INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (10293,1,'2012-04-04 15:52:42','2012-04-04 22:52:42','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A Script Frenzy, that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong>Blake Snyder </strong>in his book<em><strong> Save the Cat.  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that I\'ve had one \"in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and Save the Cat).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off the Frenzy.  Originally, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeeshop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI then stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.  Because I was overanalyzing The Formula.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nrest of april\r\n\r\n****\r\n\r\nPsst. pass it on for the month of April and lusty month of May? or somewhere on site?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-15','','','2012-04-04 15:52:42','2012-04-04 22:52:42','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(10294,1,'2012-04-04 15:57:59','2012-04-04 22:57:59','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A Script Frenzy, that is.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong>Blake Snyder </strong>in his book<em><strong> Save the Cat.  </strong></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and Save the Cat).\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off the Frenzy.  Originally, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeeshop.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n(She really did cry.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd so . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI AM OFF!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSort of.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI then stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.  Because I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling notes and worrying about my self-imposed challenge.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI  woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of Play.  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my dear?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI talk to myself often.  Do not be al\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nrest of april\n\n****\n\nPsst. pass it on for the month of April and lusty month of May? or somewhere on site?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-16','','','2012-04-04 15:57:59','2012-04-04 22:57:59','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(10296,1,'2012-04-04 15:58:59','2012-04-04 22:58:59','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A Script Frenzy, that is.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong>Blake Snyder </strong>in his book<em><strong> Save the Cat.  </strong></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and Save the Cat).\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off the Frenzy.  Originally, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeeshop.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n(She really did cry.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd so . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI AM OFF!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSort of.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI then stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.  Because I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling notes and worrying about my self-imposed challenge.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of Play.  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my dear?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI\'ve decided that I\'m going on an exploratory  road trip.  I\'ll snag a map for the retu\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nrest of april\n\n****\n\nPsst. pass it on for the month of April and lusty month of May? or somewhere on site?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-18','','','2012-04-04 15:58:59','2012-04-04 22:58:59','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(10295,1,'2012-04-04 15:58:28','2012-04-04 22:58:28','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A Script Frenzy, that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong>Blake Snyder </strong>in his book<em><strong> Save the Cat.  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and Save the Cat).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off the Frenzy.  Originally, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeeshop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI then stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.  Because I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling notes and worrying about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of Play.  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my dear?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nrest of april\r\n\r\n****\r\n\r\nPsst. pass it on for the month of April and lusty month of May? or somewhere on site?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-17','','','2012-04-04 15:58:28','2012-04-04 22:58:28','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(10297,1,'2012-04-04 15:59:14','2012-04-04 22:59:14','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A Script Frenzy, that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong>Blake Snyder </strong>in his book<em><strong> Save the Cat.  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and Save the Cat).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off the Frenzy.  Originally, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeeshop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI then stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.  Because I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling notes and worrying about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of Play.  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my dear?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that I\'m going on an exploratory  road trip.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nrest of april\r\n\r\n****\r\n\r\nPsst. pass it on for the month of April and lusty month of May? or somewhere on site?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-19','','','2012-04-04 15:59:14','2012-04-04 22:59:14','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(10298,1,'2012-04-04 15:59:14','2012-04-04 22:59:14','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A Script Frenzy, that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong>Blake Snyder </strong>in his book<em><strong> Save the Cat.  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and Save the Cat).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off the Frenzy.  Originally, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeeshop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI then stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.  Because I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling notes and worrying about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of Play.  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my dear?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that I\'m going on an exploratory  road trip.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nrest of april\r\n\r\n****\r\n\r\nPsst. pass it on for the month of April and lusty month of May? or somewhere on site?