Outline Coming Soon...

I'm here in Avalon for another weekend in the sun...but its time to get down to business as well.  No sipping fruity alcoholic beverages for me with a little straw umbrella to snag my nose on. If I drink, it will only be beer or whiskey...maybe gin if the mood calls for it.

I need to finish this outline and get this first draft done.  This downward funk of being half-done with something for so long needs to come to a screeching halt.  The outline is the first step, the first little tap on the gas.  Hopefully I'll just start to cruise along once I can bang this script out.

I also had an especially long night last week, and I began to scribble  some unintelligible notes were scratched down like a manic  and dishonest pen on a lie detector machine. Ken Burns Baseball was completely intriguing. The talking heads and photo slideshow of the story of Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle was the subject. Joe D, a shadow of the great player he once was, still overcoming serious career injuries in his final career and The Mick, the young rookie and protege of Casey Stengel, the man to replace the Yankee Clipper.  In the 1951 World Series, Casey Stengel confides in Mickey Mantle to run down every ball in the outfield because the "Old Man" (DiMaggio) couldn't leg it anymore.  On a fly ball from Willie Mays to right-center, Joe calls down Mickey Mantle on a fly ball between the two of them, Mickey stumbles and his foot gets caught in a drain pipe in the field and his knee practically explodes.  Joe makes a great catch, while Mick suffers an injury that many believe held him back from being the next Ty Cobb.  This was of course the first of several of Mick's injuries, but I'd still love to do a story comparing the two men.  DiMaggio, quiet, stern and bursting with pride.  Later in his career playing with extreme injury.  Mick, a womanizer, a showman, playing through his entire career with infamous injuries.

First things first...