Writing
I’m taking a screenwriting class right now. The coaching is to just write. I am at a point in development of my screenplay where I have been going from writing, to reading screenplays, to watching movies, to writing things that have nothing to do with my screenplay but are just writing, just to work the muscles. This is one of those. I saw something recently that said people are losing whole categories of friendships. The pandemic has cut people off from casual acquaintances, including co-workers, spouses of co-workers, people you see every once in a while after church when they serve the donuts and coffee, your children’s classmate’s parents, the crew that ends up at the sports bar on Seahawks Sunday, people you bump into at the theater – and on and on. This is alarming. It’s also harder to keep connected to people who were closer. It’s hard to maintain the same intensity of interaction with friends you never see. The co-workers you relied on for more than chit-chat about TV shows are...
