Sunday recap: The End of Love

OK, so it's Sunday. And I'll begin a habit of recapping the week. Work, love-life and all the rest in between.

This week has been about my web presence. Getting the blog up and running. Tuning my applications for optimal browsing and stuff like that. Getting into the habit. And then it has been work. I'm reading two projects at the time being.

Constantine Giannaris' new film, which is so far titled "Welcome Aboard". I do a little experiment of surveying how that title sits with people by using a poll on this blog. Giannaris and I have been working on and off with the script since august 07. Before that he has worked with it for, what? 2-3 years I think. It's becoming more and more tight and it's a really good process. My role is as a collaborative consultant. It means I'm not really a writer, but also that I'm not 'just' a consultant. It's in between, with a lot of hands on and concrete, detailed suggestions to Giannaris, it's on all level of the process - discussing the major idea(s) propelling the story, incorporating the fruit of those discussion in detail - it's editing, trying to cut not-so-necessary stuff, re-arranging material for greater effect and so on.

And then a new project has landed on my desk. "The Mountain", which I have been invited to write for a Greek director, whose name I don't really remember yet - George or Yorgos something. The boss of Highway Filmproductions, Yorgos Lykardopoulos, tells me he is talented and has made a very good short film. They've had other scriptwriters on the project, but none of them have been satisfactory for the director. He is clear about the fact, that he doesn't want to write himself - which is good because it makes the rules of collaboration well defined. The idea is his and according to Lykardopoulos he is very flexible about it - maybe this is a problem. Sometimes, although its very rare, people are too flexible, which means it's very hard to find out what satisfy them, and so you can continue doing rewrites. Anyway, it's too soon to pass any judgments on this project. All I want to say now is: It's a kind of supernatural psychological thriller. I'm meeting the director in the coming week to find out what the core of his mountain-idea is. And if we can develop a working chemistry.

On the personal level the week hasn't been too bad, relatively. It is the first week after me and my girlfriend broke up (again - but this time it seems final). I catch myself almost sending her a sms to share a feeling or experience or thought and then I realize that we have broken up. I feel awful lonely at moments and miss her intensely. And she is very adamant of cutting the connection completely. I'm more a softy, who wouldn't mind a little ongoing post-break-up contact. Well, I try not to think about it too much. Last time we had a serious break up I was really in the deep end, where I constantly felt and thought about it, and was sure I would never find love again. That this was it. The end of love. I still feel like that, but I don't obsess about it. If it is the end of love, then I will accept it.