Tuesday, 15 August 2006

Finding Time to Write Your Screenplay


I looked at my diary. I've recently started recording my time spent doing stuff (and not doing stuff) and I've always been under the impression that my day job (as a web designer/tutor) has always been at loggerheads with my passion (filmmaking). I don't think I'm the first creative person to have anxiety over this.

However, according to time, it seemed that the opposite was the case.

Out of 5 work days last week, I spent;
  • 2.5 days working on my screenplay with Phil
  • 1 day collating the information necessary for a SPAAmart application
  • 1 full day doing websites and
  • 0.5 days tutoring (or as I like see it - sharing knowledge acquired from above)
I was an almost perfect balance.

Try doing it. Record your hours for a week (or minutes if you're a lawyer) and see what the passion Vs. day job ratio is.

2 comments:

Graeme Watson said...

..but my day job is my passion

Anonymous said...

I don't have a passion and i think I'm about to lose my day job.