High level: this was an incredibly busy year, just not in the ways I’d planned back in January 2018.
Produce 2 new projects I write to completion- COMPLETE!
Back in January I filmed my latest short film, co-written and co-produced by my buddy Colin Hinckley.
We also shot season 2 of Sam and Pat Are Depressed! It’s mid-edit and we hope to release it early 2019.
Write a feature-length screenplay- lol nah
My workload for producing and for my day job just didn’t allow for this. There were multiple months in a row where I had maybe two days off, total, which is including weekends.
Post a blog twice a month and a personal YouTube video once a month.- PARTIAL FAILURE
Didn’t do either, though I stuck with blogging for most of the year! See above for my other excuses. I was in a play for two months, also! Literally every weekend and several weeknights that whole period were taken up by hours-long rehearsals or performances!
Write 2 new TV scripts- one original pilot, one spec script.- lol nah
Mid-year I wrote: “I’ll definitely have a new original pilot written unless I do nothing from now until January 2019” which is ADORABLE. At the time of writing that, I was a week away from filming Sam and Pat season 2, then less than two months later (mid-editing for that project and the short film I did) I was in that play, and then I continued to need to edit and also take a dang break once in a while, and no writing got done. I basically haven’t written anything new since last winter, which is a bummer and which will be heavily emphasized in 2019.
Close caption all previous (and new 2018) projects – COMPLETE
Done! Pain in the ass, but done!
Save $1500 – COMPLETE
Done! I really needed the padding, because last year I burnt through everything I’d been saving diligently for like two years prior.
Leave New York City at least twice.– COMPLETE
Trip #1: New Jersey to speak on a panel/ participate web series screening!
Trip #2: Hoboken for web series shoot
Trip #3: Toronto for work
Trip #4: Boston for Thanksgiving
Trip #5: Colorado [then Vegas and LA] for Christmas!
Eat out less than three times a week and do something active every day.- lol nah
Yeah. Nah.
Take a photo every day- lol nah
Mid-January my phone shattered and the new one I purchased made the camera sound every time I took a photo and I couldn’t turn it off. So I largely just stopped taking photos. Then I shattered THAT phone and got one without that issue, but by then it was September and too late to really get back into the swing of things.
Talk less, listen more – COMPLETE (I guess?)
I like to think I completed this one. If you disagree, I don’t want to hear it. I need this.
Final tally…
5 COMPLETE!
5 FAILURES/PARTIAL FAILURES!
Given all the other things not on this list that got completed, plus stepping up significantly at my day job, I’m not upset by this outcome. But I do have a lot of new ideas for 2019…
