A BIOLOGY PROFESSOR SAID:
"YOUR BELLY IS A STORAGE OF CORTISOL WASTE. CLEAR IT WITH ONE ROUTINE BEFORE BED.. AND YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE."
HERE'S THE 9 MINUTE FIX HE PROVIDED: 🧵
JUST IN: Riverdale's Morez Johnson Jr. is the No. 9 pick in the NBA Draft.
Johnson didn't go to a prep school. He wasn't a burger boy. He wasn't even the top incoming freshman prospect on his own team back in high school.
It was a long road to Dallas.
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300m worldwide?! Thanks for going to the movies everybody. 🙌❤️ #obsession
This pic of us is from the wrap party a few hours after wrapping our last day.
My advice? Fuck a deck. I'm all decked out. Write an outline and sit down and write the script.
The average script page is 225 words. Four pages a day for 12 days, you have a television script. Add another fifteen days, you have a feature. And you're not done. Writing is rewriting. Put it away for another week, and come back with new eyes. I'm not saying it will be any good. Not yet. But it's a start.
Not telling you anything I'm not also doing.
If you put all that energy into a deck and it doesn't sell ---and trust me, most don't, all you have is a nice brochure. At least with a spec, you have something to show for it. Something you can build on.
Stop making excuses. Rip the band-aid off. Working full time? Toni Morrison got up at 3:45 am., wrote from 4 to 6, and then took her kids to school, and then edited books full time. And still managed to write Song Of Solomon, the Bluest Eye, and constant other classics while waiting for her shot.
Don't have a computer? Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Stallone all write by hand, which is something I've gone back to. Moleskine and Paper Mate markers. No distractions, you can do it a anywhere, and when you retype, gives you a second bite at the apple.
(Photograph your pages. If you lose your notebook or spill coffee on it, that's all she wrote.)
Don't start with four pages. Start with one. Fifteen minutes -- you spend longer in the shower, brushing your teeth, and scrolling.
I wish I could give you a shortcut, but I can't. Writing sucks. No way around that. If you box, no one else gonna put in the roadwork, skip rope, hit the bag, or get punched in the face for you. That's your job.
Everybody wants a hug, and to be told it's all going to be okay, and I can't tell you that. But what I can tell you is no unwritten script ever gets sold.
As for me? I've got miles to run and pages to hit. Keep going....Always Forward, Forward Always...
Happy for my guy Jalen Brunson. One of the best players of the Prep Hoops Illinois era & has won at every level. Stevenson (State title), Villanova (2 titles), and now Knicks (NBA Title). Tough, competitive, & a winner! Legend of IL High School Basketball and now the GOAT of NY
Been learning about money and how business works at my day job and even in undergrad 7 years ago. Can’t even be surprised and mad at. He created sometime people like @elonmusk
#newbies: Warner Bros Discovery Writing program applications OPEN until July 12! Submit 2 orig samples (same genre). If picked: in-person bootcamp in L.A. Begins 1/27 plus virtual meetings. If staffed, may have to relocate to L.A. Pathway to be TV writer! https://t.co/8Z31hLGNxC