I went to the eyedoctor again. My glasses aren't nearly as good as they were when I got them, specifically my left eye.
Now that I'm not wearing contacts anymore, my eyes are reshaping. 19 years of hard contacts kept my eyes in the same shape for all that time.
My left eye hurts... almost all the time. Usually I can just forget about it, but days like today it hurts bad. Part of the pain is from the reshaping, most of it is from strain because I can no longer see 5 feet away clearly with my left eye (at least my right eye is still pretty good).
The doctor told me to go back in a month, my eyes should be fully changed by then. Nothing I've taken has helped the pain, and I just want to claw it out of my head.

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Me: Hello?
Voice: Knock, Knock
Me: Huh?
Voice: Knock, Knock
So I hung up... anybody that does this at 3AM should be gutted like a fish.

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I haven't been sleeping well this week. I'm busy thinking about someone from my past. When I manage to sleep, I abruptly awake from bad dreams (or stupid phone calls).
This, along with the eye-pain, has made me quite irritable. I don't like it.

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Tom didn't like the title for the script. So I submitted another one that he shot down. I like the second title, and I'm standing my ground on it until he either comes up with a better one himself, or gives in.

So, I submitted the log-line to my "entertainment-business" cousin. I waited until the 11th hour, and read and reread it. It's amazing how difficult a single sentance can be.
Before I got really into it, I'd sent him something to say, "is this kind of what it should look like?"
Well... he liked the off the cuff version better than the one I toiled for six weeks on. I'd written about a hundred versions, keeping them all but never looking back more than 2 or 3 versions. So, as it seems, I'd completely lost the original focus.

It's funny because both versions he saw say the same thing, just very differently. I'm thinking I shouldn't just post this up here because of some kind of ettiquette I don't understand, but I'd love to get everyone's opinion.... oh well.

So we're going with the first submission. And step 2 was to give it a working title (that means there's a 99.99999999% chance it won't be used if big Hollywood producers decide to accept any bit of the work we put into this project), that might very well have been step 1 but if so, I skipped it.
Going through several possible titles that weren't even conceivable, mainly just to humor myself, I stumbled into the title, "Enchanted."
If it gets picked up it will probably be called something like "King Kamehameha's Ugly Dog" (amazingly, I spelled Kamehameha right on the first try).

I don't know for sure what the next step is. I'm following Tom's instructions. And I don't want to go out of order because, who knows, I might like this so much that I'll want to make a living out of it, so why get used to doing it wrong?

Enchanted will, hopefully, be a wonderful story about a dying man leaving behind two wonderful children and a horrible, evil wife, but while bedridden he discovers that he can travel between this world and one where fairy tales dwell. Of course, there's a love interest there, and a horde of evil, bad guys. And the protagonist will have a big, life or death decision to make to save his fairy tale friends from the evil antagonists.
No, there won't be any Snow White or Rapunzel. It's not those kinds of fairy tales. I'm not sure yet what the world will be like, but I want it to be anything but conventional.

I'm putting a lot of work into this... it would be soooooo nice if it got picked up. But I'm being all too real about this. I know that chances are more slim than a lady's cigarette.
Still, it's nice to dream.....