Updates/Writing Routine
Yes hello. To my viewer.
I have been scriptwriting like nobody’s business and I am truly committed to ultimate discipline not for anyone else but finding purpose in life. When I say discipline I dont mean like being mad and dumb. I just mean being playfully disciplined. I think being disciplined is actually just having balance in life. Family, friends, what you do, what you eat, how you move. I think all of that cultivates to meaning. And everything in life takes time. Anyways…back to scriptwriting.. yes a lot of it. And something I am reminding myself to do and am putting in action is being playfully disciplined because the only one who blocks your brain is you. Just trust what you have to say and say it … if people dont like you who gives a shit. Ive been reading a lot and the most recent book Ive been reading is Harafish. Of course there must be a intention in how you speak but also say whats on your mind (if you can manage do it respectfully.. that is the ultimate art.. lord knows I have failed in this at times). The reason for this is, SO MANY PEOPLE are concerned with impressing others when lets be real the moment that you dont have the thing that they want. They leave, and this is just the reality of human nature. So have fun, be you, and be awesome. Follow what you love to the best of your ability. And when you do anything dont do it to impress others or to prove anything to anyone, because no matter who or what it is. It will never be enough, so do it for a bigger purpose. I genuinely dont know where any of my writing is going to take me but Ive taken a step towards believing in myself and aligning myself moreso with what it is that I really want to put out in the world. Life is truly so short, and I do pray that I make many movies that are amazing like Christopher Nolan or Barry Jenkins or Spike Lee or.. OR ugh im blanking on his name ABBAS KIROSTAMI (love that guy…even though I forgot his name for a sec). I just hope I do it as me and I hope that in what people see there is some sort of message. I know Im merely a human being but I hope that something comes through what I make (I hope it will). Shoutout Leo Tolstoy for real (read Anna Karenina bro), I really like him. Well… he was a terrible person to his wife so not that (which is ironic because…Anna Karenina)… but I liked his thoughts on life. One of them being that people who write for attention are dumb, write because you have something to say. Writing for attention just reinvents the cycle of our monotonous pattern of thinking (cough cough, news, cough cough, magazines). There was a line also that I read in Harafish that I randomly wanted to share that being:
“If permanence was possible, why would the seasons change?”
Anyways… right now this is my writing routine and I am sharing it with you just because if you random viewer need any guidance or want to see where to start… here it is…. My whole life revolves around it pretty much.
WRITING ROUTINE:
Sleep around 8:00-10:00 PM
Get up anywhere between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM
Write for however long you can and just free think it, just let your mind flow (reminder to self)
Go to gym around 6:00 AM/7:00 AM, workout
continue writing after, take nap.
do whatever it is that I need to do for the rest of the day.
I am trying to get myself to consistently write for around 4-5 hours. Im not there yet.. Hopefully I will be (screw you social media for shortening attention spans)
Since Im at home and my sole job right now is to write.. literally thats most of what I do… along with living a spirited life. If you have an opportunity and can afford to just write and are a freelancer… take it brother.
Byebye
