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    Angry Aigh!! This sucks so hard!!

    I am seriously hating myself right now. I have 25 pages due on Tuesday morning, and I haven't written a word. I'm thoroughly stuck. This is the quarter of my screenplay when I have two characters on a road trip through blank desert and they have to fall in love. I have no idea how to write a friggin' love story. I've got a couple scenes I want to write but no idea how to fit them in. And I don't know how to show them falling in love when nothing else is going on, they're just driving across the desert. And I hate the fucking desert, and it's hot, and I don't want to think about summer in the desert when I'm already sweltering in it.

    I had hoped to get 15 pages tonight and 10 tomorrow. Nuh-uh. I suppose, since it is now two minutes to midnight, that I'll have to write 25 pages tomorrow. So I sat around all damn day and night drinking sangria and accomplishing sweet fuckall.

    Dammit.

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    Have some Yaqui/Tarahumara Indians show up and scare the hell out of them (I'm assuming you're talking about Southwestern US desert.) Or is this in the Middle East? (Giggle.)

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    Australian outback.

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    Have some Aboriginals show up with a mysterious Coca-Cola bottle that fell out of the sky & they are trying to walk it back to the edge of the earth...oh, wait, already done (The Gods Must Be Crazy.)
    A wild dingo races up and tries to eat the girl. Boy bravely saves her & cooks dingo for dinner. LOL

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    ROFL! I loved "The Gods Must Be Crazy"! Haven't seen it in years.

    And there are no boys. It's two girls.

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    2 girls.......I suggest they end up recounting their junior high school years to eachother (those are supposed to be the "formative" years for people) & then they magically realize they are so perfect for eachother.

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    Well... long story why I can't do that; it would give too much away.

    Anyway it's not really so much that kind of thing, it's just general writer's block.

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    Have 3 dragqueens show up and dance for them and ask for a fix for their purple bus.

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    well, considering you are being baked alive without AC, does it really have to be in the desert?

    Couldn't you have them fall in love on the frozen steppes of Russia, or maybe in Chicago?

    I went for a walk in a major blizzard in Chicago with my first girlfriend--it was pretty cool (um, sorry--unintentional).

    OK, if it's gotta be a desert, maybe they could find something (not a coke bottle, and yes that movie was great!), or have a wild desert eagle hover around them to wake them up to some symbolic, wild passion or something?

    Or find the sand-etched skull of some long departed desert beast, causing them to ponder the transcience of life, and the need to enjoy passion right there and then, before it's too late?

    Could they see the same shimmering desert mirage of a nice cool pond of refreshing water, lol, with lush palm trees and fertile bunnies hopping about in procreative frenzy?

    I don't know, I'm too burned out from work tonight to really be helpfull, sorry.
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    You should just have them show each other their coochies. Every time I see a girl's coochie - I fall in love.

    Or more seriously, try drawing out a map of the trip - gas stations, road amusements, etc. Then populate those with characters. Then build some interactions with the characters which should lead to some interactions between the main characters. Then it might start flowing. Then start scratching out stuff ya don't need.

    Maybe try something other than a homosexual relationship - art films seem to be nothing but homosexual relationships. They are like kids who all dress alike yet think they are so different.

    If not...

    Do the girls already know they are gay? Are they bi-curious? Are they bi-confused? Rebound relationship or the beginnings of a solid one? Fling?
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    Default Re: Aigh!! This sucks so hard!!

    Writing under a deadline is always tough. It's too bad you can't just put it away and come back later - always works for my writers block. You know the only way to get past the writers block is to keep writing something....until it comes unstuck! Good luck!

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    Nothing says love like haveing a woman get a hint of a unknown secret that the male holds close to himself that he opens up and tells her.

    Or ninjas.

    I'd throw ninjas in there.
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    Default Re: Aigh!! This sucks so hard!!

    I'm in a simliar situation where I have to do something by a deadline. the good news is that it's a deadline, it will be done no matter what by tomorrow. Good luck!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deogol
    Or more seriously, try drawing out a map of the trip - gas stations, road amusements, etc. Then populate those with characters. Then build some interactions with the characters which should lead to some interactions between the main characters. Then it might start flowing. Then start scratching out stuff ya don't need.
    That's a great idea. I'm going to do that! Thanks!

    And this isn't your typical lesbian art flick, I promise. I can't go into more detail - you never know who might be reading - but it's got a nice twist to it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lilithmorrigan
    Have 3 dragqueens show up and dance for them and ask for a fix for their purple bus.
    Don't forget the ping pong balls...
    Quote Originally Posted by Mastridonicus
    I'd throw ninjas in there.
    Better yet, the love between a female pirate and ninja, and the obstacles they face together trying to create new race of ninjapirates without sperm.

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    Oh! You need some rude truckers in the rest station, to provoke some knight in shining armor tendencies. Either that, or cops.
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    ^^^ Sweet! I love all the Billy Jack movies like this.

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