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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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[info]smile_with_soul on August 5th, 2009 06:44 pm (UTC)
Everyone can be very interesting. And this journals might take a while to get used to, but they're really fun. You meet a lot of people you wouldn't otherwise.

And it's very nice to meet you Shikamaru, I'm Hinata. I work at the spa, and I look forward to hearing more from you. I don't think you wasted anyone's time at all.
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Shikamaru Nara: leather jacket[info]unmotivated on August 6th, 2009 12:28 am (UTC)
Yeah, but it's still a pain to do it.

I just get the feeling that no-one wants to read the grumblings of an uninteresting junior script writer. But it's nice to meet you too Hinata.
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[info]smile_with_soul on August 6th, 2009 03:13 am (UTC)
Maybe it'll get less painful as time goes on? You might get used to it.

You'd be surprised, I think. There a lot of nice interesting people who are pretty friendly. If anything, it will help people appreciate what writers do.
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Shikamaru Nara: the boy wears gap[info]unmotivated on August 7th, 2009 09:12 am (UTC)
I guess that's one way of looking at it, thanks. Maybe I can get ideas off people too.
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[info]smile_with_soul on August 7th, 2009 07:13 pm (UTC)
Mhm! And the people here would be a great resource. Maybe you could ask them instead of borrowing books and getting odd looks.
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Shikamaru Nara: chillax[info]unmotivated on August 8th, 2009 04:01 pm (UTC)
Anything would be better than going back to the restricted section again. Thanks, I'll give it a try.
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[info]smile_with_soul on August 8th, 2009 06:45 pm (UTC)
You're welcome.
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