Weekly Update

Again, it didn't seem as if I was doing much last week but for a girl that has a full-time job I managed to do a lot of things that weren't photocopying and, uh, more photocopying. And trust me, there was a lot of that.

But the main thing I did this week was submissions. Although I didn't actually submit a lot (only 3) I did get all the bits and pieces for my brand spanking new full-length play New Light Shine. And there are a lot of bits and pieces. A lot of printing and a lot of thinking about how to write a freaking synopsis for it. So there was that.

I'm still having a lot of problems in balancing things, or how do you get enough time and motivation to do everything you want to do? Answers in 25 words or less please. I did read something on the internet quite a while ago about the top 50 (or something) habits of highly successful people. These were things they all seemed to share in common which astounded me straight off that they had that many things in common but one of them was that no matter what their mood, they always showed up and did the job. This has stuck with me and this is what I am going to try and do this week. No matter the mood, turn up and do the job.
Also, it seems that I tend to lose a lot of time in small increments. A lot of five minute slabs of time go down the drain because what can you do in 5 minutes? I don't know but I think I will have to try and find out. There are so many things that I want to do and accomplish and other people seem to be able to fit a lot more ino their life than I do which leads me to the idea that, uh, perhaps it is me.

I think this week, in an effort to combat the desire to do not much at all I am going to try a few experiments to see if I can get the workrate up.

My first experiment is to use my idle work hours to get submission information for various theatres that I want to send my play New Light Shine to. Because, really, how many times should you look at Facebook every day.

My second experiment is to write in 10 minute slots. I don't have enough time to write for much longer than that and I need to kind of look like I'm working even though I'm not. So ten minutes is a good time.

These are the missions for this week. Procrastination. Consider yourself at war.

Word of the Week

Although it is nothing but doom and gloom here, there is always a little ray of light when it comes to word of the week. And, drum roll please, is ...

Aetiology.

I know, like, WTF?

Well, turns out, according to dictionary.com it is the same as etiology, which really starts to make you think if someone should really be employed to downsize the English language and cut the fat so to speak. But anyway,

Etiology

1.
Pathology.
a.
the study of the causes of diseases.
b.
the cause or origin of a disease.
2.
the study of causation.
3.
any study of causes, causation, or causality, as in philosophy, biology, or physics.

This really didn't help. Shouldn't it be one or the other, or is that just me?

Weekly Update

I thought I would do an update on last week, but last week was a sham! A sham, I tell you. I don't know what happened but would bet a fair amount of money on the fact that I was lazy, lazy, lazy.

I have started two new plays. Started, being the operative word. And then it rained. Like a lot. And the weekend seemed to slip away from me. And it was a long weekend and I know I should have done more, but more was just not going to happen. I don't know why. I never know why, but ...

I move on. A new week, which is now half gone but I'd rather see the cup as half-full, as they say. No. Scratch that. I hate the people that say that.

What I DID do on the weekend is submit plays. Submit, submit, submit. This felt good. This was good. Unfortunately, it wasn't an entire blitz and I am still way behind on the submissions front. In order to get to 210 submissions this year I have to do 17.5 submissions per month. Which means by the end of this month that is not that far away, I have to have 52.5. I think I have about half of that at the moment. HALF! Not good enough. Nowhere near good enough.

So that is about the extent of it. What a depressing update. I don't even have any last words of hope for myself ... large, dramatic sigh.

February

Well, maybe because it was a short month or the fact that I've got to the point in my day job where I lose all the will to live, BUT it seemed that I just couldn't get my act into gear. This is usually the point where I lie down on the couch and stay there for a very long time. But I'm not doing that. Because there is shit to be done. You've seen the list. WOW! That's enough to get anyone off the couch.

So let's go through what I did do this month …

 

Number 11

As mentioned in the previous post, I've finished a full-length play. Let me repeat that. I'VE FINISHED A FULL-LENGTH PLAY! This makes me incredibly happy. And now I'm ready to send it to every theatre on the planet. Which is going to happen this month.

 

Number 1

I don't think I've talked about my play a day mission but let me rectify that now. I am reading a play a day and it's going really well. By this, I mean, it is helping the process of writing plays. I might post what I have read so far in another post.

 

Number 24

Lose a dress size. Not quite there yet but definitely on my way. I've eaten so much salad I may turn into a head of lettuce at any moment. And I'm not eating bread. I'm not as miserable about that as I thought it would be.

 

Number 35

I have begun The Life Project! The Life Project, or perhaps the first Life Project (how many life projects do people have?) is a cycle of plays about my home state Queensland and I have begun the research, brainstorming for the first play in the cycle.

 

Number 68

Dance. Oh yes, I have been. All alone, in my house. Wonderful stuff.

 

Number 108

I have taken to this like a duck to water. You should see my house. I'm expecting a visit from the Health Department at any moment.

 

So, not a complete failure but not exactly screaming through the list either. I need to get better at all of this, which I guess is the point of this year, and this list.

 

Stay tuned for March!

Busy

Have been slightly remiss in blogging lately ... Therefore not doing very well with Number 19 Blog every day but I have been working.

And, in exciting news, I can cross a big thing off the list:

11. Finish a full-length play.

Yeah for me. It's called New Light Shine and I have been working on this play for too long! But it's done. I really think it is done.

So now it's time to get stuck into Number 6 and get me some productions.

I'll do another post to sum up February and all the things I didn't think I did but did actually do ... Anyone follow that?