Financial fuck myself
writing experiment - Part 5
THE
EXPERIMENT IN A NUTSHELL
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:
I was supposed to write 2 blogs...one where I
recap the most over-rated and worst movies of 2012, and a blog about Roger
Ebert. As you can see, those blogs have
not been posted, so I “lost” the challenge.
If I had lost, I was going to paypal $25 to two people who posted their
paypal email address or messaged me with it.
Well...
A bunch of people did read my blog, but no
one bothered to leave me their paypal address, therefore I didn’t lose any
money after all. So ha! Take that bitches! You lost an opportunity for an easy $25. Now I still do want to write those blogs, but
I’ll save it for another time.
What can I say? I had a busy week-end, I got lazy, and I
noticed that no one bothered to send me their paypal address...laziness got the
best of me again. So sort of thank you
for not posting your paypal addresses as it would have sucked to lose $50, but for
next time...post your paypal address.
Tough love is what I need to not be lazy. It looks like I have a drunken week-end ahead
of me, so that $50 I didn’t lose will likely end up getting me drunk.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
The due date is 420, due time: 4:20 PM. An HQ of weed...I mean soil, is on the
line. My friend from challenge #1 and 3
is once again going to be the enforcer, test reader, and constructive criticizer...if
that’s even a word. MS Word is not
showing any red squiggly line below, so maybe it is a word.
So...I need to either write episode 2 of my
sitcom, a short film (I always leave a short film as an option, as it’s been a
while since I’ve directed a short), or 3 episodes of my webseries “The Human
Project”.
Recap of the previous writing challenges:
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:
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
2 losses
2 losses
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