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January 5, 2021
Deadlines, Deadlines, Deadlines – The Climb #682
So imagine you’d planned out your year. You remember seeing a screenwriting open submission around April and thought to yourself that would be a good thing to enter in 2021 as a form of motivation to try your hand at scriptwriting. Imagine you even planned to start writing a script at the end of 2020 / beginning of 2021. you know… so you were ready.
And then you find out the screenwriting open submission got moved forward to December and the deadline was next week. So...
January 4, 2021
New Year, New Projects (And Old Ones) – The Climb #681
I started on the script today. I’ve got less than a week to complete it (due to a submissions period and looming deadline I’ve only just found out about) which means that January has hit me with full force. However, I’m making progress on this.
I’d like to say it was good progress but I only got 3 pages of script done, which isn’t a whole lot given the time constraints. But, this is a new venture (or at least a writing format I’ve not done for many years) so this reall...
January 3, 2021
A Productive Saturday – The Climb #680
If this is a sign of my 2021 to come then this is going to be a good year. I’ve had a productive day across a range of interests.
Firstly, putting together the structure of the script has gone well. I’m using the story circle to guide me and was having problems with the latter half. But now I think I have some form of conclusion and it’s starting to feel like a rounded story rather than a collection of scenes. Next I need to start putting some of these scenes into F...
January 2, 2021
Hitting The Ground Running – The Climb #679
Technically, I should be hung over and having a day off. But I’ve never been a big drinker and with the year we’ve had, it ended up being a small celebration with my support bubble who was asleep most of the evening. That was OK, as I ended up watching a documentary that will be helpful for the script I have to write.
I realise that January is going to be very busy. The priority is getting the script done by the deadline of next week. I’ve got an idea and I’m startin...
January 1, 2021
The Year Of Being Fearsome – The Climb #678
I don’t think there’s anyone who will deny that 2020 was a funny old year. Life stopped for a good part of it as nurses became heroes, and people who refused to wear masks became people we wanted to punch in the face. We all became more isolated, and FOMO seemed so 2019.
It’s weird because going back over my post this time last year and the aims I had for 2020, I actually had quite a productive year. It didn’t feel like it though. Productivity was sporadic with period...
December 31, 2020
Warcraft Wednesday: Squeezing A Week Into A Day – The Climb #677
Wednesday is the EU reset day in World of Warcraft. It means it’s the day when weekly lockouts reset and new quests go live.
The big progress system in Shadowlands is Renown, and it seems that each week since the expansion’s launch there has been 3 renown up for grabs. One you get for doing a weekly quest to gather 1000 anima – a reward for some worldquests and killing dungeon bosses. Another you get for releasing 10 souls from the Maw (It used to be 5 but it got ...
December 30, 2020
The Script – The Climb #676
One of my goals in 2020 that really never got completed was to write a script. I wanted to diversify my writing by looking at other formats, not because I wanted to switch from novel writing but because I thought it would help round me out as a writer. It would also give me more opportunities if I were to go professional.
I’m fully aware that whilst a lot of skills surrounding character and structure are similar when it comes to screenwriting, they are not the same. ...
December 29, 2020
Tracking Writing Projects – The Climb #675
Although it’s technically a bank holiday here in the UK, it’s been back to work for me. I know a lot of people like to wait until the start of the new year before getting started but I always found that when I did that, I ended up taking a month before I got into a groove. I’d rather start now and build myself up as we go into January.
Monday is my admin day and as such I’ve been spending a lot of time in Notion and ToDoist. I use the former for notes and tracking, t...
December 28, 2020
Writing Priorities in 2021 – The Climb #674
I’ve been pretty bad at posting The Climb of late. A lot of this has been to do with breaks.
I took several weeks off for the Shadowlands launch in World of Warcraft. I don’t regret it. I needed that break as it was my only ‘holiday’ all year and in an otherwise pretty depressive year it was my one time to just forget and go somewhere else, even if that somewhere else was somewhere virtual.
But it meant that whilst I took some notes, I did not start each day with wri...
December 27, 2020
Hitting 2021 Running – The Climb #673
I used to make New Year’s Resolutions each year. That progressed over time into giving each year a theme, into this year coming up with a more structured goal-orientated plan.
Like many, I’d eagerly await the chiming of the bells to ring in the New Year before embarking on my planned changes. Everything started on January 1st.
The thing I found was that it often took me a bit of time to wind up. Thinking back to some of my most successful goals from the past, I’d s...
