2014 Mammoth Year Plan-a-thon Post

A while ago, I realised the best way for me to get stuff done is to talk about it. I hate giving up, but I’ll be honest here. If there’s a way I can do it quietly and without repercussions, it becomes a viable and often all too tempting option. And I’d have been such a great ballet dancer, too.

So, this year I’m going to resurrect this blog to talk about writing, directing, and the projects I’m working on outside of my day job. Planning out what I want to achieve each week and talking about it on here will theoretically shame me into keeping it up. If I don’t, please fling your poop at me.

Without further blathering, here’s some stuff I want to do this year:

PLANNING!

• Set aside Sunday afternoons to figure out exactly what I need to get done the following week, and also to catch up on anything I didn’t get around to, like clean underwear.

• Continue getting to office early to do personal stuff, but be more vigilant about how many days a week that happens. “My cat wanted to sleep in” no longer legit excuse. Even if she does.

WRITING!

• Feature films: New draft of FINE FEATHERS, newish draft of GASH PALACE (current work in progress), first draft of THE LACTATING (co-written with Alwyn Dale) and work on a mystery (aka. as yet untitled) film which will need a scene-by-scene before I can do any more. 

•  Theatre: Continue polishing THE ROBOT MONOLOGUES with Alwyn for Fringe, get on top of whatever 2015’s script is heeeeeeaps earlier, lament about the fact I'm already thinking about 2015 and I will be 27 that year holy shit.

• Blog: One a week on Sundays to whip myself into realising I should probably try a little harder the following week, and that it might be time to quit playing Simpsons Tapped Out. 

• New idea generation: At least 3 loglines/new ideas a week, to be shoved in these blogs so I have a nice record of where my head is at. 
  

DIRECTING / MAKING FILMZ !

• This is the big one for me, as my focus the last few years has been pretty heavily on writing. This is the year I force myself to get my head around some of the film stuff that scares me. I will conquer you, lens selection / the line / screen direction. Watch the fuck out. I am coming at you.

• Not spending all of our meeting time writing funding proposals and making stuff instead: This year we (Squidwig Productions, aka. me and Alwyn and our buddies) intend to make a couple of short films. They will likely be self-funded/fundraised for. They will also be acceptable levels of the usual Squidwig weird stuff.
  

CONSUME GOOD STUFF!

• Read things I want to read.

• Read things I can’t be bothered but really should read. 

• Read lotsa scripts. 

• Watch lotsa everything.
  

BE LESS SHIT AT LOOKING AFTER MYSELF!

• Cut MSG out as one of my main food groups and cook some stuff in colours other than beige.
  
• Continue going to the gym and hogging the back corner of classes so nobody is watching me from behind. 
  
•  Do I really need to take the bus to work as much as I am? No. Time to download some audiobooks, and pretend that runners and jeans look awesome. 
  
• Take a night off every now and then and get some good sleepz, for goodness sake.
  

So, that’s the year plan, which looks completely unachievable if I think about it in terms of A Whole Year, but much more manageable in terms of Let's Take This Shit One Week At A Time And See What Happens.