David Vienna's Blog, page 112
June 1, 2020
While our country is falling apart, take a few seconds of respite and be happy that Larissa and I...
While our country is falling apart, take a few seconds of respite and be happy that Larissa and I are celebrating our 17th anniversary today… Well, “celebrating” isn’t the right word. We’re mostly grieving for America, but… Happy anniversary to us!
May 31, 2020
Don’t you dare come at me with “all lives matter.” All lives aren’t being ended by cops. Black lives...
Don’t you dare come at me with “all lives matter.” All lives aren’t being ended by cops. Black lives are.
May 28, 2020
May 27, 2020
May 26, 2020
Wild Animals [S1,E3]
Peter tries to find the source of the bestial sounds keeping him up at night. And after a dangerous encounter, he comes to a sinister revelation about the townsfolk.
CONTENT WARNING: Depiction of an animal attack and emotional distress.
Barren is created by David Vienna
Episode Credits:
Written and directed by David Vienna
David Vienna as Peter Sommers
[Sound effect credits coming soon]
May 25, 2020
Wild Animals [S1,E3]
Peter tries to find the source of the bestial sounds keeping him up at night. And after a dangerous encounter, he comes to a sinister revelation about the townsfolk.
CONTENT WARNING: Depiction of an animal attack and emotional distress.
Barren is created by David Vienna
Episode Credits:
Written and directed by David Vienna
David Vienna as Peter Sommers[Sound effect credits coming soon]
May 24, 2020
I deleted the Parenthood group chat because:1. I wasn’t using it at all2. With a few exceptions, all...
I deleted the Parenthood group chat because:
1. I wasn’t using it at all
2. With a few exceptions, all the join requests I received were from porn accounts
3. I have a ton of projects going on already and… I’m just so so so tired
May 21, 2020
I asked Wyatt to write two sentences about how he would make the world a better place.
I asked Wyatt to write two sentences about how he would make the world a better place.
May 19, 2020
“Aw, c'mon, Alan. You brought a knife? Really? Roger worked really hard to design the Evite, which...
“Aw, c'mon, Alan. You brought a knife? Really? Roger worked really hard to design the Evite, which clearly stated this was to be a gun fight. A GUN fight, Alan… No, we don’t have time for you to go home and get your pistol. You’ll just have to make do.”
May 18, 2020
The “Write Every Day” MythThese journals cover my life from 1994-2001. They offer a nice personal...
These journals cover my life from 1994-2001. They offer a nice personal trip through the angsty ‘90s when I was sure I would be the next Kurt Cobain.
I wrote in these journals almost every day. Sometimes it was just a couple of sentences or a crappy poem or a doodle with a stupid caption. And sure, sometimes it was a traditional journal entry that went on for a few pages. Other times the journal entry was just a paragraph. More than once, I just filled a page with the word “FUCK!”
I’m telling you this because professional writers often give the advice: “Write every day.” But, they don’t explain what that means and they’re content to let the recipient of that advice assume that means “write on your big project until your fingers cramp up every day,” which is bullshit.
“Write every day” means “let your creative writing brain play every day.” So, one day you might just write anagrams for your own name or jot down notes for a story you know you won’t get to for months. Hell, I even use my blank journal pages as a palette when I paint. (It’s not writing, but it’s creative work and that counts, damn it.)
Rather than force yourself to finish that chapter in your novel that simply must be written, but feels like an emotional slog every time you open the file, allow yourself to write whatever the fuck you feel like writing (or, dare I suggest, even skip a day of that daily writing all together). You’re still doing the work, you’re still exercising and strengthening that part of you that needs to write.
Writing isn’t always fun, so there’s no reason to put additional pressure on yourself to maintain a daily quota of words. If you give yourself the freedom to play with your writing, you’ll find that when you are ready to jump back into that novel or whatever you’ll be more mindful and more prepared. You’ll have built that habit of writing professional writers talk about.
It worked for me. And though I never became the next Kurt Cobain, I did become an author.
