I might as well admit it’s another one of those phases where things are moving as quickly as a snail. I exert a ton of effort and not much happens. It is time to step back and give everything some breathing room. Life ebbs and flows and it certainly ain’t flowing lately! I don’t like this phase. I don’t handle it well. This is coming from someone who gets annoyed with weekends because they interrupt my work flow. So I am trying really hard to stay positive and believe that the seeds I have planted are growing, they just aren’t sprouting yet.
The Book: I got great feed back from my editor. I need to come up with my list of questions and schedule a meeting with her to go over everything and get a sense of what my next steps are. I have not even thought about doing this this week.
Music Video #2- Crawling along. The Shotlist is getting there. I have a very crude version of it right now. It still needs a lot of attention. I am beginning to wonder where the funding for this project is going to come from and trusting that something will come through. I hope to shoot in March so, need some funding before then.
I barely started preliminary casting for this video. I’ve had my “dream cast” selected for months. This week I pitched the project for the person I hope to have in the lead role. I wanted to go ahead and get going on this because if this person declines the role, I need to start combing the planet again to find someone else. Later this week I’m going to go scout someone else who I want to offer a role to. I love the casting process. It is one my favorite parts. Who, oh who, will be breathing life into my characters??
Educational DVD- I have another meeting with my partner this week and after this I should have enough to start editing the 2nd rough cut. I really hope we can have this done by the end of the year. It is going to be really awesome and I think it will help a lot of people. We still need to solidify a marketing plan for this DVD. Maybe by November we can start working on that.
For now I will try to take a break from all of this. I want to enjoy Halloween with my kids. I know that things will start moving again when the time is right. You always know when it’s right because it feels very effortless, not labored and agonizing like it has been lately!
So true, it ebbs and flows. The hard part is really believing it will flow again. That’s what you get for being a hard worker. I LOVE weekends, but actually I am starting to enjoy the routine and productivity of the weekdays much more than I used to.