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tao_te_trickProjects are hard to finish. I used to think that personal projects were hard to finish, then I discovered that professional projects were just as hard. Most anything that I work on is an infinite time task: an activity which, much like a gas, expands to fill whatever container it is placed within.
This was not a problem I encountered during film and theatre production. The schedules were so tight that it became easy to prioritize a task list. Also, if time ran out, the show just sort of happens. With most everything I do now, however, that is not an option. An unfinished novel does not just walk on stage and tell its story.
Bogart, Empire's Edge, and Gemini all sit half finished in "The Cloud" waiting for the singularity to occur and for Google docs to just decide to finish my novels for me. On top of that, I sat down and played Red Dead last night and still took notes about what to fix.
Perhaps finishing takes a different kind of thinking than I am normally capable of.
This was not a problem I encountered during film and theatre production. The schedules were so tight that it became easy to prioritize a task list. Also, if time ran out, the show just sort of happens. With most everything I do now, however, that is not an option. An unfinished novel does not just walk on stage and tell its story.
Bogart, Empire's Edge, and Gemini all sit half finished in "The Cloud" waiting for the singularity to occur and for Google docs to just decide to finish my novels for me. On top of that, I sat down and played Red Dead last night and still took notes about what to fix.
Perhaps finishing takes a different kind of thinking than I am normally capable of.