Dealing with Distractions

Hello again,
Like typical of my workload, once I finish something, some other opportunity comes along which I take part of. So now I have an animation test to work on for an animation company (which is pretty good considering the job search I am doing.) but not so good regarding my writing.

However I found that even when I try to do my work, most of my day is being on distracting social media websites, which serves as a useful tool if you have something to promote with. So in order to remove distraction, I've installed a Firefox add-on which blocks me from going onto Facebook (meh) Twitter (yikes) and Tumblr (soul sucking VAMPIRE!) for an allotted amount of time.

Now I might *gasp* get things done early! And actually work! Eeek...it will take some getting used to.

Also I've been very lethargic for the past couple of months, staying up late and sleeping in a lot. Hope to improve that with programming an alarm clock as well as an alarm on my phone (in another room) so if I decided to sleep in, the phone will wake me up. I bet you I will get really cranky the first couple of days.

Despite this being more of an entry of my personal life, I am hoping that the changes I made will help my productivity a bit (the key word is hope) and get my work done.

So many things to dooo...

Whoo! Back to work!

Hello everyone,

I was caught up in animation work for a deadline was coming up at the end of February so unfortunately things had to be pushed aside until I got it done (plus it was a favour I did for a friend of mine who was leading the animation project.)

So I got that done, my internship will be finishing in a few weeks so I will be having more time to finish the writing. Looking over the work I realized that I still had a lot of things I could revise before going into the first draft (I know, I know I'm being perfectionist)

I will be revising the treatment and getting it to my copywriter so he can read it and get a better view of what my story is about- cause I was terrible in the pitching department, thank goodness it wasn't a professional gig.

However looking back to the last few months I am pleased to have noticed I have been making huge strides to my work. I think the reason why my project didn't progress was that I had clung onto certain ideas for so long that it didn't help write the story and end up creating more work for me to ensure that the setting would work. Changed setting, changed story completely.

Same went for the monster's designs. I was too stuck on a certain look that it was uninspiring. Changed a few things, added certain elements - BOOM! Inspiration!

So a tip for those who are stuck on their work. Look at it and figure out what is holding you back on writing. If certain elements/ideas are not working for you -get rid of them, cause its not doing anything for you.

Anyway if things are going well. I will be participating in Script Frenzy in April. An event where writers create a 100 page script in 30 days - think a screenwriter's version of NaNoWriMo. This will get interesting, or stressful depending on the mood I am in.

But what can I say? I do love a challenge >:)