I've been getting that classic nagging feeling that (I imagine) all writers get, in some sort of patterned recurrence -- like a toxic circadian rhythm. A dread sinusoidal schedule. That feeling that sneaks up on you after blocks of productivity have passed and you've just been idly enjoying our life. That feeling: you're not writing enough, you're not thinking enough, not noticing enough. It's the sort of insecurity that can always feel true, regardless of how busy or idle you really are -- but currently, I'm trying to harness the feeling as a catalyst to fill my schedule with new projects rather than just freeze me up. It's true that my schedule is more wide open than it has been in a long time. I wrapped my work as writers' assistant on the Netflix limited, UNBELIEVABLE, and got married and went on my honeymoon. I finished co-writing a feature with a friend which, after three revisions, is finally being taken out this week. I developed a scripted series for a digital company that is not moving forward with it. So, it's a lot of things that have tidily wrapped up one way or another. I'm searching and applying for new writers' assistant work but my hope is that the particular showrunner I know that I want to work for will have her new show greenlit soon - she said she'd hire mire as WA. So really, a lot of things don't require active energy (unless things get desperate and the new show falls off the horizon) -- otherwise, it's an open slate for writing these days. My goal to fill it as much as I can, and currently I'm feeling that a diversity of projects of different mediums will be more fun and more productive. There's a sociology theorist and economist whose name I'm forgetting (was it Keynes?) who asserted that people couldn't successfully work on the exact same task all day long, their brains wouldn't allow the focus. Ideal work needed to be broken up with breaks of course, but also with a variety of jobs. Now, technically if you're writing all day then you're sort of rebelling against this theory -- but the stages of writing can be different enough (research, character backstory and brainstorming, drafting, editing, etc.) that perhaps it'll work. My current thought: (early AM) write website post, (AM) research/draft video essay texts (need to prioritize the one upfront paid gig ;), (early PM) work on series document for BIG SKY COUNTRY, (late PM) work on novel (a new idea that I've just started drafting). We'll see how it goes...
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