Dear R,
after months of avoidance, I finally started to work on my script yesterday. Although subconsciously I always know it's going to be difficult, but not until yesterday did I realize how enormous this task is. It's like trying to rebuild a wholly collapsed building with only some bricks on hand. The news about this musician I'm writing about is so few on newspapers, and what's worse is that I don't have my laptop with me, so if I need the internet to do some research, I have to do it at home, also known as the place that absorbs all my enthusiasm and makes me just want to lie in my bed and watch some crappy TV programs.
I know it's just the beginning. There will be much more information I need to find out to ensure that my script stays faithfully to what really happened, and that's the most important thing to me now. Today I sat in a coffee shop. It took me four hours to write the first scene in the script and it occurred to me that I should try to feel the atmosphere of 20 years ago. So I went to the National Central Library to search for newspapers of 20 years ago. I wanted to be familiar with the background at that time. Maybe that can help me understand my character's struggles. Besides, I need to know more about everyone involved. If this script really has a chance to be finished and becomes a film, I hope that people who actually know this musician would not only think that I did a decent job, but also be touched by his life story and his music.
