Last week I averaged at 1117.5 words per day which is actually past my target. Yay! Numbers aside, I've written a fair few first draft character profiles for my teleplay pilot for Screnzy and also a near full treatment for a short film that I'm gonna carry over to Screnzy as well. In fact, I hammered out about three scene by scene treatments for that one. I'll spill the beans for that one maybe in a few weeks' time 'cause I wanna see where I can go with it in the near future.
Though for the past couple of days I've only really managed to just brush past my target as you can see up there. I have a rule where once it hits midnight, that's a new day. I mean, it officially is but I do want to try to be strict with myself there. So in other words, if I haven't hit my word quota by midnight, tough. I stop as soon as it hits twelve, record the total for the day in the spreadsheet then start the count from zero for the new day before I continue writing.
Anyway, what I want to start doing is to try to organise exactly what I'll be writing each day and maybe even knock a day off for each week to set aside for reading and/or research. That said, if I can manage to trail myself up out of bed before midday again, that'll certainly help my routine! So yeah. Timetabling my routine a bit more. I'll still have the word quota of course and whatever I write for the day will go straight in there, including anything I write in a blog post.
The reason for this is that I've been finding myself stumped a lot for what to write next. I certainly don't want to cave into writer's block; no way, not now, not ever, thank you very much. I feel as though organising generally what I'll be writing will be a good idea to try and ward it off a bit better and to give me something to meditate on so I'm not just twiddling my thumbs or sitting 'liking' pictures of Siberian Husky and German Shepherd puppies on Facebook instead of actual writing things down or typing them up, whichever the case may be. As I said in the previous paragraph, I might even knock a day off so I can read and research.
Lack of research is actually, I've found, something that bothers me while I'm trying to write. For example, my teleplay for the Screnzy project is set in various periods. How can I write about something I know nothing about? A general rule of thumb for writing is to write what you know but also to just write. I think in this case though you should probably be best doing your research first. That and giving myself the time to watch some more television programmes to see how they're structured so my writing is better informed (I am a terrible Film & TV student for the sheer amount I haven't watched). Know your medium and your work station and all that jazz.
Blog-wise especially I think I'll need to decide what I'll be writing a fair bit in advance so it's not just a complete rambling mess. I'd like to do analyses 'cause they're always interesting. I suppose for my feature article for my Critic/Film Studies module my seminar lecturer said I had about three strong enough ideas that I could have taken up so I've got something to work from there at least! With that, I think I should start labelling the posts as journals, an analysis, idea development, etc., so I'll start with this one. Actually, thinking about it, I can go back and edit the others, haha.
Now, if you're one of the oh so lucky folks who follows me on Twitter, you'll know I haven't actually slept and I'm somehow still awake (the playlist honestly helps actually) so I'm probably best off now. See you Sunday!
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