Well I can't post CP4 like I wanted to because I forgot my flash-drive, but I'm sitting out here in the cold downloading Whose Line is it Anyway so I can get my fix for tonight and the following nights. Proops, baby, Proops!

Anyway, I did want to let you know something, though. I finished parts six and seven, and I'm at 86 pages, and I already have all the plans for part eight, so I'm going to write it and I'm going to have made the hundred page challenge. Script Frenzy twice in a year! What a way to end it... I'm really proud of myself.

And it's so cool because I'll be *more than* halfway done with CP4. I'm trying to cut down the part count to 14, maybe even 13, so that would be 8/13 parts at best... Freaky to think of, when it took us two and a half years together to do CP3...

After that, I have to take a break, though. I feel like it's the right thing to do. I want to focus on HT - I've been getting upset about it, physically upset, more than once.

While I was visiting the park the other night, on Christmas Eve, I just got way down about it again. Going there was like stepping into the world, and standing at the end of the dock was like going to the place where "Erik" was most likely to hear me. I'd better not describe it much or else I'll seem crazy, but I was talking to him, and I was apologizing. And I was feeling certain that I had stopped writing because I was ripped from home; ripped from them.

But I don't want to be ripped from them. I think I owe it to them. If I owe it to Akira or Cosmo, and have finished two scripts, how can I show Lily or Erik that respect unless I finish? It's getting to be too late, as I said. So that's the start-of-the-year project. I don't need to worry about anything else because I'll be in a script-writing class anyway. NIL or CP4 will work their way in without me even having to plan on it.

Well, fingers freezing! Downloads done. Ciao, darlings.
-J

In which Kate shows up! (Yes, I know I'm awesome. ;D)

I know I didn't leave the comment for the other, and I'm already getting tired, but I do want to make a point of mentioning that this was kind of a fascinating installment to write. I haven't heard from Kate in a year because she's off having issues of some sort and shirking her friendship with me in the process, but it was days after Cosmo's creation, we're talking early 2004, that she told me "let me have him". I don't know if she still has a crush on him, but at least a few years ago she did. CP4 was beginning to be planned in 2008, and when Cosmo was supposed to get a girlfriend, it couldn't have been clearer who it was going to be. I've been asked, even, at DA, "can I have Cosmo?" whatever that means, and usually that comment is easy to be brushed off, but I have made sure to consistently say "he belongs to my friend Kate".

Also, she is personified fairly accurately here. With her aloofness, too-the-point comments and honesty, to telling Cosmo she won't share her milkshake, to being content eating popcorn and McDonalds for half the day. She is going to be rather the anti-Cosmo: the one who cares very little for healthy home cooking or work ethic. However, she will be the catalyst for Cosmo's change into a more assertive and self-centered person. She will teach him to have a little more fun, have a little more sex, and say "no" more often. And she told me before that, unlike for me at my house, she would try Cosmo's cooking just to make him happy. That's a BIG DEAL for Kate.

Lastly, it was a fun exercise in the self-conscious manner. Having Cosmo talk about me behind my back was interesting, and in real life I might be disappointed with what he says, but I tried to be realistic. Well, that'll do it. Part 8 will come soon, and that will make real the true fantasy I've had for this movie for years. *zips lips*

86 / 100 words. 86% done!

( Part 7 - The Harry Potter Collection )

Favorite Quotes

KATE
She borrowed my Harry Potter hard-bound collection twenty years ago. I didn’t have anything better to do so I thought I’d come get it back.

COSMO
I’m sure that there’s no one else in the world for which she wishes more despair.

JENNIFER
Well that’s lovely, Cosmo. Good for you. I’m certain Kate will outperform Akira in the bedroom by ten-fold. And, Kate... (...) I’ve never gotten a direct review for Cosmo, but my husband mentions him nightly in his sleep, if that’s any indicator.

KATE
Do you want a drink? ‘Cause I’m sure as hell not sharing my milkshake.

COSMO
H-he can suck my fucking balls, you know?!

COSMO
And if there were any god at all, he would be more than certain that a lady’s presence is far overdue in my life. In fact, the continued lack of compensation for my solitude makes me sure there is no one there noticing at all!