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Nine, Five, and Eleven

Nine, Five, and Eleven

What do nine, five, and eleven have in common besides adding them up to equal twenty-five? It's how many single paragraphs I got written earlier today at work for my Water Wars scriptwriting writing project. Part One of the Movie Introduction for this television series to be exact.

When it comes to my scripts they are by industrial standards, but my single-paragraph Outlines are planned out. The Teaser and Tag Act for my Story Outlines are three lines per character. With the three main characters: Chaad, Suuri, and Hoolle have two three-liners. While the secondary characters aka Reen, Voonc, and Kiirra have only one three-liner.

The ones and twos are the same for the four main Acts for these Parts and episodes. Except the secondary characters have four lines per character and the main characters have five. Put them all today, and I did twenty-five total single paragraphs earlier today at work. Very good considering it’s a weekday.

That only leaves twenty-nine more single paragraphs to end the Story Outline for Part One of this Movie Introduction. I should get that done about halfway through my shift. Don’t know if it will be halfway or not. It could go a little over half or a little under, but it should be about halfway. After all, I have about five hours of writing time to do them.

About five hours equals six single paragraphs per hour or one every ten minutes. I can do about four or five, but six can be hard to do. Especially, five hours in a row. So, it could be six or seven hours before I get finished with Part One of this Movie Introduction and start Part Two.

If it takes seven hours, that means I have about two hours left to get as far into Part Two as I can. What does that mean for Sunday? It means that I may get Part Two finished by the end of my shift on Sunday. Then again, it may mean I get close to finishing Part Two, but I don’t quite get it finished. It could go either way this weekend.

A lot depends on how soon I can get Part One finished. The sooner I get it done, the better chance I can get Part Two done too this weekend. It also depends on how busy it gets at work tomorrow too. If it’s a normal Saturday morning after six AM, I should have too many problems when it comes to work.

For the last couple of weeks, I have had several employees start coming in to work at about five AM. As far as I know, that’s not going to happen this weekend too. I have heard that they will, but I haven’t been formally told about it yet. If they do work on this tomorrow too, that could slow down my writing time. I hope that it doesn’t, but it could.

If they don’t show up, that means I will probably only have a few employees show up for work. It’s normally one to three. Sometimes it’s a few more than that, but not usually. Even if it’s a few more than normal, that shouldn’t be a problem. After all, they usually don’t start coming in until around eight to ten AM.