the pact

In order to motivate myself to continue writing "Lemons", and convince James (the renowned no reader**) to read "The Foundation" series (see figure 1), a pact was made between two brothers. For every day James reads more than 10 pages, the very next day, I've committed to write 5 pages of screenplay towards "Lemons". This might sound like an imbalanced arrangement, but given that I have no memory of James reading anything since high school, I felt it was a fair deal.

Let the writing/reading begin.

Side note: Update on "lemons". After reaching about 20 minutes into the screenplay, a major development in the story occurred to me rendering all that was written useless. After allowing a good month to go by, while the changed germinated in my head, I have finally started the rewrite. I only have 3 minutes in (1 page generally equals 1 minute), but apparently, James started reading yesterday. Expect 8 minutes to be finished by tomorrow.



**Bloggers note: It is unfair of me to label James as a "no reader", the term is used in a more traditional sense of the word reader. James just refuses to read novels (fiction and nonfiction). He does however read instructional, educational books in a far more consistent fashion than my own.