Lets take today to get as much writing done as possible before I go have fun for two weeks. I assume that I will have more opportunities to write while I'm in the sunbathed islands of Hawaii, but I will have more alcohol at that point, so it's safer to get a good start now. I'll start with a list.
In no particular order of priority:
1. Work on screenplay. If I can get the ball rolling with 10 pages or so then I can keep it back in the forefront of my mind for the rest of the summer. I'd like to finish the movie at some point, and it has a good start, but pure apathy has kept me away.
2. Work on skit and video ideas. I can set an arbitrary goal of 5 or 7, but I just want to come up with as many as possible before my vacation is done. The month before I go on the trip would be a good time to try out my 1 - 30 seconds 30 day challenge, and that would take a TON of back planning. It would also take 30 ideas, which is a challenge in itself. I can start with a brainstorming session or a facebook post asking for ideas. I'll keep a running list as soon as this blog is over.
3. Stand up comedy. Freewriting and developing opinions for stand up is always productive and fun. I think this will come more from my experiences on the trip and can be a focus when I'm on the way back, although I will assume that part of trip will leave me fatigued and unwilling to write.
4. Jesse Gardner Has Ideas. The Onion-esque blog I started has been ignored after three posts. My bad. Not a huge deal, of course, but it would still be good to get another article out. I set the goal for 20 before the school year ended, pretty pathetic that I never even started an article after that. A post or two there would be good to add to my article-writing resume. Maybe I can get a freelance writing job for some stupid satire website in the future. Practice is all I need now, though.
5. Smash Trip ideas, planning, documentary script. I think it would be cool to write some vlog scripts related to the smash trip. Getting some pre-trip footage to add to the documentary archives could never hurt, and it could help get a lead into some sort of narrative regarding passion, improvement, competition, etc. Maybe I should save that for the end of June. Maybe not.
Between those five subjects I'm sure that I'll have plenty of writing opportunities on this trip. If I land 12 hours from now with pages of material and writing done I'll feel like I deserve the next couple of days to relax and keep my mind off things. This writing and work isn't ruining my vacation, it's letting me have one.
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