Right in the thick of it
Welcome to another edition of the Fred&Dan Blog! Our mission with Fred&Dan Productions and this blog has always been to make people think in ways they’ve never done before - to spark creativity and facilitate conversation in unconventional ways. A place where you can open up your email and have a bit of creativity to take with you into your day or week!
Over at Fred&Dan we’re in the middle of writing scripts, producing (strike approved) projects, dealing with a double strike, and oh yeah, life!
Not much to update on the strike fronts. Both actors and writers have been getting the silent treatment from AMPTP but the unions are holding strong and the members are rallying. We love to see big names like Dwayne Johnson donating to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund to help struggling actors during this time of lockout.
At Fred&Dan, we both tend to find the middle to be arduous. Dare I say, the hardest part of our various projects. This can even be the moment where you abandon all your work because the magical dust of “starting” has settled.
This week we wanted to slide into your inbox with a prompt. This prompt is not just for those of you who are working on a creative project, but this is for anyone who wants to take a moment to think differently. You may want to write about it, draw it out, or even create a multimedia collage to sort through your thoughts (we hope you send us any and all thoughts or prompt answers).
There is comfort in the middle if you allow it. A place where you settle into the rhythm and flow of your own personal system. That too has a darkside, boredom.
Where in your life have you gotten so comfortable that you’ve hit boredom? What got you to this point? Why had you started in the first place? Taking the “why” from your previous answer, allow that to be your guiding force as you answer this next question. What is a small repeatable goal to get you back on the saddle and back on track to where you want to be?
To ward off boredom, to find that rhythm and flow, it helps to keep two things in mind, your why, and incremental goals. Small wins, so that you keep going. When you use incremental goals, fueled by your “why,” you will surprise yourself with how much you can accomplish.
Speaking of being in the thick of it… Fred&Dan and our amazing co-producers are in the middle of fundraising for our indie production project, Big Oops. This indie web series is special because it is one of the few routes that filmmakers and actors can work in Hollywood right now during the double strike. Big Oops is a dark and satirical comedy that follows two office lackeys as they blunder their way into making a second pandemic in the hopes of taking a nap.
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