Plucky

So, I watched Cameron Crowe"s movie Elizabethtown the other night. Although the reviews weren't very good, I found that I really liked this movie. The blurb about the movie described Kirsten Dunst's character as 'plucky'.

Don't we all wish that we could be 'plucky'? The kind of person that everyone loves hanging out with, the person who always has something witty and fun to say, is deep without being preachy, and is 'hard to forget, but impossible to remember'.

Well, not everyone is plucky. Plucky sometimes toes the line with annoying...with annoying usually winning out. But we all have moments of being plucky...especially while on vacation or around people we don't know.

I guess since I'm usually around people I know and won't be on vacation until July, I have months of being non-plucky. Hmmm...maybe I'll just have to write something in which the character I play could be considered plucky. Speaking of which, I just finished my first screenplay [that was a long lead in, huh?]. The first draft is being looked over by some friends for feedback and at that point, I'll start preproduction. HA! It feels so cool to say that. I'm just going to marinate on that for a little bit.

New Direction

Well, I'm feeling pretty good about myself.

I just finished my first screenplay.

I had the idea, wrote it all out in a night and have been proofing, moving things around and rewriting, rewriting and rewriting some more. I took a few days away and will look it over again with fresh eyes before sending it out the friends for their opinions. Hopefully they won't be too harsh.

Aside from that, the weekend is here and it's time for a little road trip. It's nice to get away and refresh one's senses with something new and beautiful. I'm looking forward to it. Open road, here I come...hmmm sounds like another idea for a screenplay...