In The Trenches—The Founder’s Daily Report: Day 313—There’s still 21 to go!

Day 313:  No, I didn’t have a meltdown.  I didn’t go to Vegas.  I didn’t burn all the source tapes.  I did edit scene 20 yesterday!  But, what happened was I realized that there was really two scenes in scene 20.  So, I broke it up.  Scene 20 became scene 20 and scene 22.  I edited scene 20.  I really liked it, too.  And this morning, I got an email response from Producing Partner with the subject: “Scene 20 is f***ing awesome.”  So that’s a good sign.

Anyway, I edited one scene but gained a new scene to edit.  Thus, a Day 46: Groundhog Day moment:  there’s still 21 scenes still to edit just like yesterday.  But, it wasn’t a nightmare like that day.  I didn’t eat a pan of Trader Joe’s hash browns and I’m not upset about it.  I’m actually excited to get to that scene 22 in the next day or so.  Dare I say it—I’m actually enjoying the editing?  No, I won’t say it for fear of funking up my process.  I’ve slipped into a really nice groove—one that I’m protecting like a mama bear.

Until tomorrow, create from what you have….a groove to get into.

Kelli Joan Bennett is a filmmaker, actress, writer, entrepreneur, advocate for creative thinking and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Think Outside The Box Inside The Box Media.

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