The Road to Rooks 2

Ok, we’re back with The Road to Rooks part deuce. For the recap please read the original road to rooks blog. So D.Y. and I ended up at either Denny’s or Pho America, I’m still not clear on that part. We were tossing ideas back and forth when D.Y. came up with the premise to a story. We continued to play around with the story and ate till our bellies were nice and round (mine more than his). Later that night I had an epiphany and went nuts on my computer. Four hours later I had ten full pages of beats to the story. D.Y. made his usual stop by mi casa and I started rambling off like a kid who just discovered the cheat codes to God of War (awesome game). I told D.Y. that I could have a first draft within a week and things were starting to take sharp. Several weeks later I was a victim to writer’s block because the scrīpt lacked a voice and I was spent. D.Y. suggested that we go to LA and meet a friend of his name Nathan Kitada. I was game for a breath of fresh air so we jumped into the truck and headed to the car-chase capital of the world. I don’t know what was more exciting, meeting Nathan was or eating spicy ramen noodles at Orochon for the first time. Although, Nathan is a great guy and we hit it off from the start the spicy ramen noodles was the best! Hey D.Y. if you are reading this you owe me lunch at Orochon and I want to go next week! Sorry for the side-bar dialogue with my main man. Ok, to avoid the boring meetings and lunches Nathan and I had to iron out the story, I’ll skip to the good part. After countless days, weeks and a month we finally hammered out a first draft. It felt like I was giving birth. I apologize to all the real mothers who have experienced child birth but I was having contractions that made my teeth hurt. I took a well needed rest and the next day Nathan and I were revising the scrīpt. After 4, 5, 6 revisions we were satisfied with the scrīpt and registered and named our baby with WGA.

To be continued…

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