Getting back on the Bike

It's been a while since I fired up the word processor to write, outline or do any kind of prep work for my script. Actually it's been a while since I wrote anything that wasn't school related. But that's the thing about life, you go to school (or if you're older, work), come home study and relax a little and once magic hour comes for you to start getting work done on the page, you think to yourself that you had a big day, you're kinda exhausted, and quite frankly, you're not feeling like writing.

Welcome to the last few months of my life.

I've been off of school for about two weeks and it certainly doesn't feel like it. It feels that I just finished my last final the night before and I still need to catch up on my rest to be at 100 percent before I start writing again.

Every night I tell myself, "tonight is the night I'm gonna sit my ass down and write" and every night for the last two weeks, I've found another excuse not to. Either I want to catch up on the movies I haven't seen or I want to finish giving notes on a script to a friend, or whatever. I blame the fact that school has been a burdensome orangutan for the past few months. It sapped me of what little will power I had to write by making me write essays. By the end of the school year, I just wanted to sit back and let myself go a little. Just relax. It's gotten so bad that I stared playing video games again, that's how much I wanted to escape putting words to the page.

But... I have only about two months left before I leave for school in the fall. That means I have about two months left to finish writing my script... or at least an outline.