Vacation....

Just thought I'd post a little to let you all know why I'm MIA. I'm on vacation. Hah! For the next 10 days I will be writing. A few proposals, a treatment or two, a biz plan and my fiction book. I've already banged out a blog entry (five pages that needs to be 8 paragraphs) for a great political blog I'm guest-posting on (hopefully), and now I'm going to start on my other business stuff so I can get to the nitty-gritty fruity creative stuff over the weekend.

I build frequent writing "retreats" into my schedule. As a writer/producer it's tough for me to do both at the same time and I prefer to really focus when possible. Last year I did the whole 4-6 hours writing in the morning and then business all afternoon thing, but found that it didn't leave me enough time to really plan a writing project from start to finish. Subsequently I went off half-cocked on a bunch of crap I'm now having to re-structure. And I give my writers a hard-time for doing exactly that, so shame on me! Part of the reason I started the blog was so that I could learn how to follow my own (brilliant) advice. Lucky you, huh? :-) Anyway, while I dodge mosquitoes and sunburn (And wouldn't you like to know where I am?? ;-) Not telling. ) I'll be thinking of my next post in the mini-series on commercial ideas: A Journey Worth (Under)Taking. All about how to pick a good "world" for your character's emotional journey and some ideas on how to get the research done.

After that I'm going to circle back around to demographics, and I may even have a mini-interview or two on here if I can get my sh*t together and write up the questions. As always, if there are questions or comments you'd like to share have at it.