On Writing : Do you find yourself procrastinating? by Kat Spencer

I'm real stumped with Ballad of Fallen Stars' opening scene, so I'm gonna write the scenes I know for sure I want and figure it out as I go, even if I gotta work backwards.

Hi, Kat Spencer. Hope you're having a great week! One thing I can do today to get something off my mind/plate is finish my short script. It's not something big, but I need to go ahead and finish it. After I get done with things on Stage 32, I'm going to work on the script.

If I can get off YouTube...and S32...I'd get more done... lol

But for me it's going after a big project that's been in the back burner for years. Phase one would be script clean up. How about you Kat Spencer

Ahhh, procrastination, my dear frenemy...or just straight-up enemy, but that seems a bit intense.

I'm breaking up bigger chunks of work into small things (and writing a few things on my To Do list that I've already done so I can cross them off and really get me rolling...)

As far as organizing thoughts, I usually journal in the mornings and that gives me a rough outline of things to do or move forward on during the day, but I've started taking half an hour after work to make another smaller journal entry to do a bit of a refresh.

I'll let you know next week.

Haha Jeff E. Gregory - I see you graduated from the University of Procrastination

How did the script clean-up go? I spent my day focusing on my website copy, which tends to be on the back burner compared to other things yet is SO important to moi!

How did it go Maurice Vaughan?

Working backward is a great way to do things! Banafsheh Esmailzadeh How did that go?

Dawn Prato Embrace its existence, and procrastination no longer has to be a foe. Sometimes, it's just showing us that other things are the current priority. Not always :P but sometimes.

Hi, Kat Spencer. I got some work done on my short script, but not a lot. It wasn't because of procrastination though. I just got busy with things. I'll probably work on the script again today.

Thanks Kat Spencer, for The Elysian Rhapsodies I wrote one scene in particular first because it stood out to me, inspired by “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and I wondered about it even being the climax because it was so good. So I wrote leading up to it mainly using foreshadowing and background events and thankfully it wasn’t the climax lol but it helped not to write it linearly. As for BoFS… it’s officially on hiatus lol but I might do the same thing when it gets its own glowy scene haha

Hi Kat. When I interviewed famous screenwriter Scott Frank for Creative Screenwriting magazine in 2015 he told me one hard and fast rule that he said has led directly to his success: he writes every day--for at least 10 minutes. He told me that some days that effort stretches into two hours, or at the most four hours. I've tried to follow his rule! (Not everything ends up being used, but I NEVER completely erase anything that I have written.)

Start with an outline, even if it's on the back of an envelope. It not only helps you guide, or change what comes next, but brings the storyteller the ability to connect everything soundly.