Any artistic endeavor is tough, be it painting, writing or making a film. You have to spend a lot of time alone in your own head and that can be a scary place.
You get filled with this sense of self doubt, you question if you are good enough, if you can really do it, and then the fear takes over. You find yourself putting things off for a day, a week, a month, just so you don't have to confront those fears, those demons.
Its easy when life has its own distractions, your job, your child, anything that gives you an excuse to give into the fear. Anything that keeps you from going forward, because if you go forward there's a chance people might not like your work.
I think every artist goes through this at sometime. But the good ones find a way to power through the doubts and keep working towards their goals. The good ones use the fear to propel them, to motivate them forward. The good ones recognize the fear as a barrier and that they have to defeat it to achieve greatness. They find a way to balance their art and their life, to achieve an equilibrium between the two.
Some days I don't want to write or edit or do anything other than facebook but I try to at least get a few hours in doing something thats creative. As hard as I try I can't just turn of the story maker in my head. Even when I'm playing with my son I'm planning the episodes for a TV series I'd like to do one day.
So now I've decided to just push forward and attack this head on. I've got 2 really good completed scripts, a finished doc, a pilot and the first season of a TV series and a who slew of really good script ideas ready to go.
So here's the plan:
- Hockey Night in Texas - Distribution by Jan 1st or we look into a self distribution model.
- Cause of Cancer - My crown jewel. This is an amazing, innovative, original script that I am going to try and find a good home for. I would love to make it myself but I know that I'm not going to be able to come up with the financing needed to do it right.
- Tapestry - A crime thriller that I think could be made for a low enough budget that I might be able to find financing for. This is a really good script that has a lot of potential.
- Schizo - This is a TV series which I have wrote the pilot and have written a bible outlining either a 20 or 13 episode season. I am going to try an get this into the right people's hands.
Plus I am going to get 2 more scripts done by the end of the year.
Enough blogging time to get to work :)
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I think you should also write a police procedural drama that takes place in the emergency room and the people have relationships with each other and solve medical crimes.
ReplyDeleteHow about something along the lines of a bunch of pregnant hos fighting outside a Burger King in Oakland? Then someone runs over a motorcycle cop in their hasty escape.
ReplyDeleteI know, I don't know where I come up with this stuff either.
I would rather see a remake of Borat starring Mel Gibson (playing himself of course). He goes around to the various ethnic neighborhoods in NYC and just says what ever comes to his mind. You can have a Facebook game where we can wager on the number of times he has to visit the ER.
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