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Shikamaru Nara
unmotivated
05 August 2009 @ 03:13 pm
On the subject of... Blogs and Career Adjustment  
If you're reading this, then clearly you're more bored than I am. The simple facts are:
1. I'm not interesting
2. I'm not a porn star
3. Updating this thing regularly is going to be more effort than it's worth.

I’m procrastinating again. Go figure. I’ve already played seven games of Spider Solitaire, cleared minesweeper three times and I got bored of Sudoku two hours ago. And I’ve tidied my desk.  See, I can be productive if I want to be.

Considering that I’ve got to hand in a script by 9am tomorrow, I’m not being productive in the right direction.

This is supposed to be the easy part; I’ve got the job. I should be able to write a dialogue for this.

It’s sex, it’s not meant to be a Shakespearean monologue or a Greek agon or something. It doesn’t need to be profound. ‘Oh baby oh baby, touch me there. That’s right...’

...God.  I’ll lose all respect for myself if I actually write something like that. This is such a pain in the ass.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful that I’m here and I’ve got a job, but...  did it have to be on a script for a film called ‘Busty the Vampire Layer?’ What do they expect from me? Terrible puns about stakes going into places that they shouldn’t? How do you write an entertaining dialogue when the movie’s tagline is ‘It’s not just Dracula who’s good at sucking?’

Man. I'm going to have to go get another hardcore book out of the library. I'm already getting weird looks from the old lady behind the desk; she thinks I'm a pervert, I just know it.

I'm not by the way. I'm doing research. I'm Shikamaru, and I'm meant to be a writer here for those of you who are still reading and wondering who just wasted these last five minutes of your life.





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Shikamaru Nara: hmm...[info]unmotivated on August 6th, 2009 12:25 am (UTC)
Thanks, I think.

I am thinking of the puns. I just can't put "Impale me, Vlad" into dialogue and keep my self-respect.I don't even know why I'm bothering with a script, the stupid thing will probably get shut down before you can say 'copyright infringement.'
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[info]nudityonlegs on August 6th, 2009 04:35 am (UTC)
Take it however ya want.

Nah, they did a Charlie Brown musical and fucked it all up to hell. They put Lucy in an insane asylum and all they had to do was tweak the names a bit. You'll be fine. And hey, you're in a porn company. Kinda says a bit about your self-respect, since ya don't seem like a perv. Though 'impale me Vlad' is just a tad bit better than, 'I'm gonna stick you with my woody'. Just saying. It can always be worse.
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Shikamaru Nara: how did i end up in this mess?[info]unmotivated on August 7th, 2009 09:04 am (UTC)
I know they can be worse; I just went through some of the old scripts that my predecessor left. That's twenty minutes of my life that I'll never get back again. It's just too troublesome to try and come up with words that are arousing to both sexes, you know?
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[info]nudityonlegs on August 7th, 2009 09:20 am (UTC)
Yeah? What was in it? Anything interesting?

And I hear ya. But maybe you're thinking too hard about it. You say a word and someone somewhere will probably think it's hot. Like key lime pie. No joke, I knew a chick who went crazy for that word. It was ridiculous. So don't sweat it. Just write and try to maintain dignity.
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Shikamaru Nara[info]unmotivated on August 7th, 2009 10:35 am (UTC)
Considering that it was called 'Winnie the Poo' and was about a woman called Winifred who was liked to take a dump on the men she slept with, no. It wasn't. And my childhood memories have been irreparably defiled. I'm glad it never got made.

Thanks for the tip.
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[info]nudityonlegs on August 7th, 2009 07:22 pm (UTC)
Hah, seriously? That's kinda genius when you think about it. It takes a lot of guts to go perverting childhood memories.

So then what kinda scripts are you writing then? You get to write your own or you just trying to patch up the nasty ones? And am I going to have to hide my childhood from you?
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Shikamaru Nara: peekaboo[info]unmotivated on August 8th, 2009 03:51 pm (UTC)
I don't think guts is what that guy had. Mental issues seems to be a better name for it.

I just get given what no-one else wants to touch with a ten foot pole. Being the new boy is pretty much the same as being the whipping boy here. I don't want to have to write any nasty shit that means people have to bleach their brains after watching it.
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[info]nudityonlegs on August 8th, 2009 06:18 pm (UTC)
Yeah well, that seems like a given around here. I'm guessing you haven't met a lot of people who work here.

Sucks man, why write that stuff if no one wants to touch it? But who knows, maybe you'll be able to make something good. Or just make sure no one vomits.

So you don't actually write much and you just edit someone else's stuff for right now then?
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