Biographical Insightful Things

So lunch with Dan didn’t happen. Dan called and canceled, said he didn’t get a chance to read the script. Which is fine anyway. The meeting was contingent upon weather or not Dan would get a chance to read the script. I started Tuesday, and used yesterday, working on the Character sketches for the film. I’m taking each character in the film and writing a sort of half a page biographical insightful thing. It’s good so that when I go back through draft three to fix some plot holes I can hone down just who my characters are and fix and rearrange their dialogue. Most writers do what I did first and then write the screenplay with a general plot in mind. I wrote the plot with general ideas for the characters and am now kind of back tracking. I’m having a lot of fun because I get to figure out just why these people made the choices they’ve made so far in the screenplay. So far I like this process a lot. I’ve done 7 of the main character. Aric, Matt, Mike, Jeff, Jason, Alaska, and Officer Navarro. I’m gonna try and do 4 or 5 more today. I’ve got 28 to do. I’ve only got about 15 main characters in the story but I want to make sure I know who the info desk guy is. I wanna know where Alaska’s Sorority Sister, Kelly, comes from. I want to know why the RA, Melissa, is so skittish. I’m playing around with the idea of giving these little Biographical Insightful Things to the actors once their cast to help them understand their characters better. Or maybe I’ll just keep them for m e and use them when I’m directing them on the set or helping the actors develop the characters of set.