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-20','','','2012-04-04 15:59:14','2012-04-04 22:59:14','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(10299,1,'2012-04-04 15:59:30','2012-04-04 22:59:30','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A Script Frenzy, that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong>Blake Snyder </strong>in his book<em><strong> Save the Cat.  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and Save the Cat).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off the Frenzy.  Originally, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeeshop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI then stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.  Because I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling notes and worrying about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of Play.  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my dear?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that I\'m going on an exploratory  road trip.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nplease be patient for rest of april.  photos etc.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nrest of april\r\n\r\n****\r\n\r\nPsst. pass it on for the month of April and lusty month of May? or somewhere on site?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-21','','','2012-04-04 15:59:30','2012-04-04 22:59:30','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-21/',0,'revision','',0),(10300,1,'2012-04-04 20:05:12','2012-04-05 03:05:12','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <strong><em><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Cat</a></em></strong>).\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n(She really did cry.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd so . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI AM OFF!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSort of.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n**********\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-22','','','2012-04-04 20:05:12','2012-04-05 03:05:12','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-22/',0,'revision','',0),(10301,1,'2012-04-04 20:05:16','2012-04-05 03:05:16','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <strong><em><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Cat</a></em></strong>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-23','','','2012-04-04 20:05:16','2012-04-05 03:05:16','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-23/',0,'revision','',0),(10302,1,'2012-04-04 20:05:16','2012-04-05 03:05:16','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <strong><em><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Cat</a></em></strong>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-24','','','2012-04-04 20:05:16','2012-04-05 03:05:16','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-24/',0,'revision','',0),(10303,1,'2012-04-04 20:05:32','2012-04-05 03:05:32','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <strong><em><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Cat</a></em></strong>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-25','','','2012-04-04 20:05:32','2012-04-05 03:05:32','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-25/',0,'revision','',0),(10304,1,'2012-04-04 20:05:32','2012-04-05 03:05:32','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.  You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <strong><em><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Cat</a></em></strong>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-26','','','2012-04-04 20:05:32','2012-04-05 03:05:32','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-26/',0,'revision','',0),(10307,1,'2012-04-04 20:07:34','2012-04-05 03:07:34','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-29','','','2012-04-04 20:07:34','2012-04-05 03:07:34','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-29/',0,'revision','',0),(10305,1,'2012-04-04 20:07:10','2012-04-05 03:07:10','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <strong><em><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Cat</a></em></strong>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-27','','','2012-04-04 20:07:10','2012-04-05 03:07:10','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-27/',0,'revision','',0),(10306,1,'2012-04-04 20:07:10','2012-04-05 03:07:10','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <strong><em><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Cat</a></em></strong>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-28','','','2012-04-04 20:07:10','2012-04-05 03:07:10','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-28/',0,'revision','',0),(10308,1,'2012-04-04 20:07:34','2012-04-05 03:07:34','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-30','','','2012-04-04 20:07:34','2012-04-05 03:07:34','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-30/',0,'revision','',0),(10310,1,'2012-04-04 20:11:10','2012-04-05 03:11:10','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n(She really did cry.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd so . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI AM OFF!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSort of.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n**********\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-32','','','2012-04-04 20:11:10','2012-04-05 03:11:10','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-32/',0,'revision','',0),(10309,1,'2012-04-04 20:08:06','2012-04-05 03:08:06','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.   I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-31','','','2012-04-04 20:08:06','2012-04-05 03:08:06','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-31/',0,'revision','',0),(10311,1,'2012-04-04 20:11:22','2012-04-05 03:11:22','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-33','','','2012-04-04 20:11:22','2012-04-05 03:11:22','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-33/',0,'revision','',0),(10312,1,'2012-04-04 20:11:22','2012-04-05 03:11:22','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-34','','','2012-04-04 20:11:22','2012-04-05 03:11:22','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-34/',0,'revision','',0),(10314,1,'2012-04-04 20:13:17','2012-04-05 03:13:17','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n(She really did cry.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd so . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI AM OFF!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSort of.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n**********\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-36','','','2012-04-04 20:13:17','2012-04-05 03:13:17','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-36/',0,'revision','',0),(10313,1,'2012-04-04 20:12:13','2012-04-05 03:12:13','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-35','','','2012-04-04 20:12:13','2012-04-05 03:12:13','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-35/',0,'revision','',0),(10315,1,'2012-04-04 20:14:23','2012-04-05 03:14:23','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10275\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10277\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/?attachment_id=10278\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-37','','','2012-04-04 20:14:23','2012-04-05 03:14:23','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-37/',0,'revision','',0),(10316,1,'2012-04-04 23:50:03','2012-04-05 06:50:03','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat!:  The Last Book on Screenwriting You\'ll Ever Need.