THE ONE.

I've been working nonstop on this beast. I rewrote 35 pages in one night, after working a full day. I've got 2 days left, and I'm so close I can see the end. It's so beautiful, I'm crying. And I've done so much in just over a week.

It's at the same level as the others, but the scale is smaller and the characters are so much better. I can visibly see the difference in quality between the characters in both. That was the big problem I had in the last couple scripts. I still have to send it to the readers, but I think this may be the reason this script has been such a problem from day 1.

I brainstormed ideas at work for weeks, and I came up with six pages worth of good shit. Then I lost the papers and couldn't for the life of me find them. I ended up writing it by memory in a single frenzied manic night. My fingers typed for five straight hours, no pauses, breaks, or anything. And I got all of the good stuff. The rest was trashed. I found the sheets and looked at them and found that I actually got the lion's share of it.

And then, when I looked for Shogun, to enter it into this contest, I couldn't find my latest draft. Rather than rewriting it, I opted to gun it on this script. Well, I found the latest draft of Shogun, and I'm going to enter it as well, but this is my fucking flagship. It's absolutely gorgeous, and all of the beats are so tightly connected.

The tattoo may have been the best thing I've ever gotten. Nearly three years later, it's gotten me far. I am a lion. HEAR ME ROAR.