2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
T-7
Days and Counting
24
December 2011
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Karen
Everett’s Ultimate Guide to Structuring
Your Documentary week 6 module: “Editing a Compelling Rough Cut”
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
Warm
up on the MojoCaster
Grace City Christmas Service Songs
Mary, Did You Know
Emmanuel
We Three Kings
The First Noel
You Are The Living Word
Joy To The World (Unspeakable Joy)
Total time: 2 hours
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Active
rest
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
“Donated”
this time to Christmas Eve music work
Worked
on chord progression for “You are The Living Word”
Total time: 30 minutes
Seven Days –
It’s the Final Countdown
My Top Ten
Favorite Things of the Last 100 Days
#7 Lessons
Learned
As
this 100-day experiment wound down, I took time to recap some of the lessons I
learned in the course of the blog.
I
will recap the Lessons Learned from the blog with links at the end of this
piece.
An
important lesson - “Process is King.”
When
I proposed the 100-day countdown blog, I set the goals low so the incentive
would be to do “something,” rather than have daunting tasks paralyze me. Even so, there were some days when the
thought of blogging the day’s activities (especially when I had not
accomplished much) filled me with dread.
So far, I have been able to make it through by creating a process for
blog creation. Early on, I began to save
the basic log as a Word document. I do
all my writing and the majority of editing in Word, then export that to
Blogger. Instead of starting from
scratch, I can use the previous day’s blog file in Word, and build on that
template. When it comes to ideas for the
blog, I take time out during the day to jot down possible topics for the
blog. When I get home, I take one of
those topics and turn it into a blog post.
If I am going to reference print articles in a post, while reading the
article, I highlight salient points that could make it into the blog. By day’s end, rather than stare at a blank
screen, the bulk of my work for the blog is done. My rough draft is in Word and additional idea
can be fleshed out from my notes. While
the blog does not write itself, being organized and developing processes speeds
production.
Here
are the links to previous lessons learned:
Start of "Lessons Learned"
Who Do You Think You Are?
What Caddyshack Teaches About Life
