Quantum Tornados of Hypothetical Moments

This is the second installment in the saga of my Script Frenzy 2008 script. You can read the first installment here.

This week my writing partner Sarah and I discovered why Week One was so full of wonderment and high fives! Just like a three-year-old giddily banging a Lego space ship against the floor until it becomes a mine field of sharp-edged Lego bits, we found writing about emotional and universal destruction to be not only easy, but fun in a morbid-toddler kind of way.

Unfortunately, all that fun had a price. We began Week Two with a script full of problems with absolutely no idea how to solve them. This became very clear to me on Thursday when our characters were sitting in a café sipping coffee and discussing the infinite possibilities of the universe instead of falling in love and saving the world from its imminent collapse.

Though we needed to cover some of the science behind our apocalypse, I was beginning to feel like our script was becoming a NOVA special. At one point during our Thursday writing session, I realized that I didn’t even understand the science of my own script (most of which we made up), and that I was getting more and more anxious to get to the make-out scenes. Instead of communicating my frustrations like the grown adult that I am, I decided to go the passive-aggressive route and communicate my frustration through one of our main characters:

Me: I don’t think Isobel likes Benjamin right now.

Sarah: Is it Isobel or is it you that doesn’t like Benjamin right now.

The good news is that Friday's writing session went much better! Though we didn’t get to solving any problems, things actually happened. By tweaking the Being John Malkovich portal idea into something we call a Quantum Tornado of Hypothetical Moments, we were able to show multiple paths that our characters’ lives could take simultaneously. They got absolutely nowhere, but we sure had fun writing them into circles. And having fun, my friends, is what Script Frenzy is all about!

If you would like to learn a little bit more about fictionalized, amateur quantum physics, you can read our script here! We found out early this week that is was public!

Getting somewhere is for Week Three.

We hope.

Signing off for now,
Tavia