Things Change



A moment passes.........

The creature blinks....

When her eyes open she finds herself lying down on the ground.

The ground is hard and gravely, she looks up to get her bearings, she see's that she is on a planet of some kind. She can tell it is a planet because she can see the horizon, and the stars, but she doesn't know if it is earth, or some crazy improv void planet.

She looks around for the Shaft of Light or his Worm, they are nowhere to be found. She is alone, and for the first time she is a little scared. Running through her head is all the survival things she learned in summer camp, food, shelter, how to get help. She must survive. In the distance there is a mountain range, she thinks that there must be water in the mountains, so that is were she will go. She starts walking, as she is walking she begins to realize that she isn't moving, the ground beneath her feet is moving but she is standing still. "How odd", she thinks, "it's as if the entire planet is a treadmill."



"It is."



The creature is startled, she jumps in the air turns around and lands in a classic self defense posture she learned in self defense posture class. She is still facing the way she was originally.



"Nice one"



Creature: Shaft? Is that you?



"No"



Creature: Worm?



"No"



Creature: Who the fuck is this? I don't have time to screw around. Show yourself.



"I am"



Creature: What do you mean?



" I am everthing that you see"



Creature: You are this planet?



"I've never considerd myself a planet before, but you could say that. Yes, I am a planet"



Creature: Well planet, why can't I look backwards? Why can't I turnaround and see what is behind me?



" Because you are in the Moment"



Creature: The Moment? I know that I am here, in the now.



" You are here in the now, but you are also in the Moment. The Moment is all that matters. It's not what is behind you or what is in front of you it is all about what is happening right now."



Creature: What about knowing your characters moment before, or where these characters are going. Aren't these questions you should ask yourself to make a scene?



" Yes, you should. But the most important thing is the Moment. You do all that work so that you can be in the Moment."



Creature: So is this my Moment?



"Yes"



Creature: It's kind of lame.



"I didn't want to say anything, but yeah it's kind of lame"



Creature: How can I make it something other than a barren place?



" Moments are about choices. Moments turn into this wasteland when no choices are made. Make choices and you will make your moment"



Creature: Well I choose to see you, and I choose to be in a nice restaurant.



All of the sudden they are both at an Olive Garden, the "Planet"

has turned into a box of gravel. There is all you can eat breadsticks and salad on the table.



"Nice"



Creature: This is not what I consider a nice restaurant, and I didn't expect you to be a box of dirt.



"Then make your choices more specific, if you don't make specific choices, then you deserve to be in an Olive Garden. By the way I'm not a box of dirt, I'm gravel."



Creature: Fine, we are at Nobu, the best table in the house and you are my stylist, your name is Senneca.



" Nice one, don't forget you have to pay for this Moment, make yourself rich."



Creature: I've decided that your paying for it.



"Doh!" [water spits out of Senneca's mouth]