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November 2nd, 2006
The key to procrastination is not doing *nothing*. The key is to do all those other little tasks instead of concentrating on the big, major thing you’re supposed to be doing.
So while I have a nice, organised desk and tidy filing system, and I’ve done a bunch of publicity work for ‘Trouble in Tahiti‘, the script has been languishing.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading around other topics in the past few weeks, and I keep circling back to some key themes that really interest me:
* technology and future developments (as a consequence of this web design course I’ve been doing, looking at how people are increasingly living a ’second life’ online, and how the very distinction between being ‘online’ and ‘offline’ is breaking down - you are who your website says you are, or what other sites say about you…)
* new social organisations and the interface between people and the State (the normal three-sector breakdown (public, private, non-profit) is undergoing some refinements / revolutions with organisations like the Bill Gates Foundation and Google getting into philanthropy and the ‘Public Good’ - what does this mean for the way we act towards corporations, our Government, and fellow citizens?)
I’m not going to try and shoehorn these themes into the film that I’m writing - themes are supposed to flow out of the story you’re telling, not the other way around. But my creative thinking time seems to be increasingly focused on business plans rather than scriptwriting. (There’s another topic for a post - creative writing techniques applied to business model creation!)
It comes back to my usual story instinct, which is that stories about power are more interesting than stories about love.
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