about. It's like my and my screenplay's cheap motel room, only it's a private study room at the library. I'm in it right now (don't tell anybody). There is nothing in here but a desk, two chairs, an electric typewriter and a whiteboard. And now me, and all my crap. It's beautiful. I don't know why I didn't think of it before. I can reserve this room up to two months in advance. I can literally plan appointments with my writing. With no luck at all, this screenplay will be written before fall semester starts. Take that, nursing school. You can't have all of me! Never!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad you're back at it! I'm ready to be done with my short film so I can get back to writing myself!

Joselyn Martin said...

I thought you might be proud of me.

Jenn M RN said...

This is sooo funny! I am a nursing student myself. I am enrolled in a micro class over the summer and every time I have to study I get distracted with reading… Anything. It’s like all of a sudden all the great books I’ve been putting off for the last two years must be read... Immediately! Well, good luck with your screen play, and your studies!

Joselyn Martin said...

Thanks Jennifer. Us nursing students gotta stick together. Good luck to you, too.