When I’m really writing - that is, buckling down on a specific draft of a specific movie - I try to write five pages a day. (Beyond that speed, it’s genuine cardio and I can only listen to podcasts and such.) I find I can think coherently up to about 3.2 miles per hour. I MacGyvered an old film festival lanyard to hold my iPad 2, and use an Apple bluetooth keyboard. to 6 p.m., but I wander in and out of the house pretty freely.įor the past six months, I’ve been doing most of my “morning work” - reading and blog stuff, such as writing this post - while walking on the treadmill. Until she was four, my daughter didn’t realize that I was approximately 100 feet away when I went “off to work.” She finally caught on, but we’ve been able to set pretty firm guidelines about when she is and isn’t allowed to interrupt me. I work in an office built over my garage. In the weeks ahead, I’ll be asking other screenwriters to share their routines. So, in the spirit of The Setup, I thought I’d give a breakdown of my daily work habits. Several readers mentioned that it was the first time they had ever heard of it, and wondered what other tools I was using. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I use Evernote as an all-purpose notebook for storing random ideas.
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