Go with the flow

Ego always seems to get in the way for anyone living in the material world. I'm no exception. as we continue to move forward on our film, creative differences abound. As the writer, I'm called upon to resolve the differences, so people ask, "What are we doing tomorrow?" Or, "How does this dialogue move the story." "What's the character arc," etc. Since we're really working on a documentary, there isn't much character arc, still I've been told to script the dialogue. Later characters are removed, replaced by other characters, the scenario changes from documentary to reality tv to gangster movie, to horror movie and back to documentary. I've been rolling with the punches as much as I possible can, but sometimes I just can't do it. I'm about as close to complete burnout as I could be. But when my friends saw me packing my bags this morning, determined to disappear forever, they cajoled me back to work, changed the premise, rewrote the scenes, and now, strangely we're back to the original script. I hope it's going to work.

Sometimes it's best to just go with the flow.

But I've always been someone to swim upstream against the current.