brain droppings 1.3.23

There's no shame in not wanting the PhD - I got over my academic thing after a year of reviewing essays.

It was so boring: I couldn't imagine doing that to make ends meet while studying, and it soured me on Academic English

I used to think it was fancy, but then having to coach people on using it made me think it was all just shuffling words around. A thesis would be more of that, and screenplays are more fun.

2020 me: would have gone back to school. 2023 me: totally uninterested. Covid changed lots of people's priorities.

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As for stage performing - even 2020 me was ambivalent about that. I was hoping to audition to compose, but yes I sing and play too. My party guitar skills are legendary thanks to the Daktory.

2023 me doesn't give a shit: I made 2 movies over Covid, and now the pro film people are taking me seriously.

I was probably on the money when I said Shipwrecked on Islands is likely perceived as a Blacklist-type script, but tbh I think Weeded Out was the more unproduceable of the two.

It seems produceable, but the notes suggested even my tame sexual content was difficult to swallow for TV. I cheated slightly by publishing the earlier draft: good way to test ideas, though - I'd recommend Ads as a way to test the waters. - I don't want to make Weeded Out: the fiction movie, but the documentary is probably going to eat up the next few months for me. I'll probably rename the screenplays if I publish them.