Lesson 11

[Danielle Dillard]

Vision: To write family stories and entertain and educate.

My progress is going well. I’m doing the 5-15 minute chunk writing style.

[Kristina Zill]

Since I more or less finished the first draft, I’ve spent all week doing research and getting some great ideas for how to write a couple of scenes that were still missing. Fortunately, the information I needed was something I could listen to while taking care of chores. However, I’ve also realized after finding out more about how negotiators operate that some of the first draft scenes I wrote are going to need to be drastically overhauled.

I keep running my movie concept by people, and they respond well to it, which is encouraging.

[Paul McGregor]

Kristina, Glad to hear you are moving towards your goal. You’ll get there! Good luck!

[Kristina Zill]

Thanks, Paul! You can do it, too!

[Paul McGregor]

Paul Finishing Act 3.

4. Vision of success from this program: I want to write scripts that become movies that change people’s lives.

3. I know Mastery Session 18 was recorded about six months ago, but, listening to it, I felt Hal had been reading my thoughts this week. For example, there were moments when I felt I was getting nowhere with my script and that maybe I should give up. His words, “Train your creative mind to think it will solve those problems,” helped keep me going. Excellent recording! Thank you, Hal!

5. What I learned from this assignment was that by setting short term objectives, as these assignments do, helps me move forward. Moving step by step towards the objective of a complete first draft helps a lot, and reduces the pressure of solving all problems at once.

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