a succesful roadtrip

This past weekend, a friend and I went to a screenwriting seminar over Friday and part of Saturday. It was a good experience and worth the driving time.

The actual content was similar to what I was taught earlier this summer, and sometimes in less detail. But I think that's reasonable within the time constraints. They did talk about loglines (the 1-sentence story summary) and treatments a little, which was helpful - one thing that wasn't really covered in the August seminar. Some of the speakers have worked in tv, which I was really interested in. To me, the most valuable part was probably to put faces to names of some of the organization's instructors/staff (in case I want to apply for their summer program again), as well as getting the chance to learn more about the industry from people who have been there. And I always love being in the writing conference environment with people who have similar goals, interests, and values to mine (more so than in most groups).

On a less classroom-ish note, it was a pretty successful roadtrip. It was the first time I'd been to that city, first time I've chosen and reserved a hotel stay by myself, and it all turned out fine. My friend and I only got lost briefly because we misinterpreted the Google directions. And that helped us find where our hotel would be that night anyway, so it wasn't a total waste of time. It was nice how close together everything was. But I will say the free continental breakfast wasn't so awesome. Maybe we should have made time to go to Starbucks instead.