Financial fuck myself writing experiment -
Part 6
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:
The due date was 420, due time: 4:20 PM. An
HQ of weed...I mean soil, was on the line.
I needed 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”.
RESULT – I LOST
Yeah, I texted my friend on 420 asking for an
extension to Sunday night and I’d add in an extra 1.5 grams if I lost. Then on Sunday, I woke up hung over as shit
from the big 5 year college reunion party the night before. I tried to write, but man...writing while
hungover is just...not...good! It’s like
trying to take a shit after someone slipped a constipation pill into your
drink. So, I’m now 2 for 5. I’m currently playing 400 ball, which is
like...Blue Jays bad. I need to win the
next challenge to be better than the baseball the blue jays are playing.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
The due date is April 30th,
11:59 PM. 5 grams is on the line. Same person from challenge #1, and 3 and 5 is
the enforcer.
There’s a short film that I
tried to write a few times, but was never happy with. I’ve ditched the 8 pages I’d written previously
and have started fresh with new characters, but same concept. Just like my stoner sitcom, it’s something I’ve
tried to write in the past, but was never happy with what I came up. Now I’ve changed the female character, as I’m
somewhat basing her on someone I’ve gotten to know recently; as a result, I
think she’s a much funnier character than the original female character I just
pulled out of my ass. There you go,
folks. Sometimes it’s better to use real
people as inspiration than pull people out your anus.
Recap of the previous writing challenges:
EXPERIMENT 4 - 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...
I LOST...SORT OF.
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.
Experiment 3: 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
3 losses
3 losses
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