This is one of my mantras about screenwriting. It applies to life as well. My life, I decided, had gotten much too cluttered recently, so this morning I've been hacking away to get rid of things -- obligations, projects, diversions -- in order to be at peak efficiency when the fall term starts soon. I'm always busy at many things at once, the original multi-tasker, but now and again, as recently, I get carried away. The telltale sign often is a stack of library books about some obscure subject or other than suddenly strikes my fancy as possible material for a future project. I've got enough reading to do with things I'm already committed to. So part of the house-cleaning was a trip to the library, returning a dozen books I never opened.
This done, I returned my focus to something that needs it, the mockumentary, and got some work done on it. The screenplay in progress is next. At the rear burner is the cold war novel, which I may get to as well but it is low priority. Don't touch it until the other stuff is serviced, and this includes music studies.
I don't get this over-extended very often but it does happen. It's easily fixed. Throw a whole mess of stuff out the door!
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