Lost Joy

Well, we're now in that difficult part of the term where all the fun of the first couple of weeks has disappeared, the workload has increased, and everyone is desperately trying to figure out where they can blow off work so that they can meet other project deadlines and still have enough time to sit at the beach and/or get drunk on a regular basis. Sadly enough, the place everyone always tries to blow off work is Screenwriting Workshop. It doesn't take a crystal ball for me to figure this out, all I have to do is look at my blog reader and see how most everyone has left their blog fall by the wayside.

In a practical sense, this is hurting your grade because regularly maintaining a blog is one of the requirements of the class. In an existential sense, you're hurting yourself, because you're not writing all that you should. You need to keep in practice, and not just by cranking out script pages (although I'm not exactly buried under reading at this point). If you want to be writers, this is what it's all about, doing the writing. I know this part of the term is tough and it doesn't get easier the next couple of weeks, but you've got to keep up with this class. Make me do some work, keep writing.