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Seventy-Seven Hours in a Week and a Half

Seventy-Seven Hours
in a Week and a Half

I will be working seventy-seven hours over the next week and a half, and I have four more episodes of Scene Outlines to finish writing before this Phase of my Water Wars scriptwriting project is completed. That should be plenty of time to finish Phase One of this project.

After all, there are six Acts for every Episode and four episodes left to write. That equals twenty-four Acts. Each Act has twenty-five scenes in it. I need to write seventy-five sentences for every Episode within the seventy-seven hours I work over the next week and a half.

Usually, I would have only fifty-two hours over the next week and a half, twenty-six for the next three days, and another twenty-six for next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. But next week is a little different than most weeks. I’m working this Christmas—the twenty-fourth for thirteen hours and the twenty-fifth for twelve hours.

Add the twenty-five to the fifty-two, giving me seventy-seven hours to work on these Scene Outlines. To put it another way, I will have eight days to finish Phase One even if I eliminate both Sundays because they are only six-hour shifts, which still leaves me six days, or about a day and a half for each Episode.

I should be able to write the sentence Scene Outlines for each Episode in a shift and a half. At least I should be able to accomplish this timeframe. But after the last three days, I may be unable to do that. After all, except for yesterday, I haven’t done too well with these sentences.

Yesterday, I did well with a hundred sentences, but the day before, I only got seventy-five written, and today, I barely got fifty written. Why did I only get fifty written today? I don’t know why. All I know is that I had many problems concentrating on this writing.

Concentration was the only reason I barely got fifty sentences written today. My brother and I are another reason. We didn’t have much to do today, but what we needed to accomplish took us until the middle of the afternoon to complete. As a result, I only had about an hour to work on this Scene Outline.

About four hours should have been plenty of time to write at least seventy-five sentences. That’s about an hour and twenty minutes for each Act or twenty-five sentences for every hour and twenty minutes. That equals a little over three minutes for each sentence. I should have gotten at least that many sentences written today, but I didn’t.

Unfortunately, I doubt I will have the time tomorrow before I return to work to write more sentences on this project. Between what my brother and I need to do tomorrow and getting ready to return to work, it’s doubtful that I will have time to work on this project.

That’s why I’m writing. I have seventy-seven hours to finish writing these sentence Scene Outlines. I’m sure I will get this Phase done in these seventy-seven hours. I may also have time to start working on my paragraph Outlines if I decide to do them.