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat!</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd I slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for May\'s return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-autosave','','','2012-04-04 23:50:03','2012-04-05 06:50:03','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(10317,1,'2012-04-04 20:14:23','2012-04-05 03:14:23','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-38','','','2012-04-04 20:14:23','2012-04-05 03:14:23','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-38/',0,'revision','',0),(10322,1,'2012-04-04 20:17:30','2012-04-05 03:17:30','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-43','','','2012-04-04 20:17:30','2012-04-05 03:17:30','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-43/',0,'revision','',0),(10318,1,'2012-04-04 20:16:28','2012-04-05 03:16:28','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-39','','','2012-04-04 20:16:28','2012-04-05 03:16:28','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-39/',0,'revision','',0),(10319,1,'2012-04-04 20:16:29','2012-04-05 03:16:29','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 11o.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-40','','','2012-04-04 20:16:29','2012-04-05 03:16:29','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-40/',0,'revision','',0),(10320,1,'2012-04-04 20:17:03','2012-04-05 03:17:03','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-41','','','2012-04-04 20:17:03','2012-04-05 03:17:03','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-41/',0,'revision','',0),(10333,1,'2012-04-04 20:23:36','2012-04-05 03:23:36','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd I slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for May\'s return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-54','','','2012-04-04 20:23:36','2012-04-05 03:23:36','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-54/',0,'revision','',0),(10321,1,'2012-04-04 20:17:03','2012-04-05 03:17:03','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-42','','','2012-04-04 20:17:03','2012-04-05 03:17:03','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-42/',0,'revision','',0),(10323,1,'2012-04-04 20:17:30','2012-04-05 03:17:30','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-44','','','2012-04-04 20:17:30','2012-04-05 03:17:30','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-44/',0,'revision','',0),(10328,1,'2012-04-04 20:19:05','2012-04-05 03:19:05','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-49','','','2012-04-04 20:19:05','2012-04-05 03:19:05','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-49/',0,'revision','',0),(10324,1,'2012-04-04 20:17:51','2012-04-05 03:17:51','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-45','','','2012-04-04 20:17:51','2012-04-05 03:17:51','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-45/',0,'revision','',0),(10325,1,'2012-04-04 20:17:51','2012-04-05 03:17:51','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this  Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-46','','','2012-04-04 20:17:51','2012-04-05 03:17:51','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-46/',0,'revision','',0),(10326,1,'2012-04-04 20:18:39','2012-04-05 03:18:39','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-47','','','2012-04-04 20:18:39','2012-04-05 03:18:39','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-47/',0,'revision','',0),(10327,1,'2012-04-04 20:18:39','2012-04-05 03:18:39','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (and I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-48','','','2012-04-04 20:18:39','2012-04-05 03:18:39','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-48/',0,'revision','',0),(10329,1,'2012-04-04 20:19:05','2012-04-05 03:19:05','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-50','','','2012-04-04 20:19:05','2012-04-05 03:19:05','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-50/',0,'revision','',0),(10330,1,'2012-04-04 20:20:52','2012-04-05 03:20:52','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd I slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-51','','','2012-04-04 20:20:52','2012-04-05 03:20:52','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-51/',0,'revision','',0),(10331,1,'2012-04-04 20:20:52','2012-04-05 03:20:52','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd I slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for the return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-52','','','2012-04-04 20:20:52','2012-04-05 03:20:52','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-52/',0,'revision','',0),(10332,1,'2012-04-04 20:23:36','2012-04-05 03:23:36','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd I slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for May\'s return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-53','','','2012-04-04 20:23:36','2012-04-05 03:23:36','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-53/',0,'revision','',0),(10334,1,'2012-04-04 23:49:49','2012-04-05 06:49:49','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat!:  The Last Book on Screenwriting You\'ll Ever Need.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat!</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd I slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for May\'s return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-55','','','2012-04-04 23:49:49','2012-04-05 06:49:49','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-55/',0,'revision','',0),(10335,1,'2012-04-04 23:49:49','2012-04-05 06:49:49','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat!:  The Last Book on Screenwriting You\'ll Ever Need.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat!</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and an eensie weensie problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd I slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for May\'s return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-56','','','2012-04-04 23:49:49','2012-04-05 06:49:49','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-56/',0,'revision','',0),(10336,1,'2012-04-04 23:51:25','2012-04-05 06:51:25','<a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10260\" title=\"sf_08_logo\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sf_08_logo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nIn my <a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/21/psst-pass-it-on-because-love-is-in-the-air/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psst!  Pass It On!</strong></a> post the other day, I announced that I was about to whirl myself into a frenzy.  A <strong><a href=\"http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Script Frenzy,</a></strong> that is.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI began on April 1st (I\'m not fooling!), and I will finish on April 30th.  I committed to write a full-length screenplay.  In 30 days.  Crazy, huh?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd even though that nifty little ticket to your left states \"100 pages\", I need to write 110.  