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Screen Writing Experiment - Week 3 Report

30/3/2019

 
Katie left for Raleigh to train for her 500 mile cycle ride this summer so I had high hopes of getting a lot done this week and making progress! Do you think I managed to get much done? Do you think I was distracted by life and being in Santa Monica?  Am I going to make the objective of having a finished screen play by April 19th!
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Alan writing his movie at The Victorian with a coffee in the morning.
This is my week 3 report sharing with you what I have written, created and learnt in the last week!  Thanks for sharing this journey with me and thank you so much for your feedback and ideas.  I REALLY appreciate you reading and writing to me. 

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The big pitch - 25 words or less

28/3/2019

 
It is all in the pitch!  At Rebel Business School from day 1 on our course we talk about pitching your idea, your product or service and selling it!  Turns out it is exactly the same in the movie industry!  Before I even got to LA to write my movie I had been asked "pitch your movie to me"!
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Writing the screenplay at The Victorian on Main Street, Santa Monica
Just like you do for any business I have started to write and refine a pitch for my movie and I was wondering if you could help?

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Screen Writing: Week 2 Report

21/3/2019

 
2 weeks in LA!  2 weeks learning and writing but who cares!? How many words have you written? How much progress have you made? Have you gotten over yourself and got it done!?

I can't believe how fast the first 2 weeks have flown by and I have LOVED every minute here
Alan Donegan writing a screen play in Santa Monica, CA
Alan writing his screen play and enjoying the LA weather
In this post I will share with you my progress (yes I have made a graph of writing!), what I have learned this week and the plan to get to the thing finished by April 19th which is just 4 weeks away!  Can someone slow down time for me?

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Screen Writing Week 1

20/3/2019

 
The big screen writing experiment has started!  Katie and I touched down in Los Angeles after an 11 hour flight on Saturday, 9th March and had a day and a half to settle in before it all started! Want to know what the experiment is? then click here, if not read on to find out what has happened in the first week!
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Alan with a BLANK screen play document in front of him in Santa Monica, LA
The start of th creative process.  Nothing but a blank screen looking back at you!

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Too Much Time!?!?!? Staying Focused

19/3/2019

 
Recently I have been doing a series of articles on creating space in you life, nature abhors a vacuum and this one is about using that space you create intentionally. 

​Once you have created space you have to be really careful what fills it.  If you aren't intentional with what you fill your space with then someone else is going to fill it from you. 
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Sitting outside our Airbnb this morning next Santa Monica Beach writing my screen play
Have you chosen how you spend your days? How much of your time do you spend doing the really important stuff? Could you be making more progress?

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Nature Abhors a Vacuum

19/3/2019

 
How do you get new things to come into your life?  How do you uncover new opportunities? How do you find the next project to work on?
 
One of the lessons I have learned over the last few years is that if there isn't any space in your life how can you take on new things.  My last post was about creating space and why it is difficult and this post is about why you should create space.
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I didn't have a vacuum with me to do a picture for this so this is me doing a vacuum
About ten years ago I was reading a book on manifestation and wealth.  I don't even remember the name of the book!  I do remember one of the points it makes which is the title of this post "Nature Abhors a Vacuum".  It had a huge impact on me. Read on to find out how to use it in your life......

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The BIG commitment

10/3/2019

 
Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment - Vince Lombardi
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I started my Movie in a Month course today and the first thing it asked me to do was to sign a contract with myself committing to finish my first screen play.   

This scared me!  I have no idea how I am going to do it; I have no idea if I am even capable of writing a screen play and it is asking me to commit!!????  I don't like promising things I am not sure how to do!
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Alan committing to you he is going to write a screen play!
So here goes nothing! I am going to make some commitments to you and I would like to ask for your help to keep me accountable please? 

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The start of the experiment

10/3/2019

 
This is Katie and I on the plane on the way to Los Angeles yesterday!  We had an awesome 11 hour flight where I wrote 4 blog posts and had a huge amount of fun working on my projects and thoughts.  We landed in LA around 2 pm yesterday and made our way to our Airbnb in Santa Monica
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Alan & Katie on the way to LA
This blog post about the start of our adventure in the America and what is going to happen next...………………………...

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Letting go to create space

10/3/2019

 
What do you fill your life with?  It is completely full at the moment.  Every minute of your day is spent somehow!  What are you actually filling it with? 

Have you made a conscious choice of what you put into your days, weeks, months and years?
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To create space for anything new in your life you have to let go of something you are already doing to make space.  It is difficult to just cram more and more in.

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