So since I missed NaNo this year, I’m considering doing Script Frenzy. I’ve written a script before, actually it was the very first full length thing that I did write. I was about 14, it was called Saving Amy, and it was destined to be a Lifetime Movie Network film. However, someone (coughmybrothercough) asked to borrow the script and subsequently misplaced it. I was not a happy Miki. Since it was 10 years ago, I think I’d be fine in trying to rewrite Saving Amy. I mean, at this point, I’m back to just having the premise in my head, since I don’t have anything written down any more (copies, people, copies!).
I’m caught between that and this idea my new apartment has been giving me. It seems like everything and anything that could go wrong has been here. Not that I’m complaining or anything, I’m just happy I have a place to live, and in a way I think it’s great. I mean, none of it is terribly serious, and it’s such great fodder for stories. Especially the one that’s been brewing in my head.
I’m thinking a modern day version of the Odd Couple crossed with The Money Pit. Our two main characters would be college grads, one of whom has recently been told by his well to do parents that it’s time he stands on his own two feet and starts paying his own way—right as he’s getting ready to start grad school. The other is trying to figure out what to do with his life and how to be a grown up (even though he’s been done with school for a few years).
And because I’m me, I’ve already got a visual of each character. As Jake (the guy in his late 20s who still acts like a teen), I see, rather predictably, Seth Rogen. And as Anthony, our gent in his early 20s who is trying to figure out how he is going to be able to afford living on his own and pay for grad school at the same time, we have Robert Pattison. Course, I’m not thinking the suave and debonair Pattison from the cover of GQ, or even the Edward Cullen or Tyler Hawkins versions. Hell, I’m not even thinking Diggory. I am thinking of Daniel Gale. Geeky, awkward, bumbling, not obviously attractive, thick glasses, prudish, and extremely quiet and reserved.
Honestly, either of these roles could be played by just about anyone, but those were just the two people who came to mind as I’ve been brainstorming.
So whether I chose to rewrite Saving Amy, or start in on this as yet unnamed endeavor, it should be an interesting April.