Because I\'m following The Formula designed by <strong><a href=\"http://www.blakesnyder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Snyder</a> </strong>in his book<em><strong><a href=\"https://www.blakesnyder.com/zencart/\" target=\"_blank\"> Save the Cat!:  The Last Book on Screenwriting You\'ll Ever Need.</a>  </strong></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou\'re probably wondering, \"Formula?  Don\'t you just sit down and write?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat\'s what I used to think as well.  Until I discovered Blake\'s book.  And then I learned a thing or two.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWould you leave for a long road trip without a map?  Not unless you want to get lost.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt\'s the same thing with a screenplay.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>You better begin your writing journey with a solid outline that follows The Formula or you are going to wind up in Screenplay Timbuktu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou see, I\'ve never written a screenplay.  I\'ve always felt that \"I have one in me\".  It\'s always been \"a dream\".  But I\'ve never parked my tuckus on the couch and <em>started</em>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI needed a jump-start (thank you, Script Frenzy), and I needed a Screenwriting Bootcamp (thank you to both Script Frenzy\'s Writer\'s Resources and <em>Save the Cat!</em>).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy plan was moving along swimmingly when . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808000;\"><strong>Five days before The Frenzy I came down with The Flu.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSniffle, sniffle.  Cough, Cough.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere is an excerpt from last week\'s pity party:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em>How am I supposed to write with a fever, throbbing sinuses, and the inconvenient problem of not being able to stay awake for more than an hour at a stretch?!?!  </em></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSuck it up, buttercup!  The show must go on!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen my fever broke on Saturday, I was able to finish my outline.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe next morning, I dragged my pathetic, sniffly self to my computer and kicked off The Frenzy.  Originally for Day 1, I envisioned myself sitting inside a trendy, indie coffeehouse.  You know, like a real writer.  Instead, my ambiance was this:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-732/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-10276 alignnone\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo perk myself up, I surrounded myself with me lucky charms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-730/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10274\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10274\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-731/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10275\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd I slipped into my lucky t-shirt made for me by my Sissie.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-735/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10279\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere were other advantages to staying at home.  I would have never encountered this kind of inspiration and cuteness at the coffeehouse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-733/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10277\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10277\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/olympus-digital-camera-734/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10278\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/P4010019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out the first four pages of my script and promptly emailed them to my mother.  She laughed, she cried, it was better than <em>Cats.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(She really did cry.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd so . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI AM OFF!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSort of.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI cranked out another 4 pages on Day 2 but . . . .\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI stalled with only 2 pages on Day 3.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBecause I was overanalyzing The Formula.  In true neurotic writer fashion, I stayed up much too late scribbling ideas and worrying incessantly about my self-imposed challenge.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI woke up the next morning and remembered, \"Oh, yeah.  I\'m in The Year of <em>Play</em>!  Ummm....Perhaps you could approach this whole process <em>playfully,</em> my sweet?\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(I talk to myself often.  Do not be alarmed.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">I\'ve decided that my Script Frenzy journey will be an exploratory road trip.  I\'m going to follow my heart and see where it takes me.  Timbuktu sounds exotic and enticing.</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf I wind up writing the screenplay equivalent of <em>War and Peace</em>, so be it.  I\'ll snag a map for May\'s return trip of edits.  I\'ll eventually find my way home.  No big whoop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n**********\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you ever written a screenplay?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf so, please share any and all pearls of wisdom.  I have Beginner\'s Mind.  i.e., I\'m desperate for any and all advice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf not, do you have a screenplay \"inside you\"?  There\'s still time to play catch up with Script Frenzy, or you could always investigate <strong><a href=\"http://www.vikiking.com/products/book.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Jump-Starter Extraordinaire</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #13:  Script Frenzy! ','','inherit','open','open','','10259-revision-57','','','2012-04-04 23:51:25','2012-04-05 06:51:25','',10259,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/04/10259-revision-57/',0,'revision','',0),(10337,1,'2012-03-10 22:13:49','2012-03-11 05:13:49','[caption id=\"attachment_5461\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Dogs prefer Macs.\"]<a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/P5050015.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-5461\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/P5050015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\nHi, everybody!  It\'s Bella aka World\'s Most Precious Pooch.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI think my human, Michelle, reported not too long ago that I graduated summa cum laude from puppy preschool.  I guess this means that I\'m REALLY smart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nEvery night I watch Michelle type away at her computer on something that she calls a \"blog\".  Last night, I decided to hop on when she was \"indisposed\" to check things out.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI\'m not old enough to be a Late Bloomer, but I was really curious to investigate what all the other kids are drawn to these days:  facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHey,<strong><a href=\"http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/03/07/mark-zuckerberg-gets-a-dog-gives-it-a-facebook-page/\" target=\"_blank\"> if Zuckerberg\'s dog can have a page</a></strong>, why can\'t I?