my writing workshop last nite was interesting. I guess I've always been very pragmatic. I want to learn more about writing, editing to get my manuscripts into sell-able shape. The others are writing large. I mean writing LARGE - big projects that they hope they'll star in.
Mr. cute Canadian actor showed up in white shorts and flip flops. He had taken a shower and smelled of soap. Everyone at the table watched him as he kicked off his flip flops, sat beside me and starting drumming the desk with his pen. i snuck numerous looks at his hairy blonde legs. he was full of energy. he wanted to talk about something, but the workshop has a rule that we don't talk about our personal lives. It's all about the writing, not using the workshop to land a part or find a job.
So during our first 'writing exercise' we had to pair up to write some dialogue. the funny thing was that I was supposed to write a declaration of love, and Mr. actor was supposed to write a declaration of hate. When read together, it was supposed to be an experiment in range and it went something like this:
Me: Hey.
Him: Phuck you
Me: I wanted to tell you that I love you. I mean that.
Him: Do you want to suck my cock? I think you want to suck me off.
Me (startled but reading on): You mean the world to me. I want to hug you.
Him: You make me sick. I want to kick your face in.
Me: Come here. Let me love you.
and on and on for 10 minutes.
It was a painful exercise and I was close to tears as his lines were really mean, but mr. actor kept in character until time was up and then he hugged me and said, "Sorry man. that was excellent."
when i got home, i saw my friend's Blog (see
Leaving Los Angeles) and she was pissing me off because she's getting all nostaligic about going home. All she wants to do is to live near her parents and... get this.... take up with her old high school boy friend who is now divorced, with one kid, selling lawn sprinklers.
But oh no, that's not the worse part.... she turned down a job offer in L.A. She had applied for this job and it was a long shot, but they made her an offer - $60k a year! She turns it down. SHe happily tells the recruiter that she's moving home.
I am so sorry to be a bitch, but I know where she will be 12 months from now. Back in Oklahoma, living with her high school boyfriend (who she went out with for all of 2 months), fighting and screaming because he's a boring, unimaginative lump. She's always been the hypocritical crab, wanting to do stuff in L.A., but never getting off the couch. SHe's addicted to "Three's Company" re-runs. She is a lazy slug. And part of her slug personality is that she hates kids. She may think she's getting a hometown stud to phuck her, but when his 5 year old starts screaming, she'll lose it. LOOOOOOOSE IT.
