Reporter’s Q.: What’s the worst habit a screen (or TV) writer can have?
Producer’s A.: Wanting to be paid.
And, with that lame old joke out of the way, let’s look at five more screenwriting habits that really do make our work suck. And, yeppers, we mean “look,” because video rulez the interwebs, yeah?
David Allen amazes us so much and so often that most of the time we forget to be envious of not only how much he knows but how well he expresses it. The following video made even munchman buy – and more importantly, read – the book that is the foundation of Allen’s career as The Time Manager Supreme.
A writer who can’t find time to write is even more upsetting than a fish without a bicycle. (Hey, old timers, remember that cute albeit ancient phrase?) For productivity’s sake, check out Mr. A’s website HERE
We thought about creating a department called “Negative Thoughts of the Day” for this unusual look into human potential, hidden and otherwise, but then we realized that the more we addressed the situation, the more we were demonstrating our lack of understanding of the issues addressed here.
So this one’s for y’all to figure out. When you do, please let us know what it means because not knowing is driving us crazy. But remember, we’re only asking. No pressure, y’hear?
At some point in your life, you were almost certainly told to “make the most of” your talents. Perhaps it was your mother or father, or a teacher or wise elder — or an actor who played one on TV. And at some point in your life, you almost certainly judged someone who, in your estimation, was not “making the most of” her talents, and was therefore “wasting” her time.
Sometimes it seems as though the phrase “being employed” automatically means, “Help! I’m being harassed.” Or are we all just snowflakes, melting when we should be standing firm?
With the whole writing staff watching, waiting to work, our boss would be trying on pants. A tailor was taking his measurements. When he was satisfied, he told the tailor he’d like thirty pair of these pants sent to his home in LA, and thirty pair sent to his summer home.
Thirty pair? Sixty total? That’s a lot of pants. What was going on?
What’s that? You think that the most stressful environment you’ve ever been in was the high school cafeteria at noon? Sorry, gang, but, truth to tell, the anxiety level there was nothing compared to…
THE WRITERS ROOM!?!?!?
