Creative Calendar
Free Mini-Camp
Motivation to Maintain
Your “Creative Calendar”
How to Use Every Week and
to Plan for a Productive Year
Tuesday, January 27th, 5-6pm (PST)
via zoom with Founder Jeffrey Gordon
RSVPs will be accepted the day of the event until Noon, LA time.
As we approach the end of January, a traditionally exciting month of new starts after the holiday hiatus, Writers Boot Camp Founder, Jeffrey Gordon (JG), will share his annual Creative Calendar Mini-Camp with alumni and friends–along with a new spin on the topic: The sources of organic motivation and drive to sustain your commitment to a writing regimen.
JG’s Creative Calendar material identifies an unusual yet practical number: 168. It’s not a commonly referred to number, though it’s simply 24 hours per day multiplied by 7 days per week.
JG will break down the obstacles to productivity and inspiration, the blocks to that prerequisite of at least 10 hours per week for creative exercises and writing time (from that 168 per week) to become productive–and not just to crank out pages but to write with intent to entertain.
The bar is rather high because the professional difference-maker is that commitment over a longer timeframe to cultivate a set of writing samples–more than a pet project or a couple drafts of a script or two–and to create viable material through effective rewriting.
Commit 10 Hours Per Week to Learn What It Takes
There’s nothing more frustrating for someone who wants to write than letting time pass without writing. The reality, however, is that not much in life happens, other than the steady march of time, without a regimen of support and discipline.
Case in point: The 10 hours per week of the remaining 70 after work and sleep (100 hours total) represents 15% of your non-working, waking life. That means writing needs to be NUMERO UNO–apart from family life and livelihood–over everything else in life. Or it just won’t magically happen!
Our 10-Week Basic Training helps jumpstart that process and test your spirit to get in the hours; it’s our Professional Members who extend that commitment over 18 months to make it part of their lifestyle and develop a writing arsenal.
The path to success as an artist, tends not to be predictably linear, and at this juncture the path is not as broadly clear to people attempting to teleport themselves to a television staff or movie gig as in the past. The factors of disruption have further obscured that broader vision.
And while AI can become a tool to assist with the physical drudgery, the bar for material that ignites audience intrigue requires cleverness and human effectiveness conceptually, the mark and distinction of professional writers. The looming specter of AI isn’t only the reduction of jobs and slots on staff. For the newer writer without prior education, like the neophyte submitting a first draft of a first idea to a fellowship hoping for traction, AI’s value as a tool stems from a character-driven approach by the artist, inhabiting inventively and intuitively rather than curating a hollow shell.
Whatever your personal philosophy and political stance pertaining to the world stage, the disrupt of norms as well as the professional entertainment business, has presented significant challenges to artists everywhere.
The Creative Calendar Mini-Camp will help you manage your writing time to make the best of each week, month and year. Primarily an approach for part-time writers, who may be juggling day jobs, once you learn how to use 10 hours per week effectively, you will be more productive when writing is your day job!
Writers Boot Camp alumni on all levels comprehend that their early education created a trajectory to thrive and survive the current industry climate. Especially in the collaborative and costly art form of movies and television–though the writers contribution is the most cost-effective stage of work–it’s the extended commitment to a regimen, a Creative Calendar, that will boost an artist’s view the next horizon.
If you know someone who will benefit from what we do, please feel free to forward this email and have them mention your name within their rsvp.
As of the day of this initial invitation, we have three spots available in our Sat. February 7th Basic Training roster. The six zoom meetings on Saturdays at 10am, LA time, are ideal for artists residing in Europe due to the morning time–and for writers with regular 9 to 5 type day jobs. Payment plans are available and special rates for past alumni.
If you RSVP and cannot attend, please let us know. Mini-Camps are an ongoing benefit of Professional Membership. We open certain Mini-Camps to Basic Training alumni and friends in the business to meet new writers and filmmakers who will benefit from our support.
For more info about Writers Boot Camp you can call 310/998-1199, check out writersbootcamp.com, or email jg@writersbootcamp.com
We always love to hear from alumni with news and success stories!