I went through a year and
a half of writing absolutely nothing. That shit’s fucked up. I had to unfuck
the situation by making threats to financially fuck myself in an attempt to
fuck the laziness out of... myself...with a big rusty pole or a splintery post (anyone know what song I'm quoting there?). Each week I set a goal, I will write X
amount of pages on a feature, or sitcom, webseries, whatever. If I don’t reach
my goal, my wallet takes a vicious raping.
RECAP Of the most recent writing challenge:
Experiment 3 (last CHALLENGE): I had to either write the pilot to my sitcom (22 pages)
or a short film and it’s due on April 1, 11:59 PM. If I lost, I’d have to give my friend a free
HQ of weed.
THE RESULT: I WON!!
This was pretty cool, because this sitcom pilot is something I’ve wanted
to write for a long time. I’ve taken
quite a few stabs at it and was never happy with what I wrote; I kept re-starting. I would often get to about 6 pages, re-read
it, hate it, and delete it and start from the beginning.
It was nice to
finally write it all out, flesh out all the characters, and write in a few
teases at where certain storylines and characters would go with future
episodes. It was about 25 pages I
wrote. I think I’m happy with the
characters I’ve come up with, and I like to think it’s pretty funny stuff. I perhaps did recycle a few jokes from older scripts, but for the most part all the jokes were new, and just pulled out of my ass while I was writing. I've gotten the script notes today, and I'll re-visit and re-write the script in maybe a week. Here's the blog for financial fuck myself part 3:
My current tally is 2 wins, and 1 loss.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
2 BLOGS...
The next
deadline will be April 14, 11:59 PM. I
need to write 2 blogs this week. One of
them is one I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but keep procrastinating and
that’s my blog about the most over-rated/worst movies of 2012. The other blog will be about Roger Ebert. As a huge fan of his, I feel the need to
write a blog about him.
While I
didn’t know him personally, nor did we even exchange emails (I think one time
he responded to my comment on his blog when I was asking him about a trippy
animation he posted on his blog. I asked
him where he found the trippy animation, he dug around a bit and told me where
he found it, and since then the Animusic DVD is part of my awesome things to watch while high collection...thanks Ebert!) , the man is arguably the most important,
influential, smartest and most respected movie critic of all time. So much of what I know about movies and even
my love of movies is due to Roger Ebert.
As a film
criticism nerd, I do feel the need to write a blog about him. I won’t make it overly sentimental, as I
didn’t know him personally. I don't know if I'll really say much that hasn't already been said, but I'll give it a shot.
So...if I
don’t deliver these two blogs by Sunday April 14...
Whoever is
reading this blog, if you have paypal, feel free to either leave your paypal
address here or email jeffching@gmail.com
with your paypal address. If I fail this
challenge, I will pick two email addresses and paypal $25 to each one. How will I decide which 2 email addresses get
it? I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just Eeny, meeny, miny, moe that
shit. Or maybe I’ll send money to
whoever I like better. Who knows? But, you have a chance to get $25 due to my laziness, so why not?
Recap of the previous writing challenges:
EXPERIMENT 2 - SHIT GETS EPIC – GOAL
WRITES 10 PAGES OF THE EPIC SCRIPT... (a chain script concept between 3
writers, of the script being passed back and forth to each other to do whatever
the fuck we want to it). Here's the link to the blog of part 2:
http://thechingofcomedy.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-financial-fuck-myself-writing.html
http://thechingofcomedy.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-financial-fuck-myself-writing.html
WHAT WAS AT STAKE? A deal with 2 people. $40 on the line for
Warren, and a permanent ban on myself to ever try to force my musical taste on
Scott again. That means no more showing upto his house and being like, “Yo,
this emo band is awesome!! Here’s their cd”
And him being like...SIGH..."okay, I guess I’ll listen to
it."
RESULT – I WON, MOTHERFUCKERS! Scott, I’ll burn a CD of The
Menzingers next time I see you. They’re
fucking awesome! They’re like a punk rock version of the Tragically Hip.
EXPERIMENT 1 – WRITE 30 PAGES OF A
FEATURE. I LOST (came up short. I wrote 20 pages), and had to buy a quarter ounce of weed
and give it to a friend of mine for free. Here's the link to the original blog:
CURRENT
TALLY:
2 wins
1 loss
1 loss
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