Dear Diary,

I had a lot of trouble trying to come up with a film noir story only involving teenagers simply because most film noir films involve adults. After trying really hard, I drifted from the story and ended up watching cases of teenage schizophrenia patients on YouTube. Don't ask me how I got there. That was one source of inspiration. I got more inspiration for my story when I started listening to The Shining soundtrack. I always get ideas when I listen to that because it's so dark and full of emotions. It lets my imagination run free. After that, my writers block was gone and ideas came to my head from all directions.       

    
It was a bit disappointing when my story was rejected because it wasn't film noir enough for Spencer but that is how film is. I know that there will be many rejections in the industry and I need to take it and move on. I like my partners idea, don't get me wrong, but I just wish mine was accepted. 

So then we had to work on Spencer's story and that was hard for me too because since I didn't work on it, it was really hard to picture what Spencer was thinking. Parts of the story were confusing to me and so I suggested we write a new story. That didn't work out because we were running out of time so we stayed with Spencer's story and changed stuff.

Overall, I have already learned a lot about the pre-production phase. There will be rejections, and there will be acceptance. We will now take all the suggestions that we got in the pitches and try to fit them in the story.

(Sorry if this sounded a bit weird but its 9:23 pm and I'm tired.)