This week, I am trying to conserve my mental energy for a really stressful workweek, so I have not been getting up to write. But my body is insisting that I get up anyway. So far, my attempts to sleep in an extra hour have met with failure.
I am still reading my new book on craft, The Scene Book, and today came to a part where the author suggested trying to write out a favorite scene from a movie as prose to practice getting the description, dialogue, and action right and balanced without the pressure of having to make something up as you go along. Aside from the author’s frustrating focus on literature and boring personal drama movies/books, it seems like it could be a beneficial exercise, just done with a movie in my genre.
But when was the last time I watched a movie in my genre? Or anything other than a kids movie? I can’t even remember.