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd his dog is a purebred.  They can be a bit on the snooty side.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI am here to tell you that I am <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A</span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">m</span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">e</span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">r</span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">i</span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">c</span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">a</span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\'</span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">s</span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">D</span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">o</span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">g</span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">! </span></strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">RESCUES ROCK!!!</span></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCheck out my new page!  <strong><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/worlds.most.precious.pooch\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.facebook.com/worlds.most.precious.pooch</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWill you be my friend?','Day 220:  My Dog Hijacked My Computer','','inherit','open','open','','5457-revision-11','','','2012-03-10 22:13:49','2012-03-11 05:13:49','',5457,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/03/10/5457-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(10339,1,'2012-04-10 19:26:01','2012-04-11 02:26:01','Do we need more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually pin something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that makes my head feel like it\'s going to explode any second now.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI couldn\'t go out and play this weekend.  The Crud continued to hijack my immune system with a secondary sinus infection.  Bleck.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy mother suggested that I take a rain check on my playdate for','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision','','','2012-04-10 19:26:01','2012-04-11 02:26:01','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(10340,1,'2012-04-10 19:28:01','2012-04-11 02:28:01','Do we need more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually pin something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head feel like it\'s going to explode any second now.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSo I pinned John.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI couldn\'t go out and play this weekend.  The Crud continued to hijack my immune system with a secondary sinus infection.  Bleck.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy mother suggested that I take a rain check on my playdate for','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-2','','','2012-04-10 19:28:01','2012-04-11 02:28:01','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(10341,1,'2012-04-10 19:28:29','2012-04-11 02:28:29','Do we need more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually pin something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head feel like it\'s going to explode any second now.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSo I pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<div style=\'padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px\'><a href=\'http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\' target=\'_blank\'><img src=\'https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\' border=\'0\' width=\'600\' height =\'515\'/></a></div><div style=\'float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\'><p style=\'font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\'>Source: <a style=\'text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\' href=\'http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\'>theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\'text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\' href=\'http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\' target=\'_blank\'>Michelle</a> on <a style=\'text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\' href=\'http://pinterest.com\' target=\'_blank\'>Pinterest</a></p></div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI couldn\'t go out and play this weekend.  The Crud continued to hijack my immune system with a secondary sinus infection.  Bleck.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy mother suggested that I take a rain check on my playdate for','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-3','','','2012-04-10 19:28:29','2012-04-11 02:28:29','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(10342,1,'2012-04-10 19:38:52','2012-04-11 02:38:52','Do we need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually pin something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head feel like it\'s going to explode any second now.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI pinned John.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\n\n</div>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 10-15 people \"repinned\" me, and 10-15 more liked me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIn another nanosecond, I was overcome with Pinterest Peer Pressure.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDo I havta?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  </em>\n\nI couldn\'t go out and play this weekend.  The Crud continued to hijack my immune system with a secondary sinus infection.  Bleck.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy mother suggested that I take a rain check on my playdate for','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-4','','','2012-04-10 19:38:52','2012-04-11 02:38:52','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(10343,1,'2012-04-10 19:47:52','2012-04-11 02:47:52','Do we need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually pin something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head feel like it\'s going to explode any second now.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI pinned John.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\n\n</div>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 10-15 people \"repinned\" me, and 10-15 more liked me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIn another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDo I havta?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Hell, no!  Now talk about a monumental waste o\' time!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd so I\n\nI couldn\'t go out and play this weekend.  The Crud continued to hijack my immune system with a secondary sinus infection.  Bleck.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy mother suggested that I take a rain check on my playdate for','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-5','','','2012-04-10 19:47:52','2012-04-11 02:47:52','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(10344,1,'2012-04-10 20:17:54','2012-04-11 03:17:54','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second now.