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INT. WIDE ROOM - NIGHT

A room full of space yet sterile of furnishings save
for dirty-white chairs set in a circle, supporting
people of various ages, shapes and sizes. 

All silent until one man, DIEM (late 20s, large,
moon-faced with fuzzy cheeks) rises with a wave
to no one in particular.

DIEM
'Ola, everyone. I'm Diem.

EVERYONE
Hello Diem.

DIEM
I've been having trouble--thinking. Got so many
ideas in my head that I don't know where to start.
When I do start-- on something-- I stop, not even
getting mid-way. Either I get too busy, too
distracted with a new... thing.
[pauses]
Don't get me wrong, I love what I do. With all my
heart. But I don't seem to love it enough to make
it complete. Ever get that? It's just I don't care.
And I want to care, be caring to the end.
[pauses, then sits then rises up again]
Oh yeah, I'm a WRITER. I got WRITER'S BLOCK.

Truth be told I didn’t do a lot of original writing last 2009.  I did draft up a lot of storylines and some script-doctoring: fixing up scripts to make these more possible for production.

I still came up with good story scenarios, played the What-ifs every spare moment I get but to flesh out the scenarios I came up into scripts with drama and dialogue– that I didn’t get to do much. Cross that, I didn’t to do it at all.

It took awhile to realize why I couldn’t finish writing what I started. The cause could be I didn’t care much at all. So what happened to the Love? Where did it go?

Just after New Year, 2010′s starting, I think I have an idea what’s lacking. Characters. Maybe, I don’t care about my characters enough. I always focus on what’s happening more than to care on who’s it happening to. Maybe if I just could give a damn for the people in my stories, maybe it would make me care enough to see what happens to them until the very end.

Quentin Tarantino, whose recent film Inglorious Basterds recently won the People’s Choice Awards for Best Indie, likes to develop characters first and see where they take him. As a story-teller, Tarantino believes its his job to create characters, then let the characters tell their story and let them take the story to where-ever the story has to be. [Ref.]

So I’m resolved to go Tarantino and work on develop characters for story, characters that I could really care to write about. Hopefully I could end up with a script or two, with characters that even an audience could really care about to.