I am starting a new program. A plan. A commitment, if you will. This is one of those obvious "I always said I ought to do it this way" things, where I never actually started to work that way. Starting last night and continuing from now on, every evening I'm blocking off a couple of hours purely for writing. Every single goddamn book, advice column, or pompous asshole who gets to read his or her work in front of an audience suggests working in such a way -- or at least to use a relatively similar method for organizing one's writing time. Nobody says "Just write whenever." Because that's just stupid.
It boils down to my asking, what is the difference between those people and me? They all have books, advice columns, and they get to pompously read their work in front of an audience, while lately I just sit around eating fried chicken and playing Xbox. I don't really ever want to write a book on method or style, and I definitely don't want to write advice columns, but I do want to get in front of an audience and pompously read my work. My published work, preferably. Yet in the past, I have mainly resorted to last-minute scrambles to produce writing, even for those pompous readings. And that worked for me to varying degrees while I was a student. But now that I am an "adult" who has to balance a
For now, it's going to be fairly open -- I won't necessarily restrict myself to working on a single project at a time, though I think that if I begin to lose focus, I'll have to kick myself in the ass to pick things up. I'm getting back to work on the screenplay that I need to get written and hopefully shot this summer. And then the book. That seems to be a good way to comfortably ease my way back into the game. And if a blog post or some other kind of writing work has to enter into my block of writing time, then that's fine. As long as I am writing something, every day. Like I said at the beginning: obvious.
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