So incredibly stupid of me. I instantly should've written them down but now they are gone for forever. :-/ I know writers are told to keep a notepad next to their bed and with them at all times for things just like this. I will start doing that or using my email on my phone. Anything. Luckily, while watching Argo yesterday I came up with a title and emailed it to myself.
In other news, all of these Hurricane Days have given me something to do - dig up old books pertaining to screen writing.
I'm just glad these didn't make it to storage or I never would've found them. I've read the Screenwriter's Bible at least three times. It's an awesome resource for when I don't know how to format something. And since part of this takes place in Russia, I have been re-learning Russian with books I used to teach myself basic Russian a decade ago. (Side story: I signed up to take a Russian language class at the University of Arizona which I famously dropped out of and have no been able to find a class anywhere nearby since then). The most difficult part of Russian is memorizing the Cryllic alphabet.
Also, another side story: I love learning languages. I took three years of Spanish in high school as well as two years in college and lived in Spain and had a program there where we only spoke Spanish. So I used to know it fluently and can understand it still... speaking it is a whole different story. I let too much time pass. However in college I also took Hebrew, Italian and German as well. I did very well in those classes and can speak them all conversationally. I can even read Hebrew. One of the coolest things though was right after my semester in Spain but before I took Italian, I visited my foreign exchange student, Moritz, in Italy and while he and his family speak perfect English, their friends did not so I spoke Spanish and they spoke Italian and the languages are close enough that we could understand each other like 80% of the time. Very cool.
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