IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY

I've been wondering why I'm having so much trouble keeping up a head of steam as I work on the feature of Unseen.

I just realized I've gone out of the habit of writing long single stories. TV pulses, movies flow. When you're done with a scene in TV you button it and, often, jump to a B or C story. When you're done with a scene in the A story in your movie, you have to move onto the next scene in the A story. It's like training for the 50 yard dash, building up all those short-fire muscles, and then having to run a marathon; or vice versa.

But I'm starting to remember how to run the distance...