What You Can Accomplish in Three Days...

When it comes to the movie "Little Miss Sunshine," I am somewhat of a superfan. I just think that it captures the essence of the human stuggle in such a brilliant funny way. And the people who hand out awards for movies think so to as the writer Michael Arndt has won the People's Choice award for best screenplay and is nominated for the Oscar in the same category. Now I own the screenplay (I said I was a fanatic) and I have read the notes about the script. I was shocked that he managed to write the first draft of the screen play in three days and about 17 hours and after that inital push he is up for the most prestigious award in all screenplay writing. Then I started to think about what I accomplished in the past three days. I did watch more episodes of Smallville in one night than I ever had before. But you really do need some drive to get going and I guess that is my point. Until you really set your mind to something there is not much of a chance that you will get anything worthwhile done and your dreams will stall while you sit on the couch and watch TV.