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI pinned John.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\n\n</div>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 10-15 people \"repinned\" me, and 10-15 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIn another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDo I havta?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Hell, no!  <strong><a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Simms</a></strong> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  and since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDon\'t expect much, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAlthough I promise that you won\'t be disappointed here.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-6','','','2012-04-10 20:17:54','2012-04-11 03:17:54','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(10348,1,'2012-04-10 20:21:40','2012-04-11 03:21:40','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI pinned John.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\n\n</div>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDo I havta?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Hell, no!  <strong><a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Simms</a></strong> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  and since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDon\'t expect much, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-10','','','2012-04-10 20:21:40','2012-04-11 03:21:40','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(10345,1,'2012-04-10 20:18:43','2012-04-11 03:18:43','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second now.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 10-15 people \"repinned\" me, and 10-15 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <strong><a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Simms</a></strong> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  and since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-7','','','2012-04-10 20:18:43','2012-04-11 03:18:43','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(10346,1,'2012-04-10 20:18:50','2012-04-11 03:18:50','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second now.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 10-15 people \"repinned\" me, and 10-15 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <strong><a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Simms</a></strong> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  and since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-8','','','2012-04-10 20:18:50','2012-04-11 03:18:50','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(10347,1,'2012-04-10 20:19:35','2012-04-11 03:19:35','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 10-15 people \"repinned\" me, and 10-15 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <strong><a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Simms</a></strong> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  and since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-9','','','2012-04-10 20:19:35','2012-04-11 03:19:35','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(10350,1,'2012-04-10 20:23:30','2012-04-11 03:23:30','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI pinned John.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\n\n</div>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDo I havta?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Hell, no!  <strong><a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Simms</a></strong> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  and since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDon\'t expect much, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-12','','','2012-04-10 20:23:30','2012-04-11 03:23:30','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(10349,1,'2012-04-10 20:21:52','2012-04-11 03:21:52','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <strong><a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Simms</a></strong> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  and since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-11','','','2012-04-10 20:21:52','2012-04-11 03:21:52','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(10351,1,'2012-04-10 20:25:01','2012-04-11 03:25:01','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI pinned John.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\n\n</div>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDo I havta?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  and since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDon\'t expect much, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-13','','','2012-04-10 20:25:01','2012-04-11 03:25:01','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(10352,1,'2012-04-10 20:28:18','2012-04-11 03:28:18','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI pinned John.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\n\n</div>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDo I havta?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDon\'t expect much from my Pintere, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*****\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-14','','','2012-04-10 20:28:18','2012-04-11 03:28:18','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(10353,1,'2012-04-10 20:28:46','2012-04-11 03:28:46','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my Pinterest page, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-15','','','2012-04-10 20:28:46','2012-04-11 03:28:46','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(10354,1,'2012-04-10 20:29:11','2012-04-11 03:29:11','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my Pinterest page, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-16','','','2012-04-10 20:29:11','2012-04-11 03:29:11','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(10355,1,'2012-04-10 21:39:06','2012-04-11 04:39:06','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/shardsofblue/7066410885/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10366\" title=\"7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>Do we honestly need any more social media time vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media time vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is about to make my head explode.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  The Parental Unit reads this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the scene  of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.  (Be still, my groins!)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> </span>(Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope)<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow . . . . Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-autosave','','','2012-04-10 21:39:06','2012-04-11 04:39:06','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(10356,1,'2012-04-10 20:29:39','2012-04-11 03:29:39','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my Pinterest page, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-17','','','2012-04-10 20:29:39','2012-04-11 03:29:39','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(10357,1,'2012-04-10 20:35:16','2012-04-11 03:35:16','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDay I Joined Pinterest:  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFirst Pin:  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd that\'s when all hell broke loose.