First, the Pomodoro update. I am currently at 13 Pomodoros for the month, so I am behind the pace, but I have every confidence that I'll be able to catch up.
Next, so I've been having some trouble with this script I've been writing. I've got this character whom I love (he's sort of like a gay Micky Stone from Hustle), but he doesn't have a whole lot to do in the script until the end, besides drop the occasional bon mot. So, I was having trouble sleeping on Thursday night and I started thumbing through Script magazine and they were talking about editing and cutting stuff and it hit me - I had to cut that character. I had debated cutting one of the other main charcters, but I couldn't make it work. I changed the gender of a different main charcater, and she ended up working better, but something was still off. The answer was always cutting this main character.
As soon as I made the decision to cut him, everything fell into place. Now my two central characters, have actual arcs and themes. The script (once the changes are made) will be a gijillion times better than it was going to be with the changes that I was planning as late as Wednesday of this week. The whole script just makes more sense and will move so much better.
As a result, this will probably take the rest of the tomatoes this month to finish.
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