npr: nprfreshair: Comic Mike Birbiglia on how he stopped procrastinating when he was writing th
npr:nprfreshair:Comic Mike Birbiglia on how he stopped procrastinating when he was writing the screenplay for his new movie, Don’t Think Twice: “I was procrastinating writing the movie. I had the movie in my head, but I wasn’t writing it. But I noticed this trend in my life which was that I was showing up to lunch meetings or business meetings, but I wasn’t showing up to meet myself. So I wrote a note next to my bed — this is so corny — but I wrote “Mike! You have an appointment at Café Pedlar at 7 a.m. with your mind!” It’s so corny, and I would show up! I never didn’t show up and I wrote this movie [in] spurts of essentially three hours, like I’d write from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and the reason why I would do that is because I was essentially barely awake. Because I feel like that moment, at 7 to 10 a.m., you’re not afraid of the world yet.”More from today’s Fresh Air interview with Birbiglia: Comic Mike Birbiglia On His Best Failure And The 3 Rules Of ImprovBryan Bedder/Getty ImagesYou’ll definitely want to check out the full conversation. -EmilyConsistency, it turns out, is crucial to completing long-term projects.WOOOO! -- source link
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