Yesterday I went downtown to discuss my beat sheet with Krishna. I am now working on Beat Sheet Revision #7! According to Krishna, my script has become belaboured with too many plot lines and I have to really trim it down to the basic story. I was pretty discouraged but know that in the end my script can only benefit from Krishna’s mentoring.

On another note, I won a prize from Keep Toronto Reading! I think I probably won it through submitting a ballot at the Diaspora Dialogues Reading. I won five books by five different Canadian authors and will probably receive it later this week. I always love getting new books; it’s more to add to my library. Very excited!

On a final unrelated-to-writing note, yesterday I also watched Serhiy Salov play for the Four Seasons Centre’s Piano Virtuoso Series. It was the first of the series that I attended. I was especially impressed with his last performance of Mily Balakirev’s “Islamei: Oriental Fantasy”. He also performed some Scarlatti, Beethoven, and Ravel. I probably need to garner a greater appreciation for piano music to understand the complexity of the songs. Whenever I listen to piano music, especially Beethoven, I always picture black and white silent films from the early 1900s where people are hurriedly running about performing gags. It’s my Cinema Studies background getting the best of me and it’s sad to say that it usually ruins my perception of the music as I picture set up gags. At the end of his performance, Salov received a standing ovation.

Serhiy Salov playing at the Four Seasons Centre