It sounds like it is raining, but that's just the snow melting off the roof. In a lot of ways I'm not ready to see the snow go, it's not just the passing of the time, but the passing of opportunities. I never do as much as I want to do and time... well it's always about time. Time is the enemy. My days off are quickly consumed with tasks and appointments and the needs of others - but not to sound ungrateful because being there for each other is important and necessary and I know when to say no. Still time escapes me.
So I take what I have for time and utilize it best I can and often stop to weigh the pros and cons. Social life is great and entertaining but time-consuming and can get expensive. Pros - fun, memories, healthy, self-esteem, active; Cons - money, time away from family and writing. Balance. Always comes back to balance and moderation. Make the most of each day and when you run out of energy let the day go because within rest you reclaim yourself and thus motivate to go forward.
I have found scheduling times to be very effective in my pursuit of balance (yes, I also write a daily to-do list). This has been working out well for writing, early mornings on my days off from work (weds & sats). Sometimes I find myself fantasizing what it would be like to write full time and have this opportunity everyday, sometimes I find myself spending way to much time surfing the writers-boards and just before I do that I wonder why my home page is Facebook because that takes up time too. But for the most part, Wednesdays and Saturday mornings have been successful in moving forward with scripts and stories.
I really want to enter one particular sitcom pilot into Scriptapalooza or Fox Comedy contest, and I feel I did a great rewrite after some great feedback from Romel Blossom http://myblossomingmind.blogspot.com/ (thanks so much!)but the question lingers... is it ready? Should I register work first? I have read so many different script writing formats I actually feel pretty solid on that end now. But will the jokes be understood? Will the characters be unique with their own voices? I have put in a request for Beta-Readers on Writers Digest Community and also sent it off to some friends, but no feedback yet. And time is passing.
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I know what you mean by balance and it is really hard to find it at times. I think what you do like make a list is a really great idea to utilize the time you have to get the balance in check.
I haven't really been on Writer's Digest much these past months and am so glad to hear that you are finished and ready to get your sitcom script out there. So happy for you.
Be lucky you can manage your time as well as you do. Some of us are caught up in too much chaos to even come with a schedule.
I love what you said about "rest" even though it seems so alien to me. Resting sounds like a lovely fantasy.
Oh! As for your script, sometimes you have to picture it as a skydiver at the doorway of the plane flying thousands of miles in the sky. The skydiver might not be ready but, when the moment of truth comes, he/she has to jump!
I'm just saying.
I love the analogy to a skydiver! Nicely said :) Honestly, I sent the script out to scriptapalooza and lately I haven't been writing. I've been crazy busy doing outdoor things and enjoying the weather and calling myself a "wanna-be" and a "fake" etc, but screw it - I am ME!!! And I love to write when the mood fits :) (and life with three kids is crazy busy, but that does go back to excuses and time, doesn't it?)
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