Malibu Bluffs
Promising myself more downtime by taking my family to Malibu Bluffs park.
Photo by Ray Tiller on Unsplash
Quick jot of what I did today. Going to keep this post short, sweet, and to the point. Got a lot of stuff I’m reading/viewing and taking notes on that I want to write up soon.
Today’s Accomplishments
Submitted to Screencraft’s Fellowship program. I think I have a better shot at winning the mega-millions or becoming a Kardashian. Who knows. It’s worth a shot, right?
Wrote this exquisite blog post, which makes it three days in a row? Second for this week? I’m on fire.
Tomorrow’s Tasks/Goals
Gotta research the crossroads myth for my new pilot. Hopefully I can get my act together with my research notes and write a lengthy blog post on the subject. From a cursory glance, there’s some interesting backstory about the myth that goes back to antiquity.
Prep material for Wednesday’s writers’ group meeting.
Today’s Story Worthy Moment
As I’ve written about lately, I want to make sure I take more time to relax and enjoy myself a little more. Life is short. So, I took my family to Malibu Bluffs Park this afternoon for a bit of sun, ocean breeze, and to let our rambunctious boys run around the place without damaging anything except their knees and elbows.
Here’s the story worthy moment: the park is the perfect setting/backdrop for an intense conversation between two people. The sun. The green grass. There’s benches that hurt your ass. A few play areas. It’s perfect.
Here’s the what if. What if a young couple walk the park while their young kid runs around the place, and they have a conversation about possibly having another kid. They look around and they see all the families with 2 or 3 kids running around and it all looks cute, idyllic. They then have a serious conversation that turns for the worse as the woman (or man) reveals a secret: they had an affair.
Or, we could make the story even more disastrous by having the young couple fight with each other and the woman slaps the man in the face, causing a huge scene, and the woman runs off and leaves the man stranded at the park.
Whatever the story is I like the idea of it being contrasted with the beauty and serenity of the park. That contrast between story elements and the story itself illuminates and heightens the intensity of the story.
