A Juggling Act

We all know that life is a juggling act: there's work, friends, family, and on. Throw into this grand mix the writing projects you have on the side and the juggling act can feel like a whirlwind.

What makes The Script Sages' juggling act feel like whirlwind at the moment is the types of projects we are working on. As we press forward on a rewrite of our sweeping, historic epic, we've also taken on a far different project. The Sages have recently been hired to work on a web series--or "webisodes" to use the correct jargon. We're not at liberty to disclose too many details about the project, but it's a fun concept set in Boston which would see five episodes a week, each lasting 4-5 minutes.

As to the juggling act, well, one can imagine the challenge of moving back and forth between the large canvas of a Civil War-era screenplay, a la "Glory," which would be bound for the big screen of a movie theater, and the very confined space of a story that would be seen entirely on a computer screen (or even an I-Phone or Blackberry).

Instead of juggling three tennis balls, this could be more like keeping aloft a basketball, a trash can lid, and a pineapple.

Many writers face these same situations, and if there's any advice we can impart it's to keep multiple projects going. You never know when one particular project will lose steam, and if all your eggs are in that basket then you can suddenly find yourself with quite an empty basket. So keep the juggling act going, even if it feels precarious at times.

-Randy