After a focused weekend in I performed a deep analysis of my script of Dig Down and then started reading and analyzing other scripts, I unfortunately had to return to my regular schedule. That included work for a good portion of the day.
Despite not being able to devote this chunk of time to revisions, in which I was already under the gun and down to just two weeks left to re-submit, I was still filling up all of my free time with working on the script. It was the first thing I would work on when I woke up, as I tried to put in as close to an hour of rewrites before work, and when I got home, this was the focus.
The only problem was work wasn’t the only obstacle that week.
My writer’s group met on Monday night, and although there was a storm coming that prevented me from attending in person, I managed to connect online and got a couple of pages down in the hour we set aside from writing. That storm was the big one for the year, so I worked from home the next day, so I didn’t have to worry about spending time on my commute, short as it was.
While the storm first helped out with the rewrite process, it soon became a huge hinderance. My house has a high water table, and as the snow began to melt, it just kept coming into my basement. I set up a bucket where the biggest leak into the house was coming from, and even though it could hold more than five gallons, I was down in the basement emptying it out every twenty minutes when I was home. And this doesn’t include the time I had to spend with the wet vac to remove all the water that had spilled over while I was at work.
Mornings were getting tougher to face as the week went on. What started out as me having concerns for how far along I was coming along turned into questioning whether I had the energy to get out of bed to keep up with the water in the basement and still put in some time to work on the script. Looking back, its not surprising that I had doubts about the new scenes I was looking to add to flesh out characters a bit more as well as the ending I was revamping for the script when I was exhausted from having to empty out a bucket of water 3-4 times an hour when I was home.
A full week was down since my phone consultation to review the Dig Down script, and while I wouldn’t say my progress was limited, I definitely felt like I was behind. Thankfully this was still mid-March, which made my next decision easier, which was to commit the weekend to working on rewrites.
I’ll get into how that went, next time.