1/31/15 Sat 11;15am

Just finished working with Lauren for my first meeting. We reviewed my homework -brainstorm ideas I may want to explore/develop.

Lauren assigned me some intuitive work for the 4 ideas that called to me most. I will spend 45-1 hour for approx 4 days on each idea (or juggle) depending on what the pull is.... and explore them.

Key:
not to write about, but to write in the moment.

Who is this person
What are they doing right now

Go!

I have a lot of experience brainstorming but not always at the "in the now" - it's great I'll be growing myelin around "in the now" - images, dialogue, etc.  It is the grit and juice and spatters of the world.

I'm excited.

I'm scared.

Excited and scared (Little Red, Into the Woods).

here's my homework

intuitive writing
about 45 min/1 hour a day
4 days on each idea
dialog, images, whatever.

meet again with coach L in about 2 weeks.

1/30/15

Tomorrow is my first day with my coach, Lauren. I love my homework - what writer wouldn't?

Write down any idea even it's a wisp.

Come on. I wrote down, like, 6 ideas in two pages and really? It seems like nothing! But I got down some lingering images and ideas that maybe could be developed.

Cross fingers.

~Heather

First Decide

1/21/15

First you decide to write. Or you are written. You must write. I must write. I have since I was about 10 and received a journal in which I filled the pages with my fantasy of being a ballet dancer, living in a loft and marrying a Frenchman. Not a bad start.

Now years later, I have been studying important tools that build conflict, magnetic engagement, and satisfaction. But not since I was about 28 have I attempted to write a full length screen play - and never anything for TV.

But now is the time. I have reached out to a coach to guide me through that process - generating and writing material for a spec or feature (hey maybe more).

She is terrific. Comes highly recommended.

Anticipated hurdles:
* Day job
* Real Estate business (which I'm building)
* Life

But. Um. Since "This" is what I want to do.

This is btw: Write a professional level: that means - write quick, to deadline, integrate the "tools" so thoroughly, it'd be like, hmmm Pink Lady Apple or Granny Smith for this pie - go - write consistently well and have multiple spec projects in my kitty.

After that - well perhaps a manager and meetings.

Got to learn how to be "good in the room"
Got to learn how to soft pitch and longer ones (are they called hard pitch. I doubt it).

Stay tuned. I'm going to go through a lot of paper.