Act One. Scene One.

[int. bedroom]

Katie:
No. No. Um...once. Oh, gosh...a 4? Uh-huh. Yes. Goodbye.

Hangs up phone in a hurry and sits down on couch. She's tired. Her friend Marcy looks up over a newspaper.

Marcy:
Did you just do a phone survey?

Katie:
No. ...Yes.

Marcy:
I didn't know that people even did that anymore.

Katie:
Well, I'm probably the only reason they have a business.

Marcy:
They're probably the reason you're alive. Look at you. Starved for a distraction. I'm telling you. Take out? Pizza? A pile of newspapers with circles around random words? This is what we call--

Katie:
--Writer's block.

I've always entertained the idea of being a screenwriter. This scene takes place in an apartment on the upper east side of New York City in early fall.The script follows Katie through Summer. She writes every day for a year and realizes that life is more than punctuation marks.
The second scene starts with her pacing around, talking to herself, circling headlines and brushing her teeth as she stares at the screen of her computer and the blinking line following the words, "Today, I " She shuts the computer. The screen goes black and the title of the movie is typed out as music starts.
And, just the same, I close the computer and the scene that just fell out of my head becomes just another opening to some movie I swear I'm going to write.