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nJavier, if you or your clone (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my Pinterest page, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-18','','','2012-04-10 20:35:16','2012-04-11 03:35:16','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(10358,1,'2012-04-10 20:38:31','2012-04-11 03:38:31','Do we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my Pinterest page, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-19','','','2012-04-10 20:38:31','2012-04-11 03:38:31','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(10359,1,'2012-04-10 20:39:08','2012-04-11 03:39:08','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my Pinterest page, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-20','','','2012-04-10 20:39:08','2012-04-11 03:39:08','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(10494,1,'2012-05-02 15:57:37','2012-05-02 22:57:37','','test','','inherit','open','open','','10493-revision','','','2012-05-02 15:57:37','2012-05-02 22:57:37','',10493,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/05/02/10493-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(10361,1,'2012-04-10 20:41:59','2012-04-11 03:41:59','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since  I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my Pinterest page, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-21','','','2012-04-10 20:41:59','2012-04-11 03:41:59','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-21/',0,'revision','',0),(10362,1,'2012-04-10 20:44:47','2012-04-11 03:44:47','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd the Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my Pinterest page, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-22','','','2012-04-10 20:44:47','2012-04-11 03:44:47','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-22/',0,'revision','',0),(10363,1,'2012-04-10 20:45:03','2012-04-11 03:45:03','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my Pinterest page, my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-23','','','2012-04-10 20:45:03','2012-04-11 03:45:03','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-23/',0,'revision','',0),(10364,1,'2012-04-10 21:03:36','2012-04-11 04:03:36','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo we honestly need any more social media vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is making my head ready to explode any second.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-24','','','2012-04-10 21:03:36','2012-04-11 04:03:36','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-24/',0,'revision','',0),(10365,1,'2012-04-10 21:04:40','2012-04-11 04:04:40','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo we honestly need any more social media time vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media time vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is about to make my head explode.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> (Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope) <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-25','','','2012-04-10 21:04:40','2012-04-11 04:04:40','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-25/',0,'revision','',0),(10366,1,'2012-04-10 21:12:13','2012-04-11 04:12:13','','7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d','','inherit','open','open','','7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d','','','2012-04-10 21:12:13','2012-04-11 04:12:13','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(10367,1,'2012-04-10 21:07:32','2012-04-11 04:07:32','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo we honestly need any more social media time vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media time vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is about to make my head explode.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> </span>(Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope)<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-26','','','2012-04-10 21:07:32','2012-04-11 04:07:32','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-26/',0,'revision','',0),(10368,1,'2012-04-10 21:13:10','2012-04-11 04:13:10','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/shardsofblue/7066410885/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10366\" title=\"7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>Do we honestly need any more social media time vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media time vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is about to make my head explode.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> </span>(Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope)<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow.  Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-27','','','2012-04-10 21:13:10','2012-04-11 04:13:10','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-27/',0,'revision','',0),(10369,1,'2012-04-10 21:14:41','2012-04-11 04:14:41','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/shardsofblue/7066410885/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10366\" title=\"7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>Do we honestly need any more social media time vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media time vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is about to make my head explode.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  My mother and father read this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> </span>(Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope)<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow . . . . Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-28','','','2012-04-10 21:14:41','2012-04-11 04:14:41','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-28/',0,'revision','',0),(10370,1,'2012-04-10 21:24:07','2012-04-11 04:24:07','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/shardsofblue/7066410885/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10366\" title=\"7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>Do we honestly need any more social media time vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media time vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is about to make my head explode.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  The Parental Unit reads this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the line of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> </span>(Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope)<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow . . . . Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-29','','','2012-04-10 21:24:07','2012-04-11 04:24:07','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-29/',0,'revision','',0),(10371,1,'2012-04-10 21:38:51','2012-04-11 04:38:51','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/shardsofblue/7066410885/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10366\" title=\"7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>Do we honestly need any more social media time vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media time vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is about to make my head explode.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  The Parental Unit reads this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the scene  of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.  (Be still, my groins!)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> </span>(Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope)<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow . . . . Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-30','','','2012-04-10 21:38:51','2012-04-11 04:38:51','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-30/',0,'revision','',0),(10372,1,'2012-04-10 21:39:01','2012-04-11 04:39:01','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/shardsofblue/7066410885/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10366\" title=\"7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d\" src=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/7066410885_f0f9e5ee5d-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>Do we honestly need any more social media time vacuums?  DO WE???\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My First Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Valori:</strong>  July 2nd, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>My Second Pinterest \"Invitation\" from Yovani:</strong>  December 6th, 2011.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Day I Joined Pinterest:</strong>  March 20th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>First Pin:</strong>  April 7th, 2012.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>And that\'s when all hell broke loose.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn Saturday morning, I came across a John Lennon quote.  Me Lifetime Beatles Fan.  Me Love Beatles Wisdom.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI did what came naturally.  I posted on facebook.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd then I remembered, \"Oh, yeah!  I created a Pinterest account a few weeks back.  Maybe I could actually <em>pin</em> something.  Because I need another social media time vacuum like I need this blasted sinus infection that is about to make my head explode.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHumbug.  The Pinterest Scrooge had spoken.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI pinned John.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://pinterest.com/pin/109493834660614126/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/109493834660614126_VUTB8klm_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" border=\"0\" /></a></div>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\">Source: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://theclothspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/john-lennon-quote-happy.jpg/\">theclothspring.com</a> via <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle</a> on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;\" href=\"http://pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Pinterest floodgates opened.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWithin what seemed like a nanosecond, 15-20 people \"repinned\" me, and 5 more \"liked\" me.  They really liked me.  (Note to self:  See if Sally Field Pins.)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #008000;\"><strong>In another nanosecond, I was overcome with self-imposed Pinterest Peer Pressure.</strong></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>What will people think if I\'ve only posted one pin?  How lame is that?  My blog address is up there on my profile!  I need to represent!  Everyone else is doing it!  </em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDo I havta?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yes!  You havta!  Be social!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut I\'m social in Real Life!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That doesn\'t count.  This is 2012.  Look how long you fought facebook, and now it\'s like brushing your teeth, but more entertaining.  As with anything, you will adapt.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDoes this mean I have to sign up for Google+ as well?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Hell, no!  <a href=\"http://createasfolk.com/how-to-manage-your-time-with-social-media-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laura Simms</strong></a> already told you that you don\'t havta.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWell . . . . your offers sounds tempting, but I can\'t this weekend.  I have <strong><a href=\"http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/05/playdate-13-script-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">24 days left to finish my screenplay,</a></strong> and I need to figure out a playdate that will be kind and gentle to my sinuses.  Woe is me.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>That\'s easy.  Play with yourself.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYo!  The Parental Unit reads this blog!  Watch it!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Yo!  Get your mind out of the gutter!  I meant that Pinterest is a playdate with yourself.  Sheesh!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOh.  Sorry.  I watched <em>Eat Pray Love</em> with Javier Bardem last night, and I\'m a bit . . . . distracted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd this is how I came to I create My Online Vision Board via the site we know and love and hate as Pinterest.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince many people refer to Pinterest as an Online Vision Board, and since <a href=\"http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vision Boards</strong> </a>are said to manifest into Real Life,  AND since I was \"distracted\", I slapped Javier up there faster than you can say, <strong><a href=\"http://www.sodahead.com/fun/better-actor-javier-bardem-or-jeremy-renner/question-2482187/comment-78538551/\" target=\"_blank\">\"It\'s time, darling.\"</a></strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLadies, do you know the scene  of which I speak?  Be still, my heart.  (Be still, my groins!)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Javier, if you or your clone</strong></span> </span>(Listen, I\'m the last person in the world that wants to break up you and Penelope)<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>entered into my Real Life via my Online Vision Board, it would <em>always</em> be time, darling.</strong></span></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDon\'t expect much from my <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinterest page,</strong></a> my friends.  My boards and pins are growing slowly.  Although I promise that you won\'t be disappointed <a href=\"https://pinterest.com/latebloomer365/el-caramelo-de-ojo/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.</strong> </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCan I let you in on my latest dirty little secret?  Pinterest is the best peer pressure to which I have ever succumbed.  Shhhhh.....\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow . . . . Back to that screenplay!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*****\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAre you a Pinterest Aficionado?  Do tell!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Playdate #14:  Pinterest Peer Pressure','','inherit','open','open','','10338-revision-31','','','2012-04-10 21:39:01','2012-04-11 04:39:01','',10338,'http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2012/04/10/10338-revision-31/',0,'revision','',0),