I pledged to submit to the Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting contest this year after not being prepared to enter by last year's deadline. I was already accepting defeat yet again this year and coming to terms with missing another deadline when I ran into IQCrash in the Artful Writer chat room last week. We started with a discussion that turned into a competition regarding our superior skills in the art of procrastination. Clearly, we needed motivation (among other things). He encouraged me to make the deadline. Ready or not - jump!
How could two first-rate procrastinators make a May 1st deadline? A bet, of course. How much wisdom there is in making bets with strangers you meet on the internet is a whole other story. For now, I have a bet to win! This isn't just any bet. This is a two tiered bet.
Will it work? Do you want to bet on it?
In the meantime, write on!
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Be Dauntless
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
4 comments:
You'll have to refresh my memory.
Tier 1 was the goat thing, right? What was Tier 2?
I'm also not making any progress on the script, this is not looking good for me.
Tier 2 was a pipe dream.
You'll do it! You said you work well under pressure!
Last month I doubted I'd have anything ready to submit, because there was no way in hell I was going to cheat and re-submit the same script as last year with a rewrite job done on it... but now it looks like I may have one. I am just writing it with the notion I WON'T be submitting because it won't be done, that way maybe it will get done on its own time, and not forced
That is a smart idea! Unfortunately, for myself, I tend to need to really push or it never happens. Anyway, I'm wishing you all the best!
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