Free Mini-Camp: Getting Started
Free Mini-Camp: The Most Important (Underrated) Stage of Achievement in Writing
Getting Started & Maintaining Momentum with Founder Jeffrey Gordon (JG)
Thurs. August 8th, 5pm-6:15pm (LA Time) via zoom
Zoom RSVPs will be accepted until 5pm the day before. Once you RSVP, zoom will control your access.
Getting Started & Maintaining Momentum
One of the most underrated issues for writers is their discontinuity of motivation–and the subsequent passing of too much time between completing an advanced draft of a current project to get the early phases of work done on the NEXT IDEA.
Join Writers Boot Camp Founder Jeffrey Gordon (JG) for this brief Mini-Camp as he describes the underrated achievement of getting started on projects and maintaining momentum. One of the helpful factors is to always have a Story Inventory updated, as well as take breaks during later drafts to work on the basic tools (Unity Page, 3-6-3, Bullet Essays, etc.) on your additional projects.
A Lighter Touch & Approach to Writing and Working
Finding your running shoes or your car keys is a metaphor for clarifying your motivation, even the inspiration behind your idea about writing. Writers Boot Camp’s professional philosophy can guide you to take a decidedly and empowering agnostic view of writing. Agnostic doesn’t mean a lack of commitment, more abiding a calm detachment from immediate results and placing value instead on an acceptance of process.
A key approach is the decision to make a decision by committing to your next project BEFORE you complete your current one. The reality is that projects are rarely completed even as they occasionally go into production.
A common problem by newer writers is that pet projects garner too much significance. And as more experienced writers become more pragmatic, they give over to the iterative process. That means early versions of stories and ideas gradually become different and stronger, more explicit versions.
Throughout decades of helping writers and filmmakers, the comment by a newer writer, “I went back to my original idea” has missed the point of that need for explicitness. On the contrary, the writer didn’t and could not visualize the specific version of that expression. And the tendency to hurry the process, rush through drafts, and focus linear, text-based prematurely until after multiple stages of rewriting will hinder real progress on the page.
JG will discuss the varied fallacies of motivation and the kinds of motivation that will wear thin in the face of the multiplicity of adversity. He’ll describe the Six Stages of Writing Achievement and share a Full Development Method that will prove and illustrate an artist’s talent.
Find your car keys!! Tag them! Put them in one place where they belong and you can easily find them!
Gentlemen and ladies, start your engines!