Getting it Done

Not sure about any of you, but sometimes I feel like I have so many ideas that I end up not doing anything: writing, editing, developing, etc. It is so easy to just think about things than it is to not ever get started. If you haven't heard it before I am here to say, "Get Started!" Sometimes the best thing to do is to just start writing, start editing, start brainstorm, just start doing something.

I am part of a writers group and in the spring we all set deadlines and tossed some money into a pot. If we met our ultimate deadline by the end of the semester we got our money back, if we failed then the money went to a big party for the group or something like that. Needless to say, $20 is a lot of money to me so I finished a 105 page script in roughly four months time. I tried it again the following month but only got an outline and 30 pages written, now I have 2 more ideas and have been more thinking about them then actually doing something about it.

Post-production on a movie can sometimes have the same effect. It gets tedious after a while, watching the same thing over and over, fine tuning the edits. You can easily let it sit around for years at a time, or you can start working your butt off to get it done so you can move on to the next project.

I have determined that if I don't push hard to the end of a project, whether a website, script or a movie. Then I will have a really hard time getting anything else done. I was inspired again this month when I found out about National Novel Writing Month, http://www.nanowrimo.org. My brother was participating and he has been hammering out an insane amount of pages and is looking to finish 50,000 words this month. He also introduced me to another organization, Script Frenzy, http://www.scriptfrenzy.org. Now I am hoping to have three scripts written by June so I can participate in the Script Writing Month and not have these other scripts hanging over my head.

So to end it a quote from something I am not quite sure I know where it is from, "Get 'er done!"