Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Can I Stop Taking Ramapril

films of the year interview: "All the songs are about me"

Hello, My name is D.

, I live in Madrid and I have 30 years. After working as a clerk for several years, remaining on the dole in 2008 I decided to study script, something I always wanted to do but for what you never had time. It was the best decision I make because I think I found my true vocation. (...) The problem is I do not live alone at home and often do not have a quiet place to work, making me the least disruptive and do not give up everything it should. About home I saw that some offices are rented at a reasonable price and would not mind taking one. But, as I do not have money, I was wondering if you think of a parallel activity, connected with the script to be possible, which could afford the rent without being removed too long to write. Do any you could guide me? Do not you working in the offices of any production, you write at home or in a studio? know that's a very particular question that may not fit the bloguionistas philosophy's office, but I keep beating around the bush because I think having a place where they can meet their own work as well with other colleagues to develop joint projects would greatly help me. (...) Thank D. Hi, D, here D Thank you very much for your mail and for reading. As you saw, I abbreviated your query, limiting it to one topic. For space reasons and to maintain consistency in the section, I think it's better to just a matter of consultation. I answer the question on workplace because lately I've been a bit busy. Sometimes the TV writers touches us, as you say, work in the office of a producer and spent there most of the time (usually when you need to prepare the "bible" of a series, the dramatic arc of the season, the rundown of episode or a block of episodes), but there are long periods in which the writer has to work alone. For example, when it comes to dialogue, writing the rundown, write documents, character profiles, or in the case of a personal project, not requested by any producer ... virtually all the time. As I said, working at home is pretty fucked up when you do not live alone. It is also quite screwed up when they do live alone, I guarantee it. To distract not necessary to have an Armenian family celebrating a birthday in the next room. Enough to distract a fly, the wing of a fly or even the idea of \u200b\u200ba fly wing. The problem is that not only is flies. There is another little matter that sure sounds like you, a thing called the Internet. Right now, in Spain, hundreds of people know they should be doing something else and, instead, are reading this sentence. Why is the Internet, it's free. Because, as you read this, get your script, or read the rundown that have pending, or clean the oven or pick up his father's hospital, a man takes two hours in the waiting room. But no, here we are all reading something that, honestly know, just going to give us a few smiles and a quarter of an hour less.

If, as seems your case, nobody imposes deadlines for your work, things get more complicated. You can rewrite the same sentence two hundred times, or postpone writing two hundred times more. A trick often make up the urgency, invented the producer eager to read our work. Putting a time limit, more or less urgent (not relax) but realistic (to avoid frustration or unnecessary distress.) The deadline for a contest, a meeting with a producer, the arrival of the holidays ... any excuse to be fixed a moment for which our work must be completed. ask me for space and time I speak. Why? For if time is limited, the space goes to matter less, if I have to deliver a script tomorrow, I have 30 pages, and that delivery depends thirty thousand euros to win, I guarantee that I will distract a fly, not Internet , even the Armenian family that insists on proving their birthday cake. If there is no time or hurry, I'll distract in my home or office aseptic. Once pointed this, let some of my opinions practices workspaces. These are the things I work (not always) to me, allowed others in the comments section. Ideally working at home: it is comfortable, inexpensive and you can have a lot of reference material at your disposal. However, almost everyone is difficult to work in the same place where we live, as we are almost unable to separate activities: instead of typing, you escape the fridge, put a washer ... or, conversely, you start read a rundown while watching a tennis match. Limiting the time and place of work within your own home would be the ideal solution but ... sometimes you have to settle for more practical solutions. Office. You can be the perfect solution ... if you have pasta. Move to another place, set your working day. Almost without trying, you'll find that you establish a discipline, routines, you are comfortable to work. Will also have the ability to create your own ideal work space, with the elements you need and, if possible, few distractions. Cons: an ideal office, quiet and secluded, it leaves one to their work and that sometimes is hard. The moments of frustration or distraction in an aseptic environment and lonely as a Gift center can be especially hard. Second and foremost, as I mentioned before, having an office itself implies an investment. Suggests that it might get you a job to pay your office. Questions if we can suggest work on the script that you do not remove too long. Ideally working as an analyst, script reader, story editor, translator ... If you can get some of these jobs might suit you best to ensure some income without removing too long. However, when I read your question, sorry, idea reminded me of the type to buy gasoline, sold his bike. What good is an office to write if, for pay, going to work on something else? I know very few writers or writers who have an office (not home) and they have all managed to get out their work. If you want to write, you will, in a corner office or in your living room. I do not think to take a job, albeit part time, is the best way to achieve it. Between the house and his own office there between. public places. It is the option I choose I recently (I write this in a cafe next to a window in a notebook that costs 400 euros at most). A decent coffee shop assures you: heating, good coffee, wifi (which, on the other hand, can be a distraction), a working environment more or less attractive and a decent place to have small meetings. Obviously, you have to buy something, but nobody forces you to spend a bundle every day. You can toggle various and, little by little, pick your favorite. With a little luck, even meet people. And if the noise bothers you, you can get the MP3 music, "inspiring."

Less expensive than a coffee shop and, with almost all its advantages: the public library. Fortunately, most cities and towns have a library with reading room open for many hours a day. There are also rooms of this type in museums, cultural centers, universities, foundations ... Many of them have free wifi and the atmosphere of study and devotion seems ideal for work in a script. The biggest drawback is that these places are usually full of students who monopolize the seats. However, I am sure that, before long, one can discover what are the appropriate times and places to get a workspace without having to stick with anyone.

One of the great advantages of our work is that it requires little infrastructure to carry it out. Your script is not going to be better than the scribes in a next-generation Mac instead of a basic netbook a perfect office is not going to turn your bland dialogues sparkling mirrors. Nor will not, I guarantee it. Write it is as cheap as misspelled. Of course, time-consuming. D, if you want to write, try to. Find what your times and places for it, but do not let anything keep you away from that goal.

I hope this response, although partial, I have found useful. I send a greeting and I wish you luck for your scripts. Scribes where the Scribes.

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