Shifting Shrifa.
I have become an accomplished Procrastinator. How long is it since I wrote: 'Buzzing with energy, I'm ready to restart writing my screenplay ?' It's been a month, if not more. Having decided to rename Rachel (my main character) Shifra , an avalanche of exciting new ideas and people rushed into my life. They mostly arrived via the Internet. My imagination was fired, but the screen play became like a damp squib. More graphically, like a box of sodden fireworks. When the surge of new ideas and mind opening information subsided, everything regarding the screenplay went blank and then mute. Every time I sat down to write, I was plagued by a dreadful feeling I simply couldn't do this anymore. I felt empty, perplexed,then completely discouraged. My bare bones Pitch, this is the film's storyline in the briefest possible synopsis, omits all the interesting bits I feel give the screenplay it's specialness. The Pitch: A young talented Jewish (